A Canadian's view of our disrespect of our own President. Interesting.

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57. Myopia

Much of the criticism from the right of the president is unwarranted, bizarre, or both. Anybody who denies it is being paid to deny it or is too stupid to recognize it anyway. That being said, Barack Obama is far from the first president to deal with outrageous personal and/or political attacks. Rachel Jackson died of mortification after the campaign of 1828. Father Charles Coughlin referred to FDR as Franklin Delano Rosenfelt and the Jew Deal on his national radio show. H.L. Hunt funded the publication of cheap pamphlets, much like Chick tracts, that accused JFK of being gay. Hell, anybody remember W's people robocalling SC about McCain's supposed black baby?

The personal attacks are as ugly as they've ever been in our history. Are they worse? I doubt it. It wasn't so long ago that a lot of people had bumper stickers referring to a missing village idiot from Texas. I remember the bullshit theories that had Hilary sneaking out of the White House to kill Vince Foster, or Bill ordering the FBI/CIA/DEA/NSA/WHOEVER to do it. Hell, there was a whole death list theory regarding Clinton and videos funded by Richard Mellon Scaife that gave him a body count of over 100 people.

Much of what's said is outrageous and simply not fit for a decent society. That being said, the author of that whine isn't excused for claiming that it's somehow different this time. It's really not. Harry Truman was right a long time ago when he said, "the only thing that ever changes is the history you don't know."