It makes me wonder is you actually read Bud White’s diary on Obama and Wallace, Linfar? He didn’t say that Obama was racist; he said that Obama used a racial dog whistle to get votes. If someone’s going to judge, not to mention censor they should at least pay attention to details. I know that White went to battle for your freedom of speech with MyDD.

Here’s what White says about his diary being banned on his own website:
“I realize the title of my diary was provocative, but of course that was the intent. I clearly state in the diary that Barack Obama is not the overt racist of George Wallace. I was pointing out that racial politics has been used by the Obama campaign, and I fully documented this, citing Sean Wilentz of The New Republic and Christopher Hitchens.
As you know, Paul Krugman and David Brooks have been debating Reagan’s use of an alleged racist dog-whistle at the beginning of his campaign in Mississippi in 1980. Reagan, or Wallace, or Obama’s use of a racial dog-whistle are all equally abhorrent to me.
No where in the diary did I accuse anyone of being a racist, and I stressed the unacceptability of racial politics. That was the point of the diary.

I am worried and angered at the tactics of the big liberal blogs towards Mrs. Clinton. For example, Markos accused the Clinton campaign of darkening a picture of Obama for an ad, an accusation which was false but which obviously could make many feel that the Clintons were racists, accusations which I’ve read at TMP, Dkos, and other places without censure.
It’s this relentless negativity towards Mrs. Clinton and the willingness to say anything which inspired me to write that piece. I’m concerned about our coalition and the extremes some will go to tar the Clintons.” http://noratings.blogspot.com/

No, Ms. Smith, it’s my dream!! I DON’T TRUST OBAMA!!

As for MyDD What? First I had to endure years of hateful, despicable trashing of one of the most skillful Democratic presidents we’ve had since JFK and now, I’m subjected to the same from my own party! I’m fed up with the Obama supporters! This is not some high school popularity contest here, this is my financial future!

Thanks to Larry for keeping the record straight!!!

Published

And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

Thanks for providing a link to her piece. Her being banned for this makes no sense. Hasn’t MyDD become a pro-Clinton blog?
Hard to keep up!

Stories like hers prompted this author to say the things that she does:

America, she says, should end affirmative action. She cites several reasons, including the possibility that the racial tensions it creates will eventually explode in violence. She recommends that the country create a new, “race-neutral” policy to lift the disadvantaged out of poverty.
http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Carol_Swain.html

Thank you for reminding me — it is correct that there are many mature, good people at MyDD; and I do hope they stick it out. I did not mean to imply through my clumsy writing that MyDD was being monopolized by an unfortunate group. at least yet. I was just especially unhappy at the way they treated one blogger I particularly liked, and who asked politely why she had received a warning. That was the part that got me. I am not free from using hyperbole. But she asked a fair question, I thought. The non-response to her fair question was Kafkaesque.

I have friends who used to be somewhat sane telling me Obama must win at all costs. It’s really scary because they really mean at all costs, forget democracy, forget values, forget friendships, forget reason.

Obama will be McGovern by the time the GOP gets through with him, and if he wins, I’m afraid he’ll be another Jimmy Carter.

I’m afraid he’ll be another “W” if he gets elected: cronyism, self-importance, a “uniter” who unites by elimination, and “just words”.

Perhaps we passed on the streets of Berkeley in the ’60s. Perhaps we walked together in the SF Moratorium. Perhaps we’ve never been in the same city at the same time.

But I stand by you now, and that beautifully written, soul-baring diary of yours.

God’s peace to you.

MyDD seems to have become a haven for the fear-filled, those who cannot see life in all its complexity, and perhaps those who just like to beat up on other people.

Ultimately, yes, though I haven’t written off MYDD.

It was what it was, at the very least they didn’t censor in the manner K$$ did, and they were more tolerant about dissent.

This recent event is unfortunate.

I think most of the bloggerz boyz are unskilled and unsophisticated, in far, far over their heads.

We only see the world we make, we tend to think we’re the center, we’re the best, but that isn’t true, others are out there, trying to manipulate us, those with other agendas, even, manipulate Greenberg- Truarig, say.

All this self importance is breathtaking.

I posted at MyDD under the name katmandu1 for a couple of weeks I guess, as a Hillary supporter, but also as someone who maintained to Obama objectors that their candidate had not been properly vetted. I stressed that the last thing the party needed was an October surprise (and you know Mr. Rove is a very smart man who will have at least one).

My last diary was in honor of TexasDarlin, who also was booted off. I believe I said something like totalitarianism from either the left or right is not pretty. You can look at dictatorships in history and see the excesses and abuses of both sides.

Somehow, the totalitarian people on the left think they are immune from that tendency. They are not — they are blind to it.

In my view, people afraid of debate and dissent, such as the Bush Administration, and, sadly, those at MyDD, are people filled with fear of the unknown. They fear loss of control. They want a certain path to be followed, as if somehow agreeing with them validates the belief system they’ve constructed, and makes life safer for them. Uh, uh. Life is not like that. Think of the religious fanatics who scream at the slightest amount of disagreement. One might say, “well, gee, there are lots of people who don’t really believe one needs to wear a veil, or eat wafers, or drink wine, or not drink wine, etc., to get to heaven” and they go nutso.

That is the mentality of a fear-filled person.

There are also some Obama supporters (and I am sure, supporters of other candidates) who suffer from what I did as a youth. “I know everything” I thought at 21, 25, and about up to 30. Then I had my first shock — I began to study economics in depth and learned that when using regulation to assist the less fortunate one must be very careful so as not to waste the effort or, even worse, end up harming them. I learned about things like cost-benefit analysis — you know we can build cars that are nearly perfectly safe, but almost no one could afford to drive them. In other words, life is a balance, it is looking at different sides to an issue.

MyDD seems to have become a haven for the fear-filled, those who cannot see life in all its complexity, and perhaps those who just like to beat up on other people.

I hope you will write here; I’ve just added this blog to my list of places to visit. And if anyone wants to start an OurDD site, I’ll contribute.