I find that these threads about what some anonymous poster posted are much ado about nothing.
You want to complain, then do some research, follow what types of comments ARE getting pulled, and compare with what aren’t. THAT would be an indictment of the editorial control exercised by the Obama campaign.
It would be easy. Hire someone on elance or rentacoder to do a by-the-minute download of all fresh comments, and then go back a day or two later to do a comparison, logging all that were posted and pulled.
Short of this, I assume that any absurd or offensive post could just as well be posted by the opposition to make the candidate look bad (not that this is needed for Obama.)
Re: “You want to complain, then do some research, follow what types of comments ARE getting pulled, and compare with what aren’t. THAT would be an indictment of the editorial control exercised by the Obama campaign.”
Already done. I created an account at MyBO, and posted negative material (no profanity or hate, though) about Obama. It, and my account, were gone within 36 hours. “Exercise of editorial control” has therefore already been proven beyond any doubt whatsoever.
The site also shows that comments were deleted for “offensive” or “disrespectful” content. The same moderator who deleted my account, “Emily,” deleted another user’s posting about the “Jewish lobby” and counseled him to use “Israel lobby” instead—he posted her letter at MyBO, and that is how I know about it. When I posted the fact (here) that the Obama campaign is telling people to talk about the “Israel lobby,” the thread in which “Emily’s” letter was re-posted vanished within days.
“Exercise of editorial control” has been proven, and it is the exact same issue that compelled MoveOn.org to disable its prized Action Forum in 2006. I am one of the people who nailed MoveOn.org, by the way, and we can nail Obama the same way.