Just remember that Obama started all of this controversy by being black.

Don't forget how controversial many of the inherited problems, such as the deficit, became after 20 January 2009.

Perhaps the RepuGs are miffed they were not able to throw darts at Obama hanging from the steeple at St Mere Eglise ala Red Buttons in "The Longest Day".

or was it by actually writing a memoir and an "agenda if I'm President" book rather than having them ghost written?

This is great, Steve, but having hyperlinks to the other presidents doing these things would be helpful in dispelling the B.S.

I suspect most people just shake their heads at the perpetual hysteria machine that is the American right. Hyperventilating blowhards attract a lot of attention, and fortunately much of it sticks to them like fecal matter in a monkeyhouse.

Tribalism is very effective at keeping the base jazzed. It's less effective at winning converts since not that many sane people would like to hang with drooling idiots.

Well, if Republicans win the House in November, we can expect to see a list of Obama's misdeeds in a Bill of Impeachment.

Unfortunately, even if you limit the tally to the top five or ten examples each day the list will be too long to post.

Don't paint this as 'all Conservative'...we have PLENTY in our own party that play the game. In fact that is the problem. I was watching TODAY this morning when Lauer asked Obama if he had met with CEO Tony Heyward. Obama replied 'no, he will tell me what he thinks I want to hear'...Lauer replied 'I don't feel COMFORTABLE with that position.' JHC! If Obama HAD met with BP the NEXT headline would have been 'SEE? He's in bed with the oil execs!!!' and Charlie Rangel would've been tweeting...

It's all part of the GOP ongoing project to deny the legitimacy of Obama's election. They did the same thing to Clinton, I recall. "This man does not live up to our standard of being a real American, and so he cannot be a real President."

It's not just the "conservative media." Did anyone read the AP story about Obama this weekend? It could have been dictated by the GOP.

Oh you forgot the "Fancy Pants" Comment by Faux complaining that he showed up at the gulf wearing dress pants. He should be more like Bush rollin' up them sleeves fer brush clearin' photo ops . Now thars a real man.

I'm talking about this:

Obama not above political manipulation after all

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer - Sat Jun 5, 9:51 am ET

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama, being from Chicago, knows there are two basic ways to play foul in politics.

One is to break the law.

The other is to keep it legal, if shadily close to the line. It may not stink to high heaven, but it smells a little.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100605/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_backdoor_politics_1

AP now is part of the conservative media

You have to admire their brass balls - I'd have thought the right would be afraid to link "Bush" and "D Day" in the same sentence (figuratively speaking; they must have known that'd be the first comparison drawn). That might cause a few people to remember Bush the Clown having his moving D-Day lines read to him through his substitute-for-thinking earpiece.

But as usual, the right just slams ahead, content in the knowledge that the attention-deficit voters will remember Bush without anger or shame.

Did anyone read the AP story about Obama this weekend? It could have been dictated by the GOP. -john R

The AP is conservative media. Google Ron Fournier for more information.

And if you Google Calvin Woodward, the AP's 'fact checker,' you'll find that opinion piece masquerading as journalism isn't his first biased work.

The AP hasn't been a reliable political news source for quite some time.

The AP hasn't been a reliable political news source for quite some time.

Well, there the story was, right in my daily newspaper, masquerading as news. It's worse than Fox News. At least with Fox, you know they're biased. But how many people across America read that crap by Woodward without knowing the history?

D-day is june 6

That photo of Obama putting his feet up on the Oval Office desk caused a stir. Older photos of other Presidents "humanized" them, whereas Obama was labeled "callow."

The right wing blogosphere is in a huff over this hyped slight.
Of course it is yet another in the list of made up issues, e.g. Sestak-Gate. There is nothing to it, except...

The purpose of all of this sturm und drang is purely and simply propaganda. Verifying all of these topics as bunk is easy, yet there are relatively few Benen type reporters doing so, and a whole lot of reporters and MSM pundits running with it.

It is now time to start keeping a list.

I propose the following Tea Party Right Wing anti-Obama, anti-America Sturm und Drang:

Death Panels
Sestak-Gate
D-Day 2010

Others?

If you think our President (and by default all
Democrats) POSSIBLY hates America, because you've been told as such so many times...but at the same time you KNOW, by their example, that Republicans will screw you over any chance you get unless you're a wealthy contributor, then you won't be sure who to vote for. And you'll stay home. And to Republicans, that's as good as a vote for them, because their base ALWAYS votes. They don't need you to vote for them, they just need you to not vote. They'll take care of the rest.

"One standard for Obama; one standard for everyone else."

It's broader than that:

The First Rule of the Right-Wing is: Rules are For Others.

Despite the innumerable attempts by Obama, and before him, Clinton, to appease the right-wing, no attempt will ever be adequate.

It doesn't even matter that Obama and Clinton repeatedly adopt and promote right-wing policies, politicians, and philosophies.

The right-wing operates on a simple rule: Rules are for the "left" and NO rules apply to the "right".

rinse, repeat

Fournier once emailed Rove, "Keep up the fight."
He's a complete skank.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200807220006

Obama also sometimes goes on vacation, attends a concert or theater performance, and has been caught disrespectfully putting his feet up. I'm surprised they don't make a stink about his cocktail parties the way they do about his occasional cigarette-- all of which are, of course, unprecedented. He doesn't show respect at Arlington either. Also. And am I the only one who remembers Bush going for long periods without a press conference? In fact, wasn't Dumbo's first long election campaign as devoid of press appearances as the entire career of Undivine Sarah (aka Mooselini)? Since no one else seems to have mentioned the press thing, maybe I misremember it in error, but I'm sure the other stuff is really outrageous. And don't forget-- his wife Touched Queen Elizabeth! It wasn't an actual shoulder massage, but it sure was uppity.

