Republished after briefly checking in on the pie fights lately. I think this diary still not only is relevent, it's the point. I want to add one thing though:
If anything, people now have to be more careful than ever.
Because the terrorists might win! That is, if you still believe that you can get change you can believe in by stating your policy differences with the president, on a blog. And that might now make you a racist, nightriding KKKer.
TTFN,
NL
There has been a lot written lately about the acceptability of criticizing President Obama. What way is best, what kind of criticism is effective, whether it should be done at all.
These are important questions, and I am proud of how this community has tackled this with such maturity.
Some think criticism is fine, as long as it doesn't attack the president personally. I wasn't sure how to do that without using his name or without referring to his behavior. So I was starting to get a bit puzzled and headachy. And some people were angry with me.
Some think, as I did until today, that the best way to hold a politician accountable, is to, like, call, write letters, and post diaries asserting what the actual beef is, in the hopes that the politician will respond to mass pressure. What I found out is, if that politician is THIS president, this is a no-no. Of course, criticism of the LAST president for the same behavior is A-OK.
That got me even more headachy. I HATE headaches.
Then I found out I could be a Republican. That’s when I knew something had to change.
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