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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:51 AM Aug 2012

Ok, it's going 'round FB about some college roommate of Barack Obama's

and how this is going to "destroy" his presidency. Since I am 'of an excitable nature', I did not click the links.

It smacks of Larry Sinclair to me, but I need to smack the monkeys. Where was this guy when B.O. was running for Congress? For Senate? Suddenly, there's some peculiar story from his undergrad(?) days that will jeopardize his presidency?

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Ok, it's going 'round FB about some college roommate of Barack Obama's (Original Post) LaydeeBug Aug 2012 OP
bullshit. As you said where was this person before? /nt still_one Aug 2012 #1
In prison? n/t 1StrongBlackMan Aug 2012 #61
or the Brookings Institute. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #75
Brookings INSTITUTION. If you're going to take a swipe at it, WorseBeforeBetter Aug 2012 #120
What a bizarre non sequitur. yardwork Aug 2012 #132
Lol still_one Aug 2012 #145
If there was anything out there it would have turned up in '08. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2012 #2
keep this shit on FB where it belongs maddezmom Aug 2012 #3
keep your stab at censorship somewhere else too, who do you think you are? LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #15
Like most of us, we're not interested in baseless gossip CabCurious Aug 2012 #32
Welcome to DU, please don't tell other posters what to do. No one is freaking out, present LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #45
"keep your stab at censorship somewhere else too"? Please don't tell other posters what to do. uppityperson Aug 2012 #79
Right back atcha. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #105
Oh, I'm not telling you what to do, simply pointing out hypocrisy when I see it. uppityperson Aug 2012 #110
Me too. It seems ok for you too LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #111
Don't you get tired? Jumping to those false conclusions and missing the point? uppityperson Aug 2012 #112
Don't *YOU*? You seem to think you're not doing it. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #118
All you have is "I know you are but what am I"? Hahahahahahaha uppityperson Aug 2012 #119
Censorship? UnrepentantLiberal Aug 2012 #38
yup. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #46
Is this something that the Brookings Institution is doing now? yardwork Aug 2012 #133
Thank you for your concern about our President. Did you parents not teach you kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #42
Did *EXPERIENCE* teach you that one man's "baseless gossip mongering" is another's undoing? LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #44
Don't call me "honey". I ain't your honey. kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #126
She's someone who sees this as a rehash of a lie from 2008. Which is exactly what it is. Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #56
I didn't see this in 2008, or I would have asked then...and while I appreciate your attempt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #59
You don't have a position, you're just posting NOTHING CreekDog Aug 2012 #78
Again...WHINE AWAY, WHINE all you want, there is *clearly* a discussion here, your WHINING LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #97
no censorship, because you didn't say ANYTHING CreekDog Aug 2012 #74
Trying to BULLY someone as to what they can and can't say endorses CENSORSHIP LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #96
Trying to bully someone into shutting up also is censoring. Pot-kettle uppityperson Aug 2012 #106
Hear hear! This is RW BS. Nt. DevonRex Aug 2012 #131
I hear he had to pretend he was gay so Mr. Furley wouldn't kick him out. Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #4
Wrong. He and His Roomate Dressed Up As Women Yavin4 Aug 2012 #6
That was a Tom Hanks TV show. nt valerief Aug 2012 #64
thank you for your concern. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #69
Aren't you thinking about Jack Lemon lillypaddle Aug 2012 #124
Are you talking about that Wayne Root jerk? sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #5
Oh thank you. Oh thank you!! Hugs, vibes, a very grateful good ole girl thanks you LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #16
you believe things so fast that you'll probably just believe the next rumor CreekDog Aug 2012 #80
<<<<<YAWN>>>>>>> LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #92
I can identify with you, LaydeeBug trayfoot Aug 2012 #81