Tom @ 12:20 Mooselini - thanks has a nice ring, conjures up all sorts of images

Hopefully the DNC is keeping track, or at least somebody, since a running list would be good PR fodder come 2012

Actually, I was there, at Omaha Beach.

Obama has built a time machine, and he went back there and personally thanked us. He hasn't gotten to each of us yet, maybe ask a vet next year.

2 Words.

Lapel. Pin.

Two Words: Flag Pins.

Half the people bitching about Obama not wearing a flag pin - were not wearing flag pins.

Actually my favorite is still tarp.

TARP was conceived, written, voted on by both houses, passed and signed into law.

During the BUSH administration.

And yet I constantly hear Obama getting the blame for it.

Bush spent $750 BILLION dollars bailing out wall street cronies, so they could then go take Spa vacations and private jets and receive multi million dollar bonuses......And there were no teabaggers with assault rifles at his rallies.

Yet Obama spends $15 billion to bail out GM and it's ZOMG SOCIALISM.

Or of course (for the gun nuts buying up all the ammo), other Presidents ban assault rifles and Obama lets you carry guns in national parks.

I don't even like Obama. Hell I'm still stewing about his cloture vote on whether or not to give AT&T et all retroactive immunity for breaking the law. I voted against Launchpad McCain and Caribou Barbie because neither one of them deserves to be anywhere near the Oval Office except on a tour....

But you know what? I say the same thing I said about Bush. You're gonna hate on Obama? At least hate him for stuff he's actually done or failed to do. Don't just make stuff up out of your fevered minds.

Like Obama's declaration of sovereign immunity for the uS Government against lawsuits...or the fact that Gitmo is still open for business...or the fact that he STILL claims the right to pre-emptively incarcerate of criminals or that he wants to be able to incarcerate people 'certain types' of criminals indefinitely even after they've served their time for their crimes. Or despite the fact that it is BY US LAW illegal to waterboard, nobody in the Bush administration has yet been indicted for torture even after Bush admitted that he'd ordered it.

All this nonsense about flag pins and birth certificates and whether or not he can put his damn feet up on a HIS desk (You lost, get over it), or wear a tie or not is a bunch of bull hockey and it only serves to mask the stuff he's doing that is ACTUALLY dangerous.

Wake the hell up America.

you forgot about when Obama puts his shoes on the Oval Office desk.

These people don't realize that the reason they think Obama's not legitimate, isn't because of the birth certificate or lack thereof. It's because he isn't the right color.

I like your lists like this.

The shoes on the desk have been mentioned twice, but it is worth adding to the list.

I admit I originally glomed onto the criticism of Obama not saying a word about D-Day, that was before I got the facts. I am right of center politically, but I have become more of a thinking conservative.

I did give President Obama a pass on Memorial Day, although I do think he should have been at Arlington National Cemetary. I will say that Obama should probably have said something in honor of D-Day, but I don't want him impeached for not saying something about it.

I am the type of conservative who will give credit when and were it is due. I also will give blame where due.

Brent, it's important to keep in mind that Arlington isn't the only military cemetery in the country. And that getting into Arlington is a bit like getting into Harvard.

Plenty of our fallen are interred elsewhere, and I think it's fitting for the President to pay his respects in those places where the lesser-known or less-celebrated are buried.

Hameletta: I'm aware Arlington isn't the only national cemetary, in fact my grandfather is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetary in Minneapolis.

I would have prefered Obama be there to lay the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldiers, on memorial day, but I still respect him going to a national cemetary.

While I disagree with a majority of the posters on this site, I am not your ordinary conservative. I respect the President no matter their party and NEVER wish physical harm on them, just electoral defeat when I disagree with them.

If I ever got the chance to sit down and have a barley pop with Obama I would, and I might try to have a reasoned discussion with the man. I'd know it is very unlikely I'd change his mind and it is unlikely I'd change his but reasonable people can disagree, isn't that part of what makes America great?

Brent, I appreciate your coming to post here and speaking like an adult -- that's refreshing.
And I'm happy to accept your assertion that you're a "thinking conservative."
So I must ask you to forgive me -- I'm trying as hard as I can not to descend into snark here -- for asking you two questions, if you're willing to answer them.
First, what parts of the historic conservative world-view does a thinking conservative still hold to?
Conservatives historically stand for "small government" w/r/t business and the economy -- low taxes, little to no regulation, trust in markets and market players to self-regulate -- and "big government" w/r/t defense, intelligence, and internal security (eg, a preference for military action over diplomacy, wars of aggression, massive spying that includes American citizens, abusive interrogations) and the regulation of individuals' personal behaviors -- regulating, heavily restricting, and/or forbidding abortion rights and same-sex marriage.
After (depending on how you define "control" and "majority") six to sixteen years of Republican control of the majority of government, in which all of the major conservative ideas have been implemented, and the results have been undeniably catastrophic for almost everyone (including the very wealthiest and most powerful of citizens), which parts of the conservative belief system do you still hold to?
And with the Publicans de facto admitting that they have no useful ideas or policy proposals (admission entailed in the facts that they have nothing to say in Congress but "no" to whatever the Dem's propose, even -- make that especially -- when what the Dem's propose is what the Publicans always said they wanted; plus the fact that almost everything they have to say about policy is based on lies about the policies, and/or hypocritical ad hominem attacks on Dem's and liberals), how can you still support them at all? Or do you? Am I making a bad assumption that you do, and you're actually expecting to sit out elections or vote for Libertarians or some such?
Tia if you care to answer -- and since my snark-reduction techniques seem to have come a cropper, I won't complain if you don't.
cheers