This morning, I found in my email a link to this which actually postulates that OBAMA doesn't care about the poor. And I couldn’t help myself! Every comment was anti-Obama, of course, so I just HAD to stir it up.
Using my pseudonym (Sue Deaunym), to each of these comments. . .
why should he care about the poor he doesn't care about jobs for us or human life he does not protect Americans.
I can't disagree with you Clifton, virtually all of Obama's policies raise expenses that hurt the middle and low income people.
Obama hates poor people.
he could care less about us. All he wants is the "Best life" for the rich.
Obama's only concern about Americans is whether they will vote for him, in my opinion.
. . . I replied:
Sounds more like Romney.
To which one commenter replied. . .
You need to pull your head out of the sand and open your eyes to reality.
. . . to which I responded. . .
Really? To Romney's reality, which changes year-by-year, day-by-day, audience-by-audience, issue-by-issue? Does "etch-a-sketch flip-flop" describe a man participating in reality? I'll take a face full of sand over that "reality" any day. . .
Then, I decided to let them hear about this issue from “the other side,” not the Fox News version. On my laptop, I was typing. . .
Anyone who blames Obama for the current levels of poverty in America either ignores recent history or is regurgitating right-wing rhetoric. I know you are all very tired of hearing this - start chanting “USA USA USA” now - but Obama inherited our nation’s financial meltdown from Bush and his neocon bosses (who are controlled by banks and markets). Obama’s efforts to heal our economy have been sabotaged by the same right-wing extremists who pledged to destroy his presidency the night of his inauguration, with obstructionistic filibuster and other political malevolence.
Folks, unless you earn a million dollars a year, you not only hurt yourself by voting for Romney, but you also contribute to the destruction of our middle class and, in many ways, of our economy. Romney is not one of us, nor is he one of you! But you knew that - didn’t you? - when Romney was nominated as the candidate least likely to alienate undecided voters (despite his quite poor record as a conservative). And you know that now, which is why you are accusing Obama of abandoning the poor when everyone knows that is Romney’s (and the GOP’s) cross to bear.
. . . when the webpage suddenly refreshed itself. Hmmm, I wondered. . . what just happened? Suspicious, I retyped the whole comment again on my word processor, so that I could cut and paste the entire thing in a matter of seconds, unlikely to be “bumped off.” It appeared at the top of the comments.
Just to be sure, I jumped onto my pc, and visited the website. And while my “sounds more like Romney” comments were there, my longer comment was not. I posted it again from my laptop, and again it appeared there, but not on my pc’s version. Again. . . hmmmm.
So I wondered if longer comments are blocked, perhaps a consequence of the shorter attention spans on right-wing-nut sites. I broke the comment into four nearly equal passages, and posted the first as a comment, the other three as separate relies to it.
All but one appeared. This was absent:
Folks, unless you earn a million dollars a year, you not only hurt yourself by voting for Romney, but you also contribute to the destruction of our middle class and, in many ways, of our economy. Romney is not one of us, nor is he one of you!
so I shortened it up a bit:
Folks, unless you earn a million dollars a year, you not only hurt yourself by voting for Romney, you hurt our economy. Romney is not one of us, nor is he one of you!
and it appeared (and was still there the last time I checked)! So, I’m very curious: was there something about words like
destruction or
middle class that is blocked? Perhaps they are more vigilant for original comments than for replies? Maybe I outpaced the website’s comment reviewers?