in a long time.  

Her reference to him as "Barack Hussein Obama" indicates she's not in a good place.

Her last three diaries have been all suspicion and no validity.  

She was proven wrong in her oddly worded pro-PUMA diary that claimed the entire mid-east trip was staged.  Within the diary there was a mountain of evidence to the contrary--which she chose to completely ignore in favor of her own fictitious conjecture based on a short clip from Andrea Mitchell.  

And then there was the "Show me the money" diary in which she basically paraphrased David Brooks' column from earlier in the week.  That's fine, they were both poor opinion pieces in which they were complaining that Obama made no real goofs on the trip so they could only go after him on a supposed lack of depth.

And now this issue.  I defended her right to claim that she had proof by uprating a comment that I very much disagreed with.  But she went too far by acting as though everyone who disagreed with her was a fool.  

You been had

At this point she was wrong and she owes folks here an apology unless she can offer proof of her claim.  If not, I think she will have lost any credibility she has gained since the end of the primary wars.  No one here will have accomplished that for her.  It will be her own doing.  And it will be based on a series of incidents, not just a single mistake.

They may be over, but though Linfar is no PUMA, she proved herself - how shall I put it? - 'not a friend' to the presumptive democratic nominee at that moment.

Given all the attempts at reconciliation that have gone on here, I think a sense of betrayal is completely understandable

Respectfully, you've laid out your argument well.  The fact that I am not persuaded is no dig against you.  I am sympathetic to your point.

However conciliatory I try to be (and that is my first instinct), I will not sit idly by whilst my erstwhile colleagues smear our nominee, show no willingness to comport their views with reality, show no contrition, and vow to repeat the whole thing.

Between Linfar and Chitowndenny they had, what, three or four diaries in which to push the smear?  Intended or not.

Is this a therapy session or a political blog?

Reaper0bot's diary is important because it counters a very damaging and mendacious smear about the democratic nominee from a major progressive blog.

Many many people read this blog who don't comment. Journalists and commentators refer to it, and sample the state of progressive support from the diaries and comments here.

In light of that, Linfar's diary and subsequent comments were highly counterproductive and in essence, a stab in the back for many fellow democrats.

Nobody needs a grovelling apology from Linfar: what we want is for the allegation to be removed. Simple as that.

She's smeared dirt on someone. Her moral duty is at least to wipe some of it off. And this diarist has done great job cleaning up the smear, and setting the record straight,

Your argument would have far more weight if the comments didn't originate in a diary entitled "You know who you are, and you owe an apology". Linfar/Denny both started the situation by quoting a false, retracted and discredited rumor. They kept digging by quoting more sources, hoping people wouldn't notice that their sources all boiled down to the same retracted story.

All the while, they kept telling us we needed to apologize to them for questioning their story. This diary, while perhaps not particularly motivational for the duo who pushed the false, retracted and discredited rumor, does serve to reinforce an important point: the "Obama leaked his own prayer" was a false, retracted and discredited rumor. If they have any evidence to counter that claim, we welcome it. But no one should make false, retracted and discredited claims about presidential candidates, especially about a Democratic one on a site with a declared pro-Democratic agenda, without being held accountable.

(Just to hammer home the "false, retracted and discredited" portion, the student himself spoke about the incident... Three days ago)

Dude, reel it in!

'Fluffer'...'Below the belt'...get it?
Your comment was unintentionally funny.

Good lord, no one is calling anyone a, as you so colorfully put it, cock-sucking whore.

McCain-loving, Obama-hating, pathological troll?

Oh wait, I forgot, she's your friend, so it's perfectly cool when she calls a brilliant, accomplished Democrat "Paris Hilton."

$50 says that your friend Catfish is a lot closer in IQ and personal merit to Paris Hilton than she is to Barack Obama.

Just a McCain-loving lowlife troll.

As an agnostic with a deep respect for the Jewish faith (my boyfriend is Jewish, and I often go to services with him), I was really hurt by this whole thing. Especially after I saw the actual video of the students pulling a number of prayers out of the wailing wall that belonged to other people and their god and just throwing them on the ground as if they were nothing.  

I'm offended that the matter of one man's faith and his respect for other religions could be compartmentalized the same way as a common, trivial political issue.   To believe that Obama had his campaign staff steal the paper from the wailing wall and give it to the press goes into a realm beyond normal cynicism.  Because if there were any truth to it (which of course there isn't) imo that should be a candidacy breaking moment.