It's a site totally unwilling to hear any criticism of Obama, especially that which compares Obama to Bush in a way that suggests they may not be so different, and that's why it's valuable that you made the effort to have a real conversation.

He's wasting his time over there. I'll note for the umpteenth time on this site that dkos is not a forum for free flow discussion of liberal ideas - it is a forum to get Democrats elected to office in the US and keep them there. The site was cultivated with this in mind from the beginning, and the user base behaves accordingly. Given the kill or be killed environment of electoral politics in the US, there is no room for introspection of any sort. Stop trying to make that site into something it isn't.

you are the media you consume.