Exactly. The grace period has expired.

In my opinion, half of this post is reasonable (acknowledge Obama as the presumptive nominee) the other half (quash any dis-consent) is nonsense.

Anywhere else, I would be called a parody troll for making that comment.  Here, it is exactly what the Queen of the site is still saying and getting rec'd up for....

jesus.

lock step in line.  This is the type of tone that is offensive and abusive.

I am a HRC supporter who will vote for Obama.  But this type of offensive "pony-up" BS (how many diaries are needed for this?) is just insulting the vast majority of HRC supporters who will vote for him.

The Clinton supporters are right, he doesn't have it locked up until the convention.  The Super Delegates can still hand her the victory at the convention, if anything new and highly damaging comes out about Obama.  Or any other cosmic shift makes him seem unelectable.

That said I think some limits need to be placed on what arguments can be used in support of Clinton.  The kind that just encourage people to cross over and vote Republican, or discourage voting in the General Election for Democrats should not be allowed.  But if it is not proRepublican or purely destructive it should certainly be welcome here.  The intellectually dishonest attack diaries, or the push poll like questioning diaries should not be allowed.

Here is my objection to this.  It sounds like a BO supporter imposed loyality test.  BO is open to criticism.  Just as HRC is.  IMHO this sounds like a list of what people can and can not say and the start of the posting police .  I just think that is not helpful or honest.  Just saying.

david

For those who think it's a lockstep mindwash, I would simply say that we're asking MyDD to back up what it says are guidelines in the "About MyDD" section of the site.

"Users who are excessively bashing the Democratic Party, or being Republican trolls, will be banned."

Since Obama is the head of the party now, excessively bashing him IS bashing the party. Also, Republican trolls have been openly operating here for quite some time.

That "grace period" is over. Time to enforce the rules.

And again, Obama should not be immune to criticism - here or anywhere else.

But people who post almost only to criticize him, and mock him in their signatures have no place here.

I am not saying you can't criticize him. I was speaking of trashing him. Which is far different than finding faults in him and talking about how to fix them. Outright trashing is the stuff of Michael Begala...etc

Amen.  

I don't think it needs to be done right away however.  Hillary is still giving the dead enders hope.  At this point they are just following her lead.  Once Hillary concedes then MyDD should have a house cleaning.  Until then we will be able to see which Clinton supporters are reasonable and which ones are the true dead enders.  Hopefully the site will clean itself and most if not all of the Clinton supporters will get on board.  

So much for the value of loyal opposition or the thought that maybe, just maybe the Clinton side of the party has something to contribute that doesn't come from the mouth of Barack the Great.
As for me -- you all can just entertain yourselves in your own self-congratulatory playpen. We'll be around as the ship gets consumed in flames.

Bye Bye

AGAIN, no one is saying Obama must be free from criticism.

I could (and undoubtedly will) start several diaries about campaign missteps or adjustments I think he needs to make in the general.

However, people who post repeatedly to slam him, mock him in their signatures, and slam his supporters shouldn't be tolerated.

And those people are NOT hard to identify.

Now that the primary is behind us, MyDD can be a source(once again)for the progress of Candidates in different States, from those involved in a specific campaign. Issues and information that fly below the radar...

Things like 3 troops killed and other news concerning our Iraq Occupation.
http://icasualties.org/oif/

I have every confidence that the spectrum of diaries will widen...It may take a week or so before the flood of Clinton v. Obama stuff dies down.

Enjoy your Day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-UlTE_m Hs

I avoided this diary because I knew it was going to shit disurb even though I am sure you have the best of intentions.

I have no problem with anyone pointing out when Obama has a position that needs some discussion, dissection and even critism.  No candidate has 100 percent of the platform I wish I could see or 100 percent of positions I support.

That said, there is a huge difference between the aforementioned constructive critism/disagreement and posters who run around yapping about M. Obama tapes, fingergate, likening Obama to an abusive husband and his candidacy to some third world dictators.  Those are all over the top and frankly, trollish.  If one took Obamas name out and replaced it with Clinton's name I am sure that you can see how unacceptable they are (and those diaries are equally unnacceptable and have no place on this site).

They have to make it very clear to the Clinton supporters here that this as of today is a OBAMA supporting blog. 100%. The front page needs a post that makes it very very clear that any refusal to support Obama or any trashing of Obama will be not tolerated at all now that his the official nominee.Jerome has to make it very clear he is 100% behind Obama."--Cheebs.

Demands & Preconditions, Bush Redux  Anyone? This diary is exhibit A as to why there is unease with Obama. Too many of his supporters display an instinctive tendency towards suppression and  censorship that is profoundly anti-democratic. If this diarist gets to indulge his latent inner fascism and power play fantasies MyDD will soon become My Direct Dictatorship. However the demands are so irrational one can only assume this is, well,  snark.

 it will have to enforce the rules at some point.

mikey2008 and architek, for example, who can't charitably be considered on our side by anyone reasonable.

Yet Jerome ignores them.  How long does that continue?  Is this really a site for Democrats?  It's hard to tell today.

for HRC's endorsement. If her "supporters" refuse to follow her lead and continue to trash the nominee, that's the point at which I think the MyDD controllers should take action.