Weve never seen President Obama act like this

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167. Here is the issue

It's one thing disagreeing - and even doing so very vehemently - (as many here feel very strongly about certain issues that they believe impact them in some way) and it's another when you have a peanut gallery of tiresome labeling of people who don't agree (but who may be willing to listen without the drama) or the incessant naming-calling (like a post I saw this morning calling Obama "Bushama&quot and other childish nonsense, in some cases with an argument that this is supposedly "satire".

There are a number of critical issues surrounding the idiotic "Patriot Act" that have (thanks to technology) made us into even more of a surveillance state than the past (I now have a damn fisheye camera not 10 ft from my front door). And we have candidates that are bought and paid for by the highest bidder... But there are other issues that were are near and dear to many that have been dealt with or are being dealt with, but are summarily dismissed by many of the DUers who vociferously argue that nothing has been done under this administration over the past 6 years (i.e., same-sex marriage is not their "thing" so it never happened or increased environmental standards for cars and coal, and the wilderness set-asides, is persona non grata). And when called out on it, the hair gets lit once more about the same one or two subjects over and over, the posts of which get hundreds of recs.

We all have our own issues but when you have the type of dirty rotten politics that has always existed, but that is now magnified due to 24/7 "infotainment" masquerading as "news", thousands of commentary blog sites that virally feed into one perspective, and billionaires who control organizations that create legislation for passage by the elected officials they bought, then you can see why the political strategy to bring about change becomes more complex, and cannot simply be resolved by histrionic posts on an internet forum.