I can only speak for myself, but no, OFA, I don't want to host a party for the President

[DefenseLawyer]

Stop calling me. Stop texting me. I think we need to see other people. We both need our space. It's not you, it's me. We can still be friends. Who knows, maybe someday... well, we'll see.

[gateley]

1. I'd be more than willing (if I had a place to host it). He's going

to need all the help he can get, and I will do what it takes to help him get the votes to defeat the Republican candidate.

[BigDemVoter]

7. Thank You. . .

I must say that I have a visceral dislike of Obama, but no Repuke will ever know I don't care for him. . . As far as Repigs are concerned, I'm in love with him (Obama). I would never voice any negative opinion about Obama in front of a repig. As I said, I will only say positive things about Obama in front of repigs & will hold whatever reservations I have about Obama for DemocraticUnderground.com!

[murielm99]

10. That's what I always do.

If I dislike a Democrat or his policies, I say so here, or to my family. I never say anything where a repubbie might possibly hear it.

[MADem]

11. +1 nt

[SaveAmerica]

2. Hopefully you won't need a restraining order!

[Marie Marie]

4. Don't think that you will be needing that since

he has already began seeing other people and they all seem to be to his right.

[emulatorloo]

3. You would have better luck getting off the OFA list if you contacted them directly

[uppityperson]

22. But it's more fun to gossip on an internet forum, you can get people agreeing and disagreeing

Then you get to snark back or say "yeah, YOU understand" while patting yourself on the back.

[bigwillq]

5. Did you tell them that?

I am sure you can get off their call/text list.

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. take a chill. you feel bad now..but when you realize that helping

him is infinitely better than an alternative wingnut...???

[DefenseLawyer]

8. He only hits me when I do something to deserve it

He's really sweet to me sometimes, honest. He doesn't mean it. It's just stress. I just need to do a better job taking care of him and everything would be okay.

[MADem]

12. Oh please. Pack your bag, call a cab, and check in to the shelter.

Then see a lawyer and get a divorce. If you don't like it, leave. Don't use it as an attention-seeking device.

Metaphorically speaking, of course....

[readmoreoften]

14. So what you're saying is: leave.

[MADem]

15. No, I'm saying this:

Stop using a battered wife metaphor to illustrate dissatisfaction with a politician's course of action. It sucks on a number of levels. It's childish, it is inaccurate, it is disrespectful to women who actually do have the shit kicked out of them, and it's a way to focus all of the attention on the aggrieved individual who isn't getting everything they thought they "deserved" out of the politician--who is a person, not Santa sent to make a very small segment of the Big Tent Democratic Party "happy" with decisions that are taken by a large group of people (the Congress of the United States).

It's whining at its worst. I won't go into discussions about ponies, but that's where my thoughts are when I read that kind of stuff.

[DefenseLawyer]

17. I think that was kind of the point

I say essentially "I'm leaving. It's over." and the response I got was, "chill out, hang in there, he's better than the alternative". It struck me what bad advice that is to someone in a bad relationship. Staying "with someone" because you are afraid of the alternative isn't a reason to stay. And really, those of you who continue to back this administration no matter what don't really seem to ever offer any other reason why we should stay.

[MADem]

18. Well, it's not your hypothetical "abuser" telling you to "chill out."

I simply have no patience for GBCW rants. We have an election coming up in no time, and we don't need still more voter suppression in the run-up. Bottom line--the Democratic candidate will be the incumbent. The incumbent beats anything the GOP will put up. All voter suppression will do is impact both that contest and the Senate/House ones.

I come to a "Democratic" message board to hear ways we can strengthen our party, not to listen to a "You belong to a party that SUCKS, man" series of whines. There is no "constructive criticism" here. It's all left-of-left (so far left they're on the far edge of the right wing) negativity, and I'm getting sick of it.

[DefenseLawyer]

21. I don't know you. You don't know me.

But I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I've given 10 times more money to the Democratic Party in my lifetime than you have. I was a max donor to President Obama in 2008. We're you? Don't presume to preach to me about what it is to be a "good Democrat". People like you treat politics like being in a fraternity or cheering on a sports team. People like you treat joining the Democratic Party like joining the Rotary Club. We get together, have a few drinks, hopefully do some good things along the way, but in any case we can always identify with the club. I'm sorry, I can't simply blindly support policies which I diametrically oppose simply so I can be a "team player". So, no offense, but frankly I don't give 2 cents for what you are getting sick of. There are rapidly becoming more of me than there are of you.

[FredStembottom]

23. Exactly.

Feeling the pain of betrayal makes no one guilty of anything.

(.... and I'm still trying to understand how some very prolific DU posters arrived at the conclusion that pounding, pounding, pounding on the disappointed and suffering would engender enthusiasm for the Democratic Party :freak:)

[MADem]

24. I was a max donor to Clinton...sorry.

And I drove HUNDREDS of people to the polls, does that count?

I am pretty old--I may just have you beat on the "total contributions," but are you saying that your words have more value than mine because you MAY have given more money to the party? Sure sounds like that's what you're insinuating.

Think on that. I never agreed with the Supreme Court ruling that money equals speech. I always thought the poor fuckers deserved a say, too, in a real democracy.

I'm not the Rotarian type. I simply think that a lot of this pitchin-n-bitchin' could be stowed until we have a lame duck in office, who isn't fighting for a second term. Once he's 'safe,' then he can stand and deliver, and if he doesn't, well, that's the time for carping.

You don't have to share my opinions, they're mine and mine alone, so go on and be a little less defensive. It's better for the heart, you'll live longer.

[undeterred]

9. That argument isn't going to be enough to get most of us

to do more than vote for him.

Its not going to get me to work on a campaign or give money or go door to door and defend a man who hasn't had my back. If I feel like I am voting for the "lesser of two evils" then I'm hardly going to be saying he's "infinitely better" than the alternative.

[JVS]

13. I'll host a party, but only if everyone brings a bottle of liquor and then we drink all the liquor.

Then when we're all liquored up, we can take over the local government and get more liquor.

[JVS]

16. You know, you could host a party and then hijack it with your own political agenda.

Once you get everyone there you can say something like "Tonight, I'd like to deliver a 30 minute lecture on the need to transform the existing Democratic party into a revolutionary party according to classical Marxist-Leninist theory. Since this is my house, if you don't like it, I cordially invite you to get the fuck out now. After the lecture, we'll have some drinks, snacks, and conversation." Why not use the resources of the existing organization to your benefit?

[Rex]

19. Now don't be that way...

[Bluebear]

20. A going away party.