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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYahoo just a mess of ugly comments. :^( They sure are working extra hard at frothing at
the mouth and on the keyboard tonight!
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-path-forward-wont-quick-easy-023108183--election.html
livetohike
(22,084 posts)The next two months will be interesting, but I see no enthusiasm for Romney. Their convention was pathetic.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)livetohike
(22,084 posts)in over his head. He is not the "policy wonk" he wants people to think he is. He's all bluster and lies.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)tech3149
(4,452 posts)I doubt that berry, berry much! Some poor young staffer is banging out tweets commensurate with their experience and maturity.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)of it on the news in the morning?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The media spin on the Democrats and Obama is the most brazenly biased I've ever seen. Every station is trying to out do Fox with outright lying, editing and distortion.
And the money has not really hit the fan yet and the GOP has not finished trying to buy the election.
There is no way, with the kind of convention we had, with the wide variety of people there who do still believe in this country, and that hard work and honest dealing will make their lives better, for us to lose in an honest election. This is not one, so we are still in doubt.
But I'm not at all in doubt about the rightness of our cause the love and energy that so many delegates had there. I have told people I know that he is the best POTUS since Kennedy, but at this time, I see him as the best in my life.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)question then becomes one of whether or not they get any return on those expenditures. They'll put up ad after ad, but if they are of a similar quality to their convention, they hopefully won't do much to fire up the base or win over undecideds. The DNC should run snippets of the convention as their ads.
catbyte
(34,165 posts)Or is the $$$ being spent mainly on ads? I haven't heard much about that.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)it is unclear whether they mean presence, money, or both.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The voter intimidation was pretty bad this year in some special elections and of course in 2010. They've also got the teabaggers going and still disrupting every government they can find and trying to evict all Democrats. Not going on in all areas, but I've read of them doing it at planning meetings, and every place where they suspect Democrats are meeting, in parks, anywhere. Real brownshirting.
livetohike
(22,084 posts)if he does, it will change next week.
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)change their minds.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)they only put Positive Mittens stories. And they post nothing about Politics when he's having bad days in the media.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)But not for long.
Keep your distance and be patient, grasshopper -- they will eventually bleed out and die.
rocktivity
livetohike
(22,084 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)ChazInAz
(2,534 posts)But I still like to poke them with a stick while they're lying there twitching.
Just for shits and giggles, y'know.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It's the same shit.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)At least in the political section.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I've been having to use other search engines to get away from the bias. But it's getting harder because they flood the net with bots to skew the most popular. As soon as you get past the GOP swill, the search results rapidly fall into Chinese. I used to be able to get great, fast, non-commercial results from Scroogle but they got wiped out this year. Never found anything as good.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Mean...nasty...ugly...evil.
And I always feel, by some twisted 10 year old.
Grammy23
(5,807 posts)Comments. They appear to be written by a bunch of kids sitting in their rooms churning out crap. They have no common sense or knowledge base. They just blather on about Obama or Obummer or some other slur. They are awful so I just don't even look at them any more since they are very predictable. Juvenile humor that only appeals to a pimply faced kid, sucking down Pepsi and eating Cheetos. Don't even waste your time reading them. They offer you NO insight to the general population and how THEY are responding to the speech tonight.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Ran into the same thing on C-SPAN TV with their stupid call-in idiot hour.
Just back-click out of there, find something else..........
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)The entire GOP theme.
"We hate Obama"
How is it any different than their long term plan?
"We hate government"
No solutions. No plan. Just wipe out government. That will solve everything.
No solutions. No Plan. Just defeat Obama. That will solve everything.
See a pattern there?
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)ananda
(28,779 posts).. of a group desperate in decline.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Yes, there are still the usual assholes, usually with Christian College education (for some reason.) But I've noticed that Yahoo in particular is just SWAMPED with paid trolls since August.
You can easily recognize them. Most have names like "PaulS" or "BobG" or something generic and American sounding. And they post the same type of crap over and over again. Yahoo, including their news, is a cesspool. I don't even read the comments anymore.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)and just fuck with the really stupid ones (they are legion.) It's kind of fun when I'm bored!
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)away with calling their ideas popular because liberals let them go unchecked on big web sites and in comment sections. When people who don't really follow politics read those comments it looks like everybody is a right wing nut. Speak up and fight back.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)blood pressure seriously cannot take it anymore. I will leave it for the healthier folks to pursue!
mick063
(2,424 posts)Give Mitt the combination to the national vault and our dreams will come true!
GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)ellie
(6,927 posts)and kick the fence for fun. But then, I'm not a nice person.
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)saying the most inflammatory things possible to get a reaction.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Yahoo questions should be reported to the Secret Service. You wouldn't believe the hate and calls for violence on that piece of shit.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Nothing but wannabe Stormfront-knucklefuck sisterbanger peasants fellating the one percent lovingly. It's an internet embarrassment.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Yahoo is the new Free Republic
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)They got it all.