I can identify with that as well, but I never for a second believed a bit of it, I just wanted LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #109
Just a point, since we're pretending this matters... aquart Aug 2012 #90
Thank you for this. It helps. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #98
Facebook? WI_DEM Aug 2012 #7
Is this like the Michelle Obama get the red out Aug 2012 #8
Was that the dreaded "honky" video? Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #12
there's a honky video? LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #18
Don't remember much, other than freepers claiming it existed. Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #21
They will stop at nothing. Haters gonna hate. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #26
whitey 2pooped2pop Aug 2012 #28
That could be correct! Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #30
If I remember right, it was obvious in the video 2pooped2pop Aug 2012 #35
Yes, promised but never delivered get the red out Aug 2012 #71
Didn't find it on Facebook GoneOffShore Aug 2012 #9
This post was alerted on. The jury voted 5/1 to let it stand. ohiosmith Aug 2012 #10
I'm glad this stayed up... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #11
If we don't put a stop to this when it starts, it could damn well SNOWBALL out of control, ie LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #25
a stop to what? baseless gossip? nt CabCurious Aug 2012 #33
Welcome to DU! There seem to be a lot of new folk here LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #57
grab a clue: You don't put a stop to it by breathlessly spreading it the YOU are. cali Aug 2012 #40
I'd get a clue from you if you had one...but clearly you're too busy deciding I'm breathless LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #53
congratulations, you managed to get everyone to post every rumor they know about Obama CreekDog Aug 2012 #82
Congratulations, you contributed NOTHING other than your *whining* and *conflating* LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #95
Here's a clue... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #70
I am TOO! what is wrong with coming to a place that can be trusted Bluerthanblue Aug 2012 #31
Me too. I had an uncle bring this up over the weekend... JHB Aug 2012 #62
citizen! By repeating this, you undermine the principles of our democratic platform LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #114
Hahahaha! I had no idea I was so *popular* (sic). Haters gonna hate. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #19
That's why I went over to Meta and asked them to reopen the Research Forum Panasonic Aug 2012 #43
+1000 LongTomH Aug 2012 #63
Agreed! (nt) Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #73
Is it really okay to post the jury info? As a DU Juror, I think it weakens the system. n/t progressivebydesign Aug 2012 #48
This is the new scam Jerome Corsi is peddling. Ganja Ninja Aug 2012 #13
He's holding back because the first Photoshop was so shoddy. GoneOffShore Aug 2012 #14
and the monkeys will swear up and down it's true, 'they'll know someone who saw it','who was there' LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #22
thank you for this. I have relatives clamoring with glee and spite. I am glad it's a yawn. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #24
Wait, what? Arkana Aug 2012 #88
Something doesn't smell right about your concerned posts. I have seen quite a few stink bug. Pisces Aug 2012 #17
I grew up near a waste water plant, and know STENCH myself...thanks for your *concern*. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #20
Ahh, that explains where you crawled out from. Pisces Aug 2012 #140
You aren't alone - so have I. I smell something. kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #127
There are no kxm40 Aug 2012 #23
Good stand, LaydeeBug. JohnnyLib2 Aug 2012 #27
+1 forewarned is forearmed Bluerthanblue Aug 2012 #36
and if you don't say anything, they pretend it's tacit approval. I'm not saying that's the way it LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #49
The SuperPACs have how much invested in this election? turtlerescue1 Aug 2012 #29
Jerome Corsi: Mitt Romney Married Hitler On Mars! CJCRANE Aug 2012 #34
Oh look, now it's going 'round DU as well. Brickbat Aug 2012 #37
Oh look, maybe we could put our heads together and combat it, or just bitch about LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #50
and you felt the desperate need to spread this slime, whatever it is, here. cali Aug 2012 #39
Why are you jumping on LaydeeBug? It's already been posted here... sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #41
