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In reply to the discussion: Time to cut the crap. Obama Derangement Syndrome doesn't really exist. [View all]Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Every President so far and every President of the future is fair game for criticism no matter what letter is behind their name and regardless of race, creed, color or gender.
If you apply that criticism even handedly I think that's fair. For instance whatever a Republican criticizes President Obama for, he/she should have done the same for any similar policies Bush enacted.
The reverse is also true as a Democrat I feel if I criticized Bush for it, I better be prepared to criticize President Obama for similar policies he enacted or enacts.
Otherwise its hypocritical.
I know I am biased but I tend to see more Democrats who are willing to be even handed, than Republicans. For instance when I said to a Republican, "why if you are so concerned about the national debt now, weren't you concerned when Bush was racking it up?" Their response "Quit living in the past,Obama, is President now and the debt is his." Like the debt Bush ran up just magically disappeared when he left the White House?
Also while some Republican critcism may be based just on the fact that Obama is a moderate Democrat and not a radically conservative Republican, I also think part of it is due to racisim. I'm sorry a lot of the Republicans I've known have been racist, not all but a good number of them. Plus there are a number of Republicans who still try to claim he is a Muslim not born in the United States.
I am not saying that no one can disagree with his policies, I do that myself sometimes. I just don't like when the PUKES make up crap about him personally and spread rumors that he's trying to enact some bizzarre evil policy that is totally pulled out of the Puke's arse.