rstrong wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:51 pm
It's hardly a surprise.
It started with the flag pin outrage in 2008. Obama didn't wear a flag pin one day, and the Republicans declared him to be anti-American. And yet there plenty of campaign pictures and videos of Republican candidates without flag pins floating around.
Or was it presidential eligibility? Obama met both popular definitions of "natural born citizen" - "born on US soil" and "a US citizen at the moment of birth." McCain met NEITHER definition. But we know which one they screamed about for eight years. They called Obama a "Kenyan" because his father was born in Kenya, but none ever called Mitt Romney - whose father was born in Mexico - a Mexican.
What we now know as ObamaCare and the personal mandate were mainstream Republican policy until Obama adopted them.
Republicans had a hissy fit over Obama bowing to a foreign leader - even though it was standard practice for Republican Presidents.
They faulted Obama for continuing Bush II policy in Iraq and Afghanistan - the same policies they were calling people traitors for criticizing a few months earlier. then they faulted him for pulling out of Iraq - even though the pull-out was done on a timeline agreement signed by Bush II.
They have a hissy fit when Obama decides to hold terrorist trials in America, ignoring the previous terrorist trials - in America - for the USS Cole bombers, African embassy bombers, one of the 9/11 terrorists, etc., etc. under the previous Republican watch.
They screamed when Obama tried to hold terrorist trials in America, ignoring the previous terrorist trials - in America - for the USS Cole bombers, African embassy bombers, one of the 9/11 terrorists, etc., etc. under the previous Republican watch.
For a while they faulted Obama for a huge cut in military spending, until people started asking, "On what planet is a 4% spending increase a huge cut?"
They faulted Obama for cutting F-22 production, even after people patiently explained to them in small words that it was the Bush II administration that .... didn't cut production, but refused to order more ... and that Obama kept this policy.
They declared that Obama wasn't protecting the U.S. against terrorist attacks - despite his track record being better than both previous Republican and Democratic administrations. Including a dozen Benghazi-like attacks under Bush II.
Every President (except Kennedy) in the last 70 years has had "czars". Franklin Roosevelt had 19 of them. Bush II had 33. Suddenly they were wrong under Obama.
Republicans had a hissy fit over Obama using a Canadian bus. Prevost bus shells are Canadian made, then outfitted by Hemphill Coach of Tennessee. Bush II used one in his last election campaign. In 2008 the same buses were used by John McCain, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin. And by Republican candidates like Michele Bachmann in 2012. But Democrats? Not allowed.
Republicans in Congress declared Obama's military action in Libya to be unconstitutional, because it was done without Congress's authorization. President Bush I did the same, ordered troops into Panama in 1989 to overthrow General Manuel Noriega. As with Obama, President Bush consulted with Congressional leaders but did not seek or receive Congress' authorization. The legal issues were settled by the Office of Legal Counsel when the same thing was done with troops sent into Haiti and Bosnia in the 1990s.
The First Lady having a staff. Expected for Republicans, an abomination for Democrats.
Executive Orders were proof that Obama was a dictator. But you had to ignore the fact that he issued less of them than any President in the last century. But they're back to being peachy-keen in the new Republican White House.
Obama's handling of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine has been a mirror image of Bush II's handling of the Russian invasion of Georgia. But you wouldn't know it from Republicans.
It's an endless list.