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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 07:51 PM Oct 2012

between being a critic and freaking out

OK, let me give some disclaimers.

Yes...Obama lost the debate

Yes, Mitt got a bounce, though he was going to get one anyway.

Now, pointing out these facts does not make you a troll. Asking Obama to fight harder, slap the hell out of his handlers, does not make you a troll.

Pointing out factors like the fact Mitt Lied, or that Obama had a day job, is also not worthy of being a troll.

However, the problem is there are people who indeed are trying to troll, and they are sitting back trying to suck energy.

Want an example?
http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2012/10/05/the-spite-vote

This is a guy who was written that he wants Obama to fail because that is the only way we will have violent revolution. He has slammed MLK and Gandhi, saying that someday, non-violent revoultion willbe looked at as a lie. Kepp in mind, this is the same fellow that thinks the internet should be banned because he think it is why he is not getting paid for his books, not that his books actually suck.

So,I ask we be cautious, Let us let our freinds here speak their heart, but also, let us not cry "McCarthyism" when someone asks us not to fall prey to the despair merchants that want everyone to fail to justify their weakness.

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