So, would the right try divide us by

[MineralMan]

posting anti-Obama stuff here over and over again? Would something like that even be effective? What do you think?

[Fumesucker]

1. I don't see Obama called a Communist all that often on DU

Or even a socialist for that matter.

[MineralMan]

2. No, but people often accuse him of not being

progressive enough, or accuse him for years of trying to cut SS. So far he has done nothing of the kind.

[jazzimov]

5. And accuse pro-Obama posters of being

part of a "cult of personality".

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. I have seen that as well.

We support a Democratic President on a Democratic site. Ho odd that there are attacks about that.

[Fumesucker]

8. I live in the belly of the red beast, I know how wingnuts think, my own family is infested with them

They mostly suck at playing liberals/progressives because they always project their own take on how liberals and/or progressives think and it seldom bears much resemblance to reality.

Skinner answered a question from Sid the other day in AtA about troll hunting and basically said the troll/zombie hunters are often more trouble than the trolls and zombies.

[MineralMan]

9. So you do not think so?

[Fumesucker]

10. Oh, there's probably a few but I suspect you and I would disagree considerably on who they might be

For instance I had LoZoccolo pegged as a troll way back on DU2, long before DU3 came about.

[HereSince1628]

3. meh. endless echos from the dawn of DU 1.0

We're never going to get past this

[Cha]

4. They can't sell their product so they take down

the opposition any way they can. Propagated by the corporatemedia and various Suckers. Voter Suppression, Lies regarding the President for the rw and the left. Would they use Plants?

What do you think? Is it possible that online posters would fall for lies about President Obama and it would be effective? Let me think.. Yes.

[MineralMan]

6. It seems like a lot of work

for few eyes, though. I cannot see it as an effective strategy.

[Bobbie Jo]

13. You better believe it. nt

[Cha]

14. Ah yes, Bobbie Jo..

there was that!

[BlueJazz]

11. I know full well that there are posters here that are phonies. I've read stories or incidents from..

...fellow/sister DUers and within 10-15 posts, there is someone who tries to insert doubt into the story.

Here's an example: I posted once about a right-wing realtor that was across the street trying to get the women to sell her house.
I won't go into the whole post but shortly after posting the incident, a DUer started asking me questions like...
1. Do you always nose in to your neighbors affairs ?? (She is my friend)
2. How do you know that he was just trying to help her. (yeah..right...offering her 40,000 lower than the house is worth plus lying about the economy)

Anyway...you can spot these fuckers within 3 posts.
They don't DIRECTLY spout right-wing bullshit but they insert doubt where no doubt is warranted.

[bluedigger]

12. Have divide and conquer tactics ever worked?

Amateurs troll, pros disrupt.

[Isoldeblue]

15. They could try

But I doubt they'd succeed. Now if you go over to the Huffington Post, it's downright ugly there with right-wing rethugs attacking posters. I used to really like it there, but then it got so bad, I finally decided to stop going there.

It's much more conducive to mature and friendly discussion here. I am falling in love with DU