Jim Lad,

At the risk of running you off... ;-)

If you are looking for a double standard shouldn't you be pointing to pro Obama threads and anti-whoever else thread that should have been deleted but were not.

The only threads I have seen deleted lately were from me where they've been folded into other threads and from a pretty politically strident "guest" who seems to be putting other members down and/or picking a fight with every other post.

>>yet hate filled messages like the one I pointed out are perfectly acceptable.<<

I can look at the one you pointed out and perhaps see why it was tolerated, calling some one a "Koolaid drinker" in a political argument is a pretty severe putdown.

>>1.         Koolaid Drinker
People who believe anything they are told. people who refuse to change there minds when confronted with facts.
a koolaid drinker is the liberal democrat who is liberal because they are told they should be. they have made no attempt to decide why the are liberal.
often a koolaid "drinker" simply wants to hate anything a republican does good or bad.
koolaid people are the vocal howard dean wing of the democrat party. the converse of rightwing loonies.
koolaid drinkers are the ones that went first when jim jones said drink.

that earth mama hippy chick is such a sixties burn out wanabe. dude she is just a "koolaid drinker" cut her a break. she listens to air american and npr.<<

Using that phrase is condescending and elitist in the worst sort of way.
I don't like anyone likes to be told that he can't think for himself. Especially when it is not true. It pisses Bobert off, he reacts, but even so it is just Internet banter, isn't it?