The other day I responded to an entry that pertained to the ratings-bump Obama experienced during the Sotomayor nomination. That comment, which violated no rules, was hidden by a pair of users because they took offense with a single word used to describe the current occupant of the Oval Office. The word is "dictator," and it is the unvarnished truth. Unfortunately, the truth is too much for far too many alleged left-wingers to handle.
The abusers of the rating system are TValley and fbihop. Without offering so much as one word of argument, one challenge to my description of Obama, my comment was hidden for no other reason than the two individuals who troll-rated it found the truth unpleasant. Regardless of whether one agrees with such an assessment of the guy or not, the comment violated no terms of service and did not deserve to be hidden. I request that the hide-rating be annulled and my comment restored to visibility within the thread. I also request more strenuous oversight of the rating privileges so that such abuse is weeded out. Otherwise, we risk this site turning into another Daily Kos.
As of today, the polling company shows that the dictator has a mere fifty-nine percent approval rating overall (source), a significant contrast to polls showing Obama at sixty-seven percent.
05/29/2009
Strongly Approve - 37%
Strongly Disapprove - 27%
Total Approve - 59%
Total Disapprove - 40%
Yesterday the figures were 35% strong approval, 29% strong disapproval, 56% total approval, and 43% total disapproval. Why are the numbers thus? I think it represents the far more accurate reflection of public disapproval with Obama's continuing shift to the far right. Obviously some of the disapproval numbers are coming from extreme right-wingers, the ditto-head segment; we cannot, however, discount the growing number of left-wingers outraged by the dashing of their hopes in the new president.
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