"Chairman Mao is like the Red Sun in our hearts!" Now flame.

[jdonaldball]

"Chairman Mao is like the Sun!"
"One word from Chairman Mao is like ten thousand words!"
(Slogans from China's Cultural Revolution, 1966.)
"Death to all counterrevolutionaries who say otherwise!"
And sorry, folks, flame away now. But I see just a hint of this in the fanatical praise of Obama here on DU.
I'm relatively new here and have now gotten my first taste of flames in GD, for suggesting that Obama is, well, very good indeed, but perhaps not brilliant. I mean, very good, very intelligent, and he will be a better Senator than almost all of them. I just don't think he's as brilliant as many of our comrades think he is.
And I've expressed my support and admiration for him and still do.
But, um, are any of us Dems allowed to say anything critical of Obama at all? I mean, like, maybe he's not brilliant, but just very good and better than 99 percent of the Senate right now?
I mean, if I say Obama will be a better Senator than 99 of them, except for Byrd, but then say that he's not as great as many DUers think he is - um, does this make me a Counterrevolutionary Running Dog Imperialist Enemy? Do we all have to agree that we love Obama?
Can't we just agree that he'll be a great Senator?
And is it worthwhile at all, for any of us to remind us all, that personality cults are not what Democracy is about?
(Cringing, waiting for flames, and for a Red Guard to put a dunce cap on my head and order me to kowtow to Obama....isn't it enough just to urge people to vote for him? :-)

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[jdonaldball]

2. Please explain

I'm voting a straight Dem ticket in November, and in DU I have never said a single word against any Dem candidate, and many words against the Repubs.
Please explain why that should be ignored?
Explain why any Dem voter, who has never said a word against any Dem candidate here on DU, and always said nothing but scorn against the Repubs - please explain why this is a Red Herring to be ignored?
Look at all my posts. You will not find a single one against any Dem, and you will find many against the Repubs. And many silly posts in the lounge, but nothing against any Dem, and nothing but opposition to the Repubs.
So tell me, why ignore? Why alienate a loyal Democrat?
I challenge you to find a single post of mine which has ever been against any Democratic candidate, or any post which has ever supported any Republican candidate.
Now show me the Red Herring, in political terms. Show me where I have ever opposed a Democratic candidate or supported a Republican.
And that is the test. The test is whether I suppport the Dem candidates and oppose the Republicans. All of my posts are consistent in this way.
So then, tell me why to ignore someone who has NEVER opposed the Dems, and then supported some Dems expressly, and ALWAYS opposed the Repubs, on DU?

[BigMcLargehuge]

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Please don't carry flame wars over from one forum to another.

Big McLargehuge
DU Moderator