First African American President

[RevStPatrick]

157. Without reading through every post on the thread...

...to see if someone else has said this:

I can't prove this quickly, and I don't have time to do a thorough search right now, but I think this is hyperbole. I can't believe for a moment, that back in the day, when politics was much more raucous than it is even now, that nobody heckled a president during a joint session of congress, or during a press conference. Nixon, for one of many, was hounded by the press ("You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore" and Woodstein), and you can be pretty sure that there were reporters who were rude to him. I'm sure that in a culture back when people dueled each other, that they would have heckled as well. And worse.

Chester Arthur was thought to be born in Canada to parents who were from Ireland, and was thought to be ineligible by some when he took office from Garfield. It probably wasn't as bad as what Mr. Obama has had to deal with, but this is not the first time a president has been thought to be ineligible for office.

So yes, that douchenozzle was certainly disrespectful of the president the other day. But he wasn't the first, and won't be the last douchenozzle to act like a douchenozzle. It doesn't help to be hyperbolic, and I think you were making stuff up.