I consider Obama to be suspect on the issue of Israel and the Jews, but let’s be frank about it, I’m not convinced he’s any more favorable to Whites, knowing what Wright is like.
Obama has used extremely poor judgment in his relationships. He has complemented Louis Fahrekan (sp?). That in and of itself is extremely troubling. Other relationships are too. And so I say take the guy to task on those points.
Taking him to task for a comment on his forum, that his staff doesn’t monitor, seems rather suspect to me. In your post you said Obama’s team exercises editorial control. That was somewhat misleading in that they don’t monitor the sight, and you should have known that. They don’t review the posts there. WND stated they do take down bad posts, if they are notified. And it seems they do.
Are you notifying them of offensive posts? Has their staff refused to take down offensive posts?
Re: “Taking him to task for a comment on his forum, that his staff doesn’t monitor, seems rather suspect to me. In your post you said Obama’s team exercises editorial control. That was somewhat misleading in that they don’t monitor the sight, and you should have known that.”
I know nothing of the sort (i.e. that they don’t monitor the site). I created a blog in which I posted anti-Obama material, using the same standards of decorum we expect at Free Republic. The postings and my account were history within 36 hours, which suggests that they do monitor the site very closely. I therefore stand by my assertion that they do exercise editorial control. The fact that this control seems highly selective is hardly complimentary to the Obama campaign.
In contrast, Tony Wicher’s material about the “Jewish Lobby” and “Zionist Thought Police” stayed there for more than half a year, and it went under the bus only when it became an issue elsewhere on the Internet. Same for the New Black Panther Party page. Same for a wish that President Bush had been assassinated, and that John McCain, an “old man,” should “visit the undertaker.”
Re: “Are you notifying them of offensive posts? Has their staff refused to take down offensive posts?”
When I last checked, I have not recieved a W2 statement from the Obama campaign. I do not get paid to monitor his site for hate speech that might embarrass his campaign, and to tell him to throw it under the bus before his opponents use it against him.
To answer your question, though, I did report several instances of libelous material (false accusations of crimes) that I did not want to quote elsewhere because I would be repeating the libel, even in a condemnatory context. At least one such item (actual libel) was still online more than a week after I reported it. I won’t repeat the details but it was directed at AIPAC, that “Jewish Lobby” that Obama’s people like to talk about. Libel was even directed at Democrats whom someone or other disliked.