Barack Obama

who want our posts taken off the Greatest Page when they are popular so they don't have to be bothered with us.

Some say we should be purged from DU, or that our support of Obama was not in keeping with the DU, meaning they have not read the TOS, either:

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In the former case, he told them to use the Trash This Forum function. In the latter case, he said no one should be surprised that Democrats would support a Democratic POTUS on a website named Democratic Underground.

While some people have clearly violated many of the TOS, the Admins get rid of them eventually. I find that they are unerring fair and open minded and cognizant of the variety of opinions here.

Some posters do nothing but scour the internet to post negative views on Obama. They never find anything he or the party has done as good, which indicates to me they either never were Dems, stopped being Dems, have joined the Libertarians in real life or in spirit. They will never have anything but negative things to say, as they are not advocating what DU advocates in the TOS:

'Democratic Underground is an online community for politically liberal people who understand the importance of working within the system to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of political office.' When they have left the Dems behind in the dust, it's the right thing for them to bash and attack us. Not here, but anywhere. Rather hard to stop them, too, as they are extremely motivated as you can tell by the post counts.

So we have to grin and bear it just as those who can't stand that we exist will have to do the same. Those who cannot be honest or show the basic courtesy of respect this forum or any other, well...

That's why the Admins made the Ignore function. I don't allow anyone wipe their ass on me here or anywhere. And I'm not going to ever apologize for using what DU created to prevent being shit upon by people who cannot control themselves, or feel they are entitled to do so.