And don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying that Clinton supporters aren’t negative. But most people online seem to be Obama supporters, so it ends up seeming like a pile-on everywhere.
I can’t comment on the Obama supporters vitriol - I’m an Obama supporter who isn’t full of vitriol for HRC. However, I will comment on what terrible attacks Obama is getting from the rabid, frenzied people in the blog spots and even on the news station commentaries. He’s Muslim, sleeper cell extremeist, N*gger, He’s going to overthrow our government with militant muslim extremists etc…etc… and the list goes on.
I know Hillary supporters are having a hard time right now watching her lose to Obama. But forget you not that Obama supporters have been putting up with these ignorant disgusting comments for a lot longer on the same boards.
I’m happy he is the clear unadulterated front-runner. And I can’t wait to hear his inaugural speech.
It’s hard to find a news thread where some jerk doesn’t call him “Osama Hussein” and some of them get extremely weird. For example…
(http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/20/684411.aspx)
I’d feel safer wearing an HRC sweater to an Obama rally than being stuck in an elevator with this guy while I’m wearing my Obama button.
I think there is hype about the hype over “Obama hype” - people simply denying the existence of something, without a factual basis. They spin the meme about how the existence of religiousesque supporters is a meme, as though a commonly held belief can’t be true.
On a more serious note, you’ve got to admit that there are vocal and fanatical supporters of BO; whether or not that fanaticism is prevalent among his fans, it certainly is a part of his campaign’s image by now. This article rounds up a few of the sillier examples, including Obama is Kennedy and Must be in Line for Assassination paranoia, which has an SMDB analogue in this thread.
Likewise, try to fine a thread where Hillary doesn’t get called a “bitch” and a “cunt”.
Exactly it’s a mean world.
Surely, and it would be hard to determine if hateful messages about Clinton are coming from Obama supporters or conservatives, in general.
However, here at the SDMB, we have plenty of examples of hateful messages about Clinton coming from self-disclosed Obama supporters. I can’t say as I’ve seen many about Obama, period, let alone coming from affirmed Clinton supporters.
It may be a mean world, but it’s also a mean contingent of Obama supporters here at the SDMB. It’s been eye-opening, sad, and disappointing.
FTR, I have avoided saying anything because I wanted to avoid sounding sanctimonious and because I wasn’t prepared to follow up if anyone took exception to my saying something, but anyway, as an Obama sympathizer, I agree with you. I really don’t like the way a lot of non-Clinton-voting democrats talk about her. Sometimes it amounts to downright misogyny it does.
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What if he instead had been on the board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, and went straight from school into children’s rights law instead? Would you be just as admiring and eager to support a candidate who had done that? There is one, you know.
There is no problem at all with enthusiastic support of a candidate. There most certainly IS a problem with failure to consider reasons, both pro AND con, on an even basis. There is a HUGE problem with going on to personally denigrate another candidate on such a nonfactual basis, especially when it’s in the name of favoring unity and community, transcending “traditional politics”, and *eschewing * such cheap and irresponsible enmities.
Actually, you’re wrong. The number of posters who have called Hillary a bitch or a cunt in the last three months is in single digits. Exactly two posters have called her a cunt, **Quartz **and Harborwolf.
Indeed, there have been easily double the posts discussing how frequently those words are tossed around. You want to talk about hype. Jeez.
Yeah, there are some people that hate Hillary that are also Obama supporters (though one shouldn’t exactly be stunned by the correlation). Some of them appear to be misogynists, and hate her for no good reason. Some of them are blind partisans. But many, many more, have given reasoned justifications for disliking her, whether you agree or not.
She worked for one year at CDF, and for 15 at a corporate firm defending Wal-Mart and the like.
Which is entirely beside the point, since I wasn’t saying Hillary isn’t a good woman, nor was I explaining my support for Obama’s candidacy. I was showing why I thought he was a good man.
While I agree there appear to be more Obama supporters than Hillary Supporters on the SDMB - there are a lot of fanatical conservative groupies out there slinging hate all across the internet for both candidates and by in large that slime has not been present here. There are some that sling it, but others try and back their claims up with cites and facts.
I’ve seen enough hate on the news boards, blogs and interweb to last a lifetime, I stay here because people generally have a decent attitude. Generally…
Actually, I’m surprised anyone on here used those words. I was responding to cricetus’ comment about nasty remarks about Obama on other boards, and another comment slipped in between.
Don’t believe the hype. (as the kids say today) :rolleyes:
The Beatles had a lot of hype, but they were also the best band of the 1960s. I suppose there were people who just saw the hype and were blinded to the fact that they were brilliant and had substance and were changing the world.
Red Auerbach, the old Celtics coach, used to explain why he so rarely played rookies: " ‘Potential’ is a Latin word that means you ain’t worth a damn yet."
Obama doesn’t have “potential.” He has experience and qualifications.
So did Celtics rookies.
Since I know you like to stay on topic, you might want to take your interest in the Celtics to Cafe Society. This thread is about the next president. Thanks.
And wouldn’t you know it, he was also the man who drafted the first Black NBA player as well! Touché .