How did the Democratic Party let this President become so vilified?

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177. Okay, but since when has "standing up and fighting" meaned screaming and crapping all over the

people that come the closest to representing and getting you to your end game?

The Repubs have done a very good job of portraying the president as an out of control, America hating socialist that wants to raise everyone's taxes and let the UN invade our borders. The vast majority of Democrats/liberals have refuted that but there has been an (statistically extremely tiny) portion of the extreme left that has for reasons that no one fully understands, have tried to portray the president as a conservative fascist out to kill the poor.

It is my personal opinion that the opinion of both of these groups are two sides of the same coin of crazy. And what's actually wound up happening is that the media, desperate to play up any and all disruption within the ranks -- on both the left AND right -- sees these attacks and has been amplifying them. All of this does nothing but weaken President Obama and the Democratic party. And who winds up suffering as a result? The American people for generations to come.

I have seen really intelligent, principled objection to the president's policies from Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken and lots of other Democrats. Hell, even Pelosi and Reid have been able to disagree with him without calling him "Reagan lite". The CBC has been exemplary in the way that they've handled disagreements (and there have been quite a few) with the president. There has to be a smarter, less destructive way to disagree with the party rather than screaming profanities, calling the Democrats sell outs and members of the Catfood Commission before they've even done anything. Howling at every thing that moves doesn't do a thing but make the people doing so look unhinged. And what smart person in their right mind would want to represent the unhinged in Congress?