because haters gonna hate. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #47
It's not "haters." I've been here since 2001, and every election, these skirmishes happen. progressivebydesign Aug 2012 #51
As we are all aware of the monkeys flinging poo about us.... LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #54
if it was already posted, why did you post it again? CreekDog Aug 2012 #87
Post removed Post removed Aug 2012 #100
LOL, go somewhere else and quit whining! N-t Logical Aug 2012 #52
Now you're deciding I'm desperate, and *STILL* have not contributed ONE THING OF SUBSTANCE LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #55
uh-oh....everyone hide..it's the fun police !!!!!! zzaapp Aug 2012 #65
Good thing she didn't link to Free Republic! n/t demmiblue Aug 2012 #135
Are you friends with World Net Daily on FB or something? Ruby the Liberal Aug 2012 #58
Friends from Way Back and Relatives...saying *this* will bring him down. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #67
So what was so telling? Ruby the Liberal Aug 2012 #76
How I was referred to as as "desperate" and "breathless" <<<-----as a woman, I find this extremely LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #117
Okay - I was talking about your OP. Ruby the Liberal Aug 2012 #122
As a woman, you find it "extremely offensive" to be called "breathless?" yardwork Aug 2012 #134
This fits the pattern of other right-wing non-stories. louis-t Aug 2012 #60
I agree, but it could get the 'mistress' treatment or it could be a swiftboat. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #72
Thank you for your concern. nt valerief Aug 2012 #66
No...no...thank YOU for your *contribution* Really. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #68
oh, well nothing could be more true than a facebook rumor quinnox Aug 2012 #77
that's what the Swiftboaters said, but keep pretending we don't have to LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #107
bwahahahahaaaa and the reThugs have been sitting on this story for four yrs....bwhahahahaa spanone Aug 2012 #83
I personally enjoy seeing these kinds of posts on here. Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #84
and that is EXACTLY why i posted it. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #101
At least he paid his taxes Ezlivin Aug 2012 #85
That is an awesome response, and we should use it LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #93
Thank you for your concern. aquart Aug 2012 #86
It is Larry Sinclair re-warmed jberryhill Aug 2012 #89
While they are beyond hope, their audience is not, so smacking is necessary. nt LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #108
Nonsense jberryhill Aug 2012 #113
It's only going around among DESPERATE WINGNUTS Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #91
Sadly, no. LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #102
This is old news. I used to a have a goper in my life and heard about this years ago. jillan Aug 2012 #94
I didn't see it last time around, and it went beyond the rightwing monkey scope LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #104
First - do not call our President "B.O." Avalux Aug 2012 #99
First, here IN REALITY, presidents are referenced by their initials all the fucking time... LaydeeBug Aug 2012 #103
Yup, I see JC and RR all the time here. Damn straight! GF also, not to mention RN uppityperson Aug 2012 #116
Yeah, that was the "tell" lolly Aug 2012 #123
It certainly IS a "tell". kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #128
And all the time I THOUGHT I was saying "JC GF, I'm an RN" I was ACTUALLY saying uppityperson Aug 2012 #138
Nice.....thank you. n/t Avalux Aug 2012 #137
She did not spread an unsubstantiated rumor ... because she never said what the rumor was. n/t ieoeja Aug 2012 #125
Oh, and just in case any of the dogs missed the whistle, the roommate is Pakistani KamaAina Aug 2012 #115
PEOPLE WHO RECALL OBAMA FROM COLUMBIA jberryhill Aug 2012 #121
Nu-uh! If they can find one person who never met Obama at Columbia it proves he was never there!! yardwork Aug 2012 #136
Snopes.com: Barack Obama did not attend Columbia University - FALSE Hissyspit Aug 2012 #129
The imminent appearance of the infamous "whitey" tape was also going 'round. AtomicKitten Aug 2012 #130
But then nobody knew Obama in college treestar Aug 2012 #139
Please don't refer to our President as B.O. mzmolly Aug 2012 #141
there's another 'concern' thread in Politics 2012 forum AtomicKitten Aug 2012 #142
Hmmm. Many mzmolly Aug 2012 #143
It must be really really important if it's on FB just1voice Aug 2012 #144
Anything real and damaging from his past would Incitatus Aug 2012 #146

