What happened on DU? since the day after the election there has been one critical post about Obama

[WI_DEM]

after the other on these pages. Sometimes I feel like I accidentally wandered onto Freeperville.

[jobycom]

1. More likely Freeperville wandered over here, since there's nothing to do there.

[Tribetime]

2. I was thinking that myself yesterday n/t

[onehandle]

3. Not from me. He wasn't my first choice, but apparently he should have been.

My wife was right. Dammit!

[Drunken Irishman]

4. We eat our own.

I'm just surprised we waited until AFTER the election to do it and not DURING the election like we've done so well the past 8 years.

[phantom power]

5. One of the things we Democrats like about democracy...

is our freedom to have opinions about our political leaders. We are even allowed to disagree with what they do. We can even disagree with representatives from our own party. Even if we voted for them personally!

I realize that whole bit has been out of fashion for the last 8 years, but we should get back into practice!

[Buzz Clik]

9. Yeah, well. Most people wait until some decisions have been made before dissenting.

Not at DU. It's all pre-emptive.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Dysfunctionality. Drama. Unquenched desire for attention.

Situation normal at DU.

Bring your own straitjacket.

[jillan]

7. It was a short honeymoon, wasn't it?

[Posteritatis]

8. Folks have been wired for complaining after the last eight years

Outrage is addictive, and Bush has created quite a few junkies.

A lot of people are also just setting themselves up to continue it. Every other person probably wanted (and even expected!) their own personal physical manifestation of their inner ideological purity, which guarantees they're going to be disappointed. As well, this place has gotten so incredibly polarized that quite a few people think anyone who disagrees with them simply must really be a conservative. (And to make things even worse, I hear Obama has fewer than one thousand posts here! Onoes! We all seem to know what that means!)

Basically, the goalposts for "progressive" and "conservative" are both sitting on wet ice right now, easily moved at the slightest provocation.

[DJ13]

10. The Liberal base helped him gain the nomination and win the GE

Theres nothing wrong in them expecting Obama to recognize their hard work and dedication by trying to keep him on the path towards the change away from the "politics of old" he campaigned on.

Cant blame them for expressing doubts about Obama's over reliance on former Clinton administration people.

Thats hardly the change they are expecting.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. The liberal base isn't the only reason Obama won.

This is where people need to STFU, because if you try and please every group of support that put you in office, you get fucked every which way.

Latinos
Catholics
Gays
Blacks
Moderates
Conservatives
Liberals
Whites

They all helped put Obama in office in some way or another. He can't please them all, or even most of them and people need to realize this.

[WI_DEM]

13. And what appointments to the cabinet has he made?

[EFerrari]

11. I gave Obama my vote, not my brain. n/t

[WI_DEM]

15. True, but could people withhold judgement until he actually makes decisions?

rather than getting all caught up in media speculation. The guy had just won the election before people around here began venting and speculating and letting themselves get all out of joint.

[EFerrari]

19. We have plenty of reasons to avoid buying in to media Cr@p. Agreed. n/t

[BeFree]

14. heh

Obama hasn't hanged Lieberman from the capitol building like I wanted! I'm pissed. That's it, I'm going green next time.

[Skwmom]

16. We are not Bush supporters.

[Jennicut]

17. Post traumatic stress syndrome from Shrub/Cheney

We still expect to hate our (soon to be) president. It will take years to recover. I need a drink to come to the DU boards however. It was one big kumbaya fest for about a day. Now. its crap-ville. Where's my beer?

[Bake]

18. The Ideological Purity Police (TM) has been busy.

During the primaries they were busily squashing any support for Dem candidates other than President-elect Obama. During the general election they countenanced no criticism of the Democratic nominee.

Now that the nominee is the President-elect, they are no longer relevant, so they turn on their own party if any cabinet appointment, chief of staff, etc. is not at least 10 feet to the left of Dennis Kucinich. It's funny, really.

It's what DU does.

Bake

[TwilightZone]

20. I think some are still reliving the primaries.

Heck, some are still reliving the '04 primaries.

[Barack_America]

21. He won the election. Our goal was achieved.

Now we can return to the dissent and discussions that our democracy was founded on.

[Elidor]

22. How dare these fuckers criticize an elected representative!

Don't they know this is not about them? It's all about Obama!

[SwampG8r]

23. there are 2 fronts right now

the purists vrs everyone (themselves included)
and the same old clinton love/hate cult of personality stream thats been rolling since before i joined DU

[pecwae]

24. SSDD & BAU,

[A-Schwarzenegger]

25. W's a lame duck, McCain's an old man again---

Sarah's just a lousy stand-up.
Nowhere to put that animus for the Repubes.
Well, we can do what Dems do
when theyre on top & want to have fun--
circular firing squad jerk.
The perils of victory.