[MisterRepublican]

Perhaps Skinner is doing the right thing with allowing other fund-raisers at DU. Yet no one could blame him if he instituted a new policy that allowed no fund-raisers at all.

But Skinner is a weak and ineffective manager of his web forum. He posts "rules" that are seldom followed by the members and selectively enforced by the moderators. One of those "rules" is no personal fund-raising and he definitely broke that one for Andy. Most often the "rules" are used to suppress dissent at DU.

Overall, I think the rules only apply to the "little people" of DU. The elites, like Andy, are above the rules.

[franksolich]

You know, the Grand DUmbo "Skinner" is enough to make one tie himself up in knots, in vexation--because in the end, really, one wishes the Grand DUmbo "Skinner" well.

The Grand DUmbo "Skinner" is no idiot, but he frustrates one in refusing to exercise good judgement--especially when he has all the freedom in the world to exercise judgement, his own web-site.

The only thing I can think of is that the Grand DUmbo "Skinner" has a business on the side (computer graphic design, or something like that), which naturally takes up a great deal of his time and attention, leaving him little left over to tend to DUmmieland.

By the way, the Grand DUmbo "Skinner" and I have a great deal in common, actually, one of them being our academic careers. The Grand DUmbo "Skinner" went to Yale, and was taught by professors from Yale; I went to the University of Nebraska, and some of my favorite teachers were from.....Yale.

[franksolich]

You know, there's something most interesting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=162256&mesg_id=164426

This DUmmie discussion on the much-maligned Bev Harris, from last December.

In every instance, no exceptions, if one replaces "Bev" with the name of the red round one, it exactly parallels.

Exactly. To a tee.