Originally Posted by
EL Jimbo
Yes, it is common practice to pick on the opposition leader. However, typically it sticks to legitimate issues. Bush was attacked repeatedly over his "Mission Accomplished" statement, the fact it sometimes appeared more like the Cheney Administration, and a variety of other topically related issue.
The difference with how the Tea Party has continually attacked Obama is that they've gone beyond topical issues and have gone to great lengths to "manufacture rage" over anything and everything they can think of.
How many different versions of his birth certificate did he have to show and STILL people don't believe he's legitimate?
I still don't know what the hell a "terrorist fist bump" is, but apparently Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin do.
It is a part of the job as President to travel across the globe visiting allies and trade partners in an official capacity...until Obama takes office and the Tea Party attacked his first official trip as being a "waste of money".
Damn near every modern President has been a golfer [[hell, Eisenhower had a tree named after him at Augusta). Yet somehow it only becomes a controversy now? Why is that?
Bush spent more days of his administration away from the White House on vacation of any modern President, yet every time he leaves town he gets HAMMERED by the Right.
At some point it has to get exhausting being constantly pissed off about made up controversies. It also makes people look like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.