Is Obama a President or King?

[DeistPaladin]

I think you are a racist for blaming all those national problems on the color of Barack Obama's skin.

...or, they just don't like barack's policies.

They hated Clinton's policies too but never came close to this level of disrespect for the Office of the President. You can protest Obama all you like. You can say he's a liar or whatever. But there's a certain respect that the Office of the President is expected. The GOP demanded it for Bush, in fact way too much.

There's simply no excuse for their behavior. Joe Wilson should have been forced to resign in disgrace and then striped naked in the public square, tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail. He interpreted a State of the Union with his heckling and he's supposed to be a representative. How dare he?

If any Democrat had cried "you lie" during one of Bush's States of the Union, eardrums across the country would split open with the 90 decibel shrieks of indignation from the right wing. The GOP would have demanded nothing less than an apology from every Congressional Democrat on the behavior of one of their colleagues and the resignation of the offender. No matter that W. Bush lied his ass off to get us to go to war in Iraq.

And even you have said the birthers are nuts. No president before now has ever been forced to respond to such crackpottery. Did Bush ever have to offer proof that 9/11 was not an inside job or respond to the truthers in any way? No. The truthers never got traction outside of Alec Jones' following and a few internet bloggers, and rightly so. Why did the birthers gain such a following in the GOP?

And basic patriotism alone should have compelled the GOP Congress to do more, no matter their dislike for the president. They've completely gummed up the works in Washington since 2010 at a time when we're at war in two places and trying to recover from the greatest economic meltdown since 1929. And then they shut down the government and nearly destroyed the economy in 2013. What possible policy could Obama have had to warrant such psychosis?

So bullshit. The GOP is racist and has gone crazy partly because a black man has invaded their White House. There. I said it.