why do people hate obama so much?

True enough. But in all honesty, I only know of 2 posters here who habitually pick at Obama, and only 1 of them you could make the "hate" case for. I see a lot of folks who do manage to make anti-Obama admin posts. But they're usually very specific, with substance, and don't simply flame the guy without cause. I do see a lot of folks on the "he's a Muslim" and "he's not a citizen" bandwagon. But I'm not sure I'd classify this as hating someone either. Bush definitely had more conspiracies floating around him - 911 plot, war for oil, blew up the levee, intentionally withheld help to kill black people, illuminati Cheney puppet, one-worlder, etc. I wouldn't necessarilly call people holding those opinions hateful in all cases. Ridiculous and not invited to my imaginary beach mansion? Yes. Hateful? Ahh... But I do know there's a lot of "hate" elsewhere. People on the Internet tend to act a lot more ignorant than people I've met in real life. YouTube comments are a prime example of the basement dwellers you'll probably never see outside. So if oOjopakOo is basing that off of net comments, then it does make a little more sense.

the poster is not from the states - if you just looked at mylot and similar sites you might pick up a rather misleading idea of american opinion...personally i think it's great, does wonders for developing stereotypes

i have come across some utterly vile sites online. they are written by, i fervantly hope, solely people with internet access in their padded cells. mylot is full of people with very strong, and sometimes very silly, opinions but not quite in the same league. mostly. there's a couple of exceptions. and they tend to be the loudest and what a newbie would most likely see. so you have upgraded your imaginary beach hutch to an imaginary beach mansion have you? congratulations.

well from the pro-obama things i see in the net i see more than twice the number of anti stuff. well as you can see i dont live in the us so the one thing i can know is thru the tv or the net which is sometimes biased. that is why i posted this discussion.

i don't either, although i have been there and met lots of americans. shallow waters make the most noise might have something in it. it is usually extremists that spend a lot of time yelling on the internet, and the majority doesn't feel the need to.

yes i also feel the same too. but ive seen people blaming him for no reason at all or reasons that you cant connect to him.

It's a great shame that people are blaming him for much of what Bush has done, and that he is unable to change that in the face of entrenched opposition.

What about when he is doing the EXACT same things as Bush? He promised to fight the Patriot Act that Bush put into place and instead he's extended and expanded it. He promised to have all troops out of Iraq within 16 months and it has now been 18 months and he's now decided to keep troops in Iraq. That was McCain's plan and Obama criticized him heavily for it. He's continued Bush's inaction on the border and much like Bush he hasn't hesitated to violate the constitution whenever possible.

you can't blame Bush because obama has done nothing useful in office. If the last 8 years have been so bad then why hasn't obama done something to change it? all he has done for the last year is 8itch about health care and now he has forced that down are gullet what has he done?

yes i have seen this hype also seen some people cried when he was elected and such. im also one of the hyped ones before.