yardwork

(61,604 posts)
132. What a bizarre non sequitur.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:57 PM
Aug 2012

What do you have against the Brookings Institution? Are they promulgating rumors against Obama now? That would be a change in mission.

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
3. keep this shit on FB where it belongs
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:54 AM
Aug 2012

it's pure garbage and was around last time around and on DU2 the mods deleted this crap.

CabCurious

(954 posts)
32. Like most of us, we're not interested in baseless gossip
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:03 AM
Aug 2012

Until you have something to share, don't stir up "concern" and then freak out when it's thrown in your face.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
45. Welcome to DU, please don't tell other posters what to do. No one is freaking out, present
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:04 PM
Aug 2012

company notwithstanding.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
79. "keep your stab at censorship somewhere else too"? Please don't tell other posters what to do.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012

as you said.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
110. Oh, I'm not telling you what to do, simply pointing out hypocrisy when I see it.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:17 PM
Aug 2012

It's ok for you to tell others what to do, but not ok for them to tell you. Gotcha.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
42. Thank you for your concern about our President. Did you parents not teach you
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:54 AM
Aug 2012

that baseless gossipmongering is RUDE, however??

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
44. Did *EXPERIENCE* teach you that one man's "baseless gossip mongering" is another's undoing?
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:03 PM
Aug 2012

Honey, please.

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
56. She's someone who sees this as a rehash of a lie from 2008. Which is exactly what it is.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:25 PM
Aug 2012

Just as it was a foolish distortion which didn't resonate with anyone not already of a Freeper mentality then, so it remains today.

It's a non-issue. It's not censorship to avoid propagating BS, though. That's rather reactionary on your part.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
59. I didn't see this in 2008, or I would have asked then...and while I appreciate your attempt
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:26 PM
Aug 2012

to marginalize my position on censorship, I will not be bullied.

Thanks.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
78. You don't have a position, you're just posting NOTHING
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012

what is the point of your post?

that someone said something to you that something (which you don't know) is going to be said by some guy, (you also don't know) which will be really bad (but you don't know that either).

you act like you deserve a Pulitzer Prize for this post. but it's just rumor and innuendo --about nothing because you don't know anything.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
97. Again...WHINE AWAY, WHINE all you want, there is *clearly* a discussion here, your WHINING
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:55 PM
Aug 2012

notwithstanding.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
74. no censorship, because you didn't say ANYTHING
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:58 PM
Aug 2012

your post about "oooh, there some bad rumor out there, maybe" because you heard it from someone is a joke.

you haven't posted anything.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
96. Trying to BULLY someone as to what they can and can't say endorses CENSORSHIP
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:54 PM
Aug 2012

Sorry if you feel the need to WHINE about that.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
106. Trying to bully someone into shutting up also is censoring. Pot-kettle
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:13 PM
Aug 2012

Calling those who disagree "whiners" and "haters" seems an attempt to bully others into shutting up, into censoring them.

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
6. Wrong. He and His Roomate Dressed Up As Women
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:56 AM
Aug 2012

So that they could stay in a women only residence in NY.

sinkingfeeling

(51,454 posts)
5. Are you talking about that Wayne Root jerk?
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:56 AM
Aug 2012

Last edited Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:00 AM - Edit history (1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_Root

He was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee.

His political talk radio show,W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Showis broadcast in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Root is a frequent guest on several nationally syndicated radio shows such as Savage Nation, The Jerry Doyle Show, and Mancow's Morning Madhouse. He has also made numerous appearances on various programs on the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent speaker at Tea Party events across the United States.

Root's political columns appear in the Las Vegas Review Journal and at Newsmax.com.

"Root claims that he does not have any recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia.."
 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
16. Oh thank you. Oh thank you!! Hugs, vibes, a very grateful good ole girl thanks you
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:32 AM
Aug 2012

for saving me from this crap! Oh, God Bless You!

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
80. you believe things so fast that you'll probably just believe the next rumor
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:01 PM
Aug 2012

worse, you'll post it here, without looking for any explanation beforehand.

sigh.

trayfoot

(1,568 posts)
81. I can identify with you, LaydeeBug
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:02 PM
Aug 2012

In '08, I was "concerned" about John Edwards - the rumors and articles in ENQUIRER. When I brought this up on DU, I was shouted down in a not so nice way. Truth was, I was a John Edwards supporter who was just trying to learn the truth.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
109. I can identify with that as well, but I never for a second believed a bit of it, I just wanted
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:17 PM
Aug 2012

to be able to smack it down cogently and quickly. A google search gives NOTHING BUt right wing links. Snopes didn't have anything either so I posted it here because I wanted me and anyone who sees this to be able to refute it easily.

aquart

(69,014 posts)
90. Just a point, since we're pretending this matters...
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:31 PM
Aug 2012

Columbia University is the size of a small city. Even if you were signed up for the same classes, you would not necessarily see someone you were not specifically looking for. If you were NOT signed up for the same classes, the chances of seeing someone YOU DID NOT EVEN KNOW....are about the same as running into your dead uncle in Times Square.

