Look, I suck. I get that.

[JohnnyRingo]

140. I don't think I said that...

...and I hardly crawl from anywhere.

While the martyrdom is a new angle for him, I've noticed over time that his posts follow a certain format. In them, he always picks a populist cause guaranteed to garner support in DU, then uses as few words as possible to tie in Obama as the primary antagonist of our woes. not just sometimes or often, but always.

I'm certainly not in disagreement that the 99% is at a disadvantage, I only find difference in that we can all point our collective fingers at this president for doing nothing to help on every left wing issue we face today.

For a while I thought he was just a post count junkie who puts up five simple sentences following the proven formula of "I've had it with ____, and I'm not going to take it anymore!", and sit back to watch the replies and recs pile up, but given time I've grown to suspect that he may have a deeper motive.

I don't always agree with William Pitt, and he does his share of holding the president to account, but he always pens an excellent piece to make his point. I really like reading his well composed and sometimes wordy style. In the case of this poster, he seems to follow the proven propaganda rule that if it fits on a bumper sticker, everyone will read it, then honk and wave. Whatever the method, this guy always cleverly threads Obama's name into the very brief text to direct the collective rage toward his obviously intended target.

If I were to read this post to someone who never heard of DU, I imagine they'd come away with an assumption that it was written by someone who simply despised this president for one reason or another, and wanted to spread his underlying message that the wrong person is in office. Certainly one gets that impression upon reading his posts on a weekly basis. The format, if you'll notice, is always the same... only the cause is changed in each post.

I don't care if the reason for his (or your) disdain stems from the failure to get Hillary or Kucinich into office back in '08, or if there are other more base motives, but with each and every post it becomes more apparent that his cause is less than that of a liberal activist and more specific to discrediting this president. If that's what it takes to rally DU these days, so be it, but I'm not on board the bandwagon.