"I am not far left, as you put it. My point is, that is seems ok for people on here to attack Obama, or whoever for what they say and do. But, when someone wants to say something about THEM, by what we see in their posts, then it is an attack. What is the difference? Again, it's a double standard. Also, unless you are in the inner circle, I don't care how much you read, you are still at the will of the press as to what you ACTUALLY know. For people to post on here, and say they know this or that, are tunnel-visioned. If you have thin skin, and can't take when someone disagrees with your post, or sees something in your post that gives them an opinion of you, that's too bad. How do you think YOU get an opinion of a president? By the same way, hearing reports, reading articles, etc etc. So, what's good for the goose, is good for the gander. Don't expect everyone to agree with the way you think. "

Bravo RCT!!

Of course one of the reactionary's best tools is to attack the public official "ad hominem" personally, but then become "personally" offended when one raises the possibility that point.

Sarah Palin is the master at this: Attacks everyone and everything she says she hates, calling them all sorts of ad hominen names: liars, socialists, Marxists,elites, anti-Americans, and anti-Christian (in other words Jews) and then screams when the press don;t kow-tow to her manipulating message.

She then parades her kids everywhere while bragging about their strong family values & then resents when people raise questions about her promiscuous daughter or their two drug/alcohol abusing minors. (I'm not counting Letterman, whose joke about A-Rod, not her daughter, was way over the line of decency.)

Let's face it- a certain fringe group is angry and won't accept Obama's win no matter what. How do you identify them. Simple:

-Obama's not a citizen
-Obama's a Muslim
-Obama's church minister's opinions
-"Socialist"
-America "hater" or "apologist"
-Tea bagging
-Favors regressive Consumption tax, so called "Fair Tax"

If you see any one of these, and I'm sure I left out others, you're bound to find fringe individuals basically parrotting the words of Limbaugh, Coulter, Boortz or other dittoheads. In fact, they're proud to be called "dittoheads"- meaning they have no need to think, just repeat verbatim the lines they hear from the "new" leadership of the Republic/Conservative leadership.

Not that there is ANYONE here that falls into this category. Just thought I'd share my observations.