Also, Columbia is not a party school, it's a grind school. You know some of the people in your class, your year, and you don't look up until it's all over and someone on a podium is telling you to move your tassel.

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
8. Is this like the Michelle Obama
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:00 AM
Aug 2012

video that never showed up in the last election? Sounds about the same. Promises that the right won't keep but that get their minions all excited.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
21. Don't remember much, other than freepers claiming it existed.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:36 AM
Aug 2012

It was pretty much just the first lady using the word "honky"... if I'm remembering their claim correctly.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
28. whitey
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:00 AM
Aug 2012

wasn't it that they were saying she said "whitey" when she said "why'd he"?

Like "why'd he do that? to "whitey do that"

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
30. That could be correct!
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:01 AM
Aug 2012

All I remember for sure was that they were up in arms about Michelle using a "white slur" and the video "proving she was racist".

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
35. If I remember right, it was obvious in the video
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:07 AM
Aug 2012

that she had said "why'd he" because "whitey do that" didn't mesh with the rest of the tone of her speaking but "why'd he do that" did.

GoneOffShore

(17,339 posts)
9. Didn't find it on Facebook
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:01 AM
Aug 2012

But Jerome Corsi (Seriously batshit) is saying that all kinds of weird stuff about the President's roommate and their relationship.

But it's Jerome Corsi - king of the birthers. So that's worth about a penny.

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)
10. This post was alerted on. The jury voted 5/1 to let it stand.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:02 AM
Aug 2012

At Mon Aug 13, 2012, 06:53 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Ok, it's going 'round FB about some college roommate of Barack Obama's
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021122775

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

do we really need this bigoted gay conspiracy garbage on DU? it's no better than birther nonsense

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Aug 13, 2012, 07:00 AM, and the Jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: LadyDeeBug is not some sort of RW troll etc. Her bringing this up IMNSHO is genuine. No reason to block this post.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: A link from the OP author would have been helpful but I see
nothing disruptive here. What I do see is projecting and abuse of the alert function by the alerter. LEAVE IT


Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No links provided. Could be a concern troll but this isn't over the top.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: It's a discussion board! Discuss away! Leave the post.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: We let the 8th-grade stuff pass around here, but this is 6th-grade stuff.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
11. I'm glad this stayed up...
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:07 AM
Aug 2012

As a group and a community, we DO need to be prepared to counter this crap when it appears (and it will). It's best to be prepared to debunk it rather than just look puzzled.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
25. If we don't put a stop to this when it starts, it could damn well SNOWBALL out of control, ie
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:48 AM
Aug 2012

Al Gore saying he invented the internet (No he fucking didn't. Get a grammar lesson), Howard Dean's scream (listen to it in context of the loud room) or just about everything in the Ken (Porno) Starr Report, and it should fucking be OBVIOUS why we need to head these off.

Shit, to beckon the person who wanted to hide my post, it should be fucking ELEMENTARY for sure. Funny that.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
53. I'd get a clue from you if you had one...but clearly you're too busy deciding I'm breathless
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:15 PM
Aug 2012

which is stupid.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
82. congratulations, you managed to get everyone to post every rumor they know about Obama
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:06 PM
Aug 2012

because you posted that there's a big, bad rumor about Obama, but not what that rumor is.

so everyone posts asking, "is it this big, bad rumor?" and so forth.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
95. Congratulations, you contributed NOTHING other than your *whining* and *conflating*
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:53 PM
Aug 2012

I am no more responsible for the things other people post than I am for your WHINING.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
70. Here's a clue...
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:55 PM
Aug 2012

When the Office Rightwing Dumbass (tm) starts spouting this nonsense at the water cooler (where a half dozen susceptible people can hear it), it would be massively helpful to say, "That's not true, and here's why" rather than just sputter indignantly about Fox News and media bias.

