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

[kentuck]

207. First of all...

I could be very critical of this President, if I chose to be?

I would suggest that anyone that has supported this President on every issue is not a "real" Democrat. And if they did not support the President, but chose to keep their mouths shut, then that raises another issue entirely.

I think that it is easy to confuse "criticism" with "vilification". Republicans vilify him. And we all know the numerous ways they have done that - from birth certificate, to being a Muslim, they have run the gamut. But that is different from saying that you disagree with the President on the TPP trade treaty, or with droning the people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. That is different from saying you disagreed with the President on keeping 96% of the Bush taxcuts in place, when the government desperately needed revenues, but stood on the ground that the economy was not strong enough to take such a "tax increase". And that is different from criticizing the President for putting in Wall Street-types like Tim Geithner, when this country was in dire need of reform and cleaning house with the big money banks and corporations that were calling the shots as our economy almost collapsed. Yes, but he kept us out of a depression, didn't he?

There are arguments to counter criticism and there are arguments to counter "vilification". They are not the same. Some DUers need to stop making that comparison and bad-mouthing other DUers in the process, in my opinion.