Can someone tell me the saga of the poster known as "Better Believe It"

[Jim Lane]

109. You've mischaracterized Skinner's comment.

He didn't comment "that the article doesn't say what BBI suggested that it said." After all, BBI's subject line was, as he explained, a verbatim quotation from the linked article (and it wasn't taken out of context).

Skinner's point was that the Obama executive order that was the subject of the linked article didn't say what the linked article said it said.

The difference is important because, as BBI pointed out in replies in that thread, the linked article was from The Progressive, not from some right-wing source.

What emerged from the thread (or at least from my skimming of it) was that Obama was largely continuing a policy of previous Presidents, not instituting something new; that the take on it in The Progressive was an overstatement; but that some DUers thought this would have been a ripe area for some "hope and change" in lieu of largely continuing a previous policy. This is certainly a legitimate debate for progressives to have.

I haven't examined any of the rest of BBI's oeuvre. That particular thread doesn't seem troublesome, unless any criticism of Obama (or, shall we say, some other centrist Democrat) is deemed to be unacceptable because it might indirectly help a Republican.