Bluerthanblue

(13,669 posts)
31. I am TOO! what is wrong with coming to a place that can be trusted
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:01 AM
Aug 2012

to tell it like it is, or find out the facts if no one knows? DU is filled with people who have more knowledge about so many things than any other single site I've ever encountered and is the perfect place to ask a question like this.

Thank you LaydeeBug for asking it- thank you to those who were able to answer with reassuring facts, and thank you to the jury for making the right decision.

If we don't feel able to ask sincere questions here, and get honest answers from people we have come to trust, then DU would not be the great resource and community that I have known and participated in for many many years.



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JHB

(37,160 posts)
62. Me too. I had an uncle bring this up over the weekend...
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:31 PM
Aug 2012

... at a family gathering (thus no links involved).

Not knowing what the hell this was about I just gave a "do you expect me to believe that load of crap?" look, but I was wondering what the hell he was talking about this time.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
114. citizen! By repeating this, you undermine the principles of our democratic platform
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:22 PM
Aug 2012

You must be a plant. Or you must *believe* it, otherwise, why would you post it here? Or you must not be able to be as good a Democrat as the BULLIES running around this very thread whining like sniveling little *Republicans*.

Oh, were this shit not true, it'd be funny.

 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
43. That's why I went over to Meta and asked them to reopen the Research Forum
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:55 AM
Aug 2012

Opposition research is always a very good thing.

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
13. This is the new scam Jerome Corsi is peddling.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:09 AM
Aug 2012
He claims there is a picture of Obama sitting on his College roommate's lap wearing a wedding ring and they were married and his roommate was an Arab/Muslim....blah blah blah.

He's yet to release the picture. Why he's holding back is a real mystery.
 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
22. and the monkeys will swear up and down it's true, 'they'll know someone who saw it','who was there'
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:41 AM
Aug 2012

the broken record technique works remarkably well if we don't play 'whack a mole' with their bullshit

JohnnyLib2

(11,211 posts)
27. Good stand, LaydeeBug.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:53 AM
Aug 2012

It's not just FB. There is a book, talk shows, and apparently a radio show.

I put this under "know thy enemy." The effort to maintain and increase the Obama-hater base is not going away.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
49. and if you don't say anything, they pretend it's tacit approval. I'm not saying that's the way it
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:11 PM
Aug 2012

should be, but that's the way it is. I will post about it whenever the *FUCK* I want. They can alert away. Haters gonna hate. Pretending to be some "General Discussion Posting Gestapo" is *probably* making the matter FAR FUCKING WORSE.

"Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do" In*fucking*deed.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
50. Oh look, maybe we could put our heads together and combat it, or just bitch about
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:12 PM
Aug 2012

the FACT that it's going around.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
39. and you felt the desperate need to spread this slime, whatever it is, here.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:09 AM
Aug 2012

how darling of you, dear.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
47. because haters gonna hate.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:06 PM
Aug 2012

It's fucking *hilarious* that they are doing what they're bitching about.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
51. It's not "haters." I've been here since 2001, and every election, these skirmishes happen.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:14 PM
Aug 2012

There are some people, usually newer, that post things like this because they are genuinely concerned, as you seem to be, that this egregious crap is going around the internet.

Then, there are other DUers who seem to always post that crap... and suddenly, the rumor and bs is floating around on DU, being discussed, being indexed by search engines. There are people here who are not supporters of the Democratic ticket, who are here simply to disrupt, to cast doubt, etc. And some are paid to do it.

So there is this OTHER group of DUers that have seen this every single election, and react badly to it because they're tired of the paid trolls who pose as "concerned voters". It's a fine line.

There are a handful of DUers (not you,) that I can identify without even seeing the name of who started the thread. It's clear to me that they have an agenda, but I figure until other people figure it out and alert on them, I'll just wait.

