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If this was a Republican in office right now the hipster socialist crowd would be going ape shit over it. Instead, crickets....

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I expect a higher level of debate here than the CNN message boards. I'm disappointed that my expectations were not met.

It's an accurate observation that (a) everyone who knows anything about US politics already knows, but (b) this is a very international community in which as much as 50% of the viewers of this thread might not be in the (a) group. So I'm not really sure why you think it's not a valid observation to post here. If you don't think this article is appropriate for HN, that's fine (and I'm with you on that). Once it is here and once you click through to read the comments, it's not really fair to ding someone for commenting on it IMO.

What 'debate' on HN do you expect about such an article?

> What 'debate' on HN do you expect about such an article?

Something better than "the hipster socialist crowd", which adds nothing to the discussion but makes it harder for that discussion to be useful.

1. It's conjecture, not an accurate observation. 2. It's unnecessarily inflammatory.

The actual socialist/anarchist crowd are going ape shit over it. (For example, Democracy Now! and NSFWCorp, two superb news organizations, are incredibly critical of the Obama administration over this, and many other issues that Obama has been far-right on)

"Weird twitter" is the closest thing I know to "hipster socialist"s, and most that I follow are very critical of the president.

Can you name a "hipster socialist" group that isn't critical of Obama? There are hundreds of Democratic-party affiliated organizations that haven't said a peep about this, but that's because they toe the party line.

NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times.

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