"What Would Obama Do?" is not a religious reference. This was just a fun way to remind supporters to remain positive during the campaign, to not engage in negative politics or partisan divisions. This is modelled after other celebrity "what would" sayings, such as "What Would Oprah Do?" "What Would Ozzy Do?" "What Would George Do?" (about George Washington), and hundreds of others. We have no intention of relating Barack Obama to Jesus or any other religious entity.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Republican Operation "whatevers"

Someone forwarded a link to an interesting article about yet another Republican Operation something that is designed to cause disruption amongst Democrats.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/18/84042/4327

I witnessed Operation Chaos myself - Rush Limbaugh's plan to disrupt the Democratic Primary by asking Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary in the Democratic Primary instead of voting in the Republican primary, so I know these things are real. So how do we respond to this?

Remember this - as these people lurk for the sake of hurting us, they're also seeing us be friendly, fair, intelligent and caring. Read Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, to see how he handles racists comments, etc. These people are simply uninformed. They've been told we "liberals" are elitist godless monsters, and tend to stick to a couple of "news" outlets - FoxNews, Limbaugh, etc. that reinforce those mistaken stereotypes. So this is an opportunity! By doing what Obama would do, being respectful, staying out of baited arguments, giving intelligent discourse, we have the opportunity to reveal ourselves to be who we really are. It's unlikely, but still possible, to move some of these people over while they lurk, or at least diffuse their anger. It's simply another good reason to stay on point and stay positive.

Before you respond to any emotional, divisive post or comment in groups, blogs or forums, ask yourself these things:

1. Could this be a troll (someone who is just trying to cause trouble)?

2. Am I reading this right (often we read into things what the person didn't intend - a weakness of the typed word versus the spoken word)?

3. What would Obama do in the same situation? Would he attack?

posted by Chuck Lasker at 4:44 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger alyceclover said...

Good suggestions. I used to leave very polite (and long) comments refuting lies or misinformation. Then I realized the trolls were often not bothering to read a comment and I got mad.

I generally recognize a troll and verify by first checking for a profile and how long the blogger has been a member and simply report the post.

Yet it is frustrating to be constantly verbally attacked (or hearing~reading~attacks on Obama).

I used to suggest to Obama bloggers (via posts) not to get caught up in the reacting to button pushing of Senator Clinton. To keep the focus on Obama.

I own the problem of being out of patience and reacting emotionally. I decided my best thing to do is simply stop being involved. When I read a news article, and want to leave a comment, I told myself not to read other people's comments.

Just this morning I slipped and read a few. : >

June 19, 2008 1:31 PM

 

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* "What Would Obama Do?" is not a religious reference. This is just a fun way to remind supporters to remain positive, to not engage in negative politics or partisan divisions. This is modelled after other celebrity "what would" sayings, such as "What Would Oprah Do?" "What Would Ozzy Do?" "What Would George Do?" (about George Washington), and hundreds of others. We have no intention of relating Barack Obama to Jesus or any other religious entity.