Most of us don't want to give scumbags like Corsi the light of day, or their destructive and hateful rumors. It's not censorship, it's not dignifying it. We already know the enemy, and they suck.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
54. As we are all aware of the monkeys flinging poo about us....
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:20 PM
Aug 2012

part of the DU Rules is to discuss anyway. you aren't supposed to be calling people "trolls". It gets done each day by people who think it's ok for THEM not to follow the rules. There are professionals out here too. *HIRED* to do this shit. And still we must refute their lies with FACTS. DU is a clearing house for such matters, and for that I am grateful.

But I am NOT going to have someone try to BULLY ME or ANYONE ELSE to to piss on my boots and tell me it's raining. It's not DIGNIFIED TO BULLY ANOTHER POSTER. It's not dignified to "bait and switch" censorship (i.e., don't talk about this or that, don't bring it up or else) with dignity.

People who claim the moral high ground (and it's not you personally) at all should not be standing in quick sand when they do it.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
87. if it was already posted, why did you post it again?
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:12 PM
Aug 2012

and why with basically no content, so that nobody knows which rumor you are talking about?

Response to CreekDog (Reply #87)

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
55. Now you're deciding I'm desperate, and *STILL* have not contributed ONE THING OF SUBSTANCE
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:23 PM
Aug 2012

to this thread despite your lame assed attempt at bullying.

***BLESS YOUR HEART DEAR, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME***

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)
58. Are you friends with World Net Daily on FB or something?
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:26 PM
Aug 2012

Yay! We have our 2012 Larry Sinclair.

So - when is the lie detector test scheduled for the new one?

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
67. Friends from Way Back and Relatives...saying *this* will bring him down.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:49 PM
Aug 2012

Even professional MMF fighter posted it. I didn't want to get on a funky mailing it, or whatever contribution you make to the interworld when one clicks on the link, and so I thought I'd ask here.

I got my answer, and a LOT more was TELLING.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
117. How I was referred to as as "desperate" and "breathless" <<<-----as a woman, I find this extremely
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:25 PM
Aug 2012

offensive, and I believe the poster is a woman too (sad, but TELLING).

That there were posters, LONGTIME POSTERS who TOOK THE TIME OUT to celebrate spite and be bitter and accusatory rather than be helpful and informative. That's TELLING.

Oh, and so much more just from the bile end, but I honestly don't feel like getting into it all

Ruby the Liberal

(26,219 posts)
122. Okay - I was talking about your OP.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:10 PM
Aug 2012

Which is what I responded to. I didn't read this thread - just came here through a jury (post left standing) and thought I would address the OP.

yardwork

(61,604 posts)
134. As a woman, you find it "extremely offensive" to be called "breathless?"
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 04:00 PM
Aug 2012

I'm so out of the loop. First I hear that Brookings changed their name and mission, now this. I can't keep up.

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
60. This fits the pattern of other right-wing non-stories.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:29 PM
Aug 2012

"You are not gonna BELIEVE what we found!1!!11"
Think, the Kerry 'mistress' story that was disproven within minutes.

All hype and bullshit, lots of screaming, reported by thousands of talk show creeps, then it becomes true in the minds of the feeble.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
72. I agree, but it could get the 'mistress' treatment or it could be a swiftboat.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 12:57 PM
Aug 2012

After all, *THAT* story wasn't true either, but the damage was done.

I like whack-a-mole. Others like other things.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
77. oh, well nothing could be more true than a facebook rumor
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:00 PM
Aug 2012



Make sure to keep us informed on other facebook rumors going around about Obama!
 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
107. that's what the Swiftboaters said, but keep pretending we don't have to
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:13 PM
Aug 2012

address these things. <<<------ Being 'boring' and not vigilant is how we got Bush.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
84. I personally enjoy seeing these kinds of posts on here.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:09 PM
Aug 2012

The OP isn't claiming that she/he believes it's true and isn't claiming that we should all be scared. Only that it's making the rounds and it's another stupid talking point we're going to have jabbed at us.

It let's me know what's coming and have my facts straight when my "in laws" try to start arguments with me.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
101. and that is EXACTLY why i posted it.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:00 PM
Aug 2012

I am aghast at these people who THINK they can tell other people what they can and can't post.

