Obama's Birth Certificate Released

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Are presidential candidates supposed to be stellar college students? As with everyone else, I go based on their performance post-college especially if they went to graduate school. Imagine a world where we had access to everyone's college transcipts and their positions were critiqued based on that.

That's such a dumb issue and it was also dumb when people were calling Bush dumb. I kept telling the Bush haters to give it a rest with that stupid stuff. So, now I just have to say "payback's a bitch." Focusing on the less important things was good enough when people were bashing Bush but now they expect people to get over the unimportant things when it comes to Obama.

I do believe that the emphasis on the birth certificate and college performance are rooted in more than politics. It is also generally rooted in race and nationalism and people didn't wait for some type of perceived failure before the criticisms arose.

But, regardless of how frivolous it is, you can't pick and choose when frivolity is okay.

This couldn't be brought up enough. I believe the vitriol and general nastiness that we saw during the GWB's administration just carried over to Obama's. I don't know if it's "payback" from Republicans for the 8 years of crap they had to deal with or maybe our society crossed a line and there's no going back to politely disagreeing on things. One "newer" aspect that upset me were the attacks and ridicule of Sarah Palin's youngest child Trig. Words can't describe how disgusting that was. I don't exactly remember pundits and the media going after Chelsea Clinton or the Bush twins at all, let alone as nasty as that.

I voted against GWB in 2000 and 2008, I didn't care for him AT ALL, but I find myself defending the man more and more as time goes on. There was a lot of stupid and unnecessary things said about the man. Hell, I even saw a fellow student burn an effigy of GWB on campus in '03 or '04*. I see what's happening to Obama, all of the unnecessary bullshit that his detractors are putting him through and there are a lot of similarities. Maybe he should call W and ask for some advice on how to handle it

As for the racism... It's getting old on both sides. I do believe that there are mouth breathers out there who are against Obama solely on the fact that he's black and I feel sorry for them. They need to get over their issues or just go away so the rest of us don't have to deal with them. There are a lot of political reasons not to like Obama, to make race the #1 reason you hate the man is stupid and sad.

People who say "well they don't like Obama's policy/program/whatever because they're RACIST" need to get a life too. To insinuate that all of his policies are perfect for everybody is just ridiculous. The man is not infallible. Just because someone doesn't agree with the President doesn't make them racist. I just find it funny that the people I know who were vocal critics of Bush are so sensitive now when it comes to criticism now that the shoe is on the other foot. Any party affiliated politician on a national level is going to enter Washington with half of the country not liking him. That's just the way it works.