How did a group dedicated to discussion regarding a Democratic POTUS, on an ostensibly ...

[Bolo Boffin]

69. I'm a host of the Barack Obama group.

I've never personally banned anyone from the group, but I get all the emails when it happens (and when it unhappens, as happens on occasion). When I take the time to go check out the posts that occasioned the ban, I invariably find that it was someone who not only posted criticism of Barack Obama in a safe group on the issue, but persisted in it (as in, dug in and posted more or refused to delete the criticism and repost it in a more appropriate place here at DU).

In other words, it's those DU members more insistent on having no limits on expressing their negative opinion on Barack Obama that get the ban there. I'm not surprised that these people look for any reason and way to castigate the Barack Obama group, since they took the time and expended the energy to plant their flag where their flag was not welcome or desired. And please, everyone, do remember how the DU software works: it is impossible to ban someone who has not posted in the group.

And, yes, members of the Barack Obama group do appropriate the insulting title, much as any insulted group will do with other insulting epitaphs. That doesn't mean the epitaph is any less insulting when used by those seeking to insult. That's something a lot of people here should understand without stating.