Holy crap!

aquart

(69,014 posts)
86. Thank you for your concern.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:10 PM
Aug 2012

Personally, having been to college, I am of the opinion that what happens in the Columbia dorms should stay in the Columbia dorms.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
89. It is Larry Sinclair re-warmed
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:14 PM
Aug 2012

If "the monkeys" are into this particular pile of poo, there is no need to "smack" them. They are beyond hope.
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
113. Nonsense
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:21 PM
Aug 2012

Barack Obama has been president for several years.

If he has not demonstrated sufficient good character in that job for the last several years to one's satisfaction, then do not vote for him. However, to re-hash the "he has some kind of character issue or flaw" at this point in time, based on bizarre allegations involving events decades ago, is to miss the point that the man has BEEN president for some time now.

jillan

(39,451 posts)
94. This is old news. I used to a have a goper in my life and heard about this years ago.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:51 PM
Aug 2012

I believe Snopes.com debunks this.

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
104. I didn't see it last time around, and it went beyond the rightwing monkey scope
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:09 PM
Aug 2012

I certainly hope snopes says something, but I some searches I did before posting this OP at all said there was nothing.

I snopes and google before I ask here.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
99. First - do not call our President "B.O."
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:56 PM
Aug 2012

Second - if you didn't read the information, how can you form any sort of opinion about it?

And, why bother spreading an unsubstantiated rumor for which you have no details?

 

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
103. First, here IN REALITY, presidents are referenced by their initials all the fucking time...
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:06 PM
Aug 2012

secondly, I specifically used periods between those initials to stop any web crawling if there is any, and thirdly your questions are fucking silly considering CONTRIBUTORS already quickly and politely dispensed with it so...

why are YOU posing questions that were already answered? why are YOU involving yourself in a thread you CLEARLY haven't bothered to *read*? <<<--------Answer that question for yourself, and you'll have all of YOUR answers. You're welcome.

lolly

(3,248 posts)
123. Yeah, that was the "tell"
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:23 PM
Aug 2012

I never hear/see Democrats refer to Obama as "B.O."

That one was supposed to be oh-so-funny because it was identical with a 6th grade insult.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
138. And all the time I THOUGHT I was saying "JC GF, I'm an RN" I was ACTUALLY saying
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 05:09 PM
Aug 2012

not jesus christ girlfriend, I am a registered nurse" I was saying "Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford, I am a Richard Nixon".

 

ieoeja

(9,748 posts)
125. She did not spread an unsubstantiated rumor ... because she never said what the rumor was. n/t
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:31 PM
Aug 2012
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
121. PEOPLE WHO RECALL OBAMA FROM COLUMBIA
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:32 PM
Aug 2012

I attended a university with some 15,000 students and, remarkably, I remember very few of the people who attended the same classes that I did. I had a chemistry lecture section with some 150 students in it. I can recall with accuracy, three of them.

http://www.thefogbow.com/special-reports/people-remember-president-obama/friends-2/#Columbia

yardwork

(61,604 posts)
136. Nu-uh! If they can find one person who never met Obama at Columbia it proves he was never there!!
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 04:03 PM
Aug 2012

Freeper logic.

 

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)
130. The imminent appearance of the infamous "whitey" tape was also going 'round.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:55 PM
Aug 2012

Some here waited with bated breath ...

treestar

(82,383 posts)
139. But then nobody knew Obama in college
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 06:04 PM
Aug 2012

Nobody remembered him and that is another Great Mystery and Proof he was born in Kenya.

mzmolly

(50,992 posts)
141. Please don't refer to our President as B.O.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 06:24 PM
Aug 2012

I'm sure some will try and trot out the tired Sinclair lie, again. But, I think Sinclair is as politically 'dangerous' to the President, as he was the first time he reared his hideous, lying face. < (My constitutionally protected opinion.) In other words, the POS is irrelevant, to anyone but the dumb-asses who give him money.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
144. It must be really really important if it's on FB
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:35 PM
Aug 2012

That means some friend of somebody else said something.

Incitatus

(5,317 posts)
146. Anything real and damaging from his past would
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:46 PM
Aug 2012

have came out by now. Lies didn't work in 08 and they are not going to work now

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