The Slow Motion Lynching of President Barack Obama - By Frank Schaeffer

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38. The Presidency's power

had a lot of respectful things to it, to the office, but once we chose a black man, that was gone, and he is held to every limit they can find and possibly more. The racists want to punish the country for invalidating their opinion that no black man could ever get the top job. We were the ones who gave it to him, so we have to suffer.

The filibuster was used rarely. Not it's used for every single bill. Every single judicial nomination is filibustered, to the point where the Senate finally got rid of that rule for ordinary jobs. Ordinary jobs could not be filled due to the filibuster. No other president was limited by that.

No other president has his birth or legitimacy questioned for so long and even in the face of so much proof that he was born in the US.

No President was yelled at "you lie" during the SOTU address. No one would do that to a President. But this time some white Congressman thought that was OK to do on the floor of Congress during the SOTU.

The hysteria over every little thing he ever does and the propensity to find something wrong with it rather than just see it as ordinary, is so obvious.