Man, you guys are really desperate for reasons to hate him. He's not even president yet. We also have no idea how many briefings previous presidents attended, nor do i really care.
Tone down the hysteria and save it for when he does really bad stuff, otherwise everyone will ignore you when he does stupid shit: and i have no doubt that he will
I've actually tried to think about that very point objectively.
And I think if you review perceptions from the days of "Apprentice" through "Birther" and then his outrageous behavior through the campaign, the "hate" is like pizza dough at room temperature after a day's duration.
It has risen from too many reasons over a longer period of time.
When Obama was elected, a letter-to-the-editor of the local paper insisted that a one-day blip dropping the stock-market was Obama's fault. Boehner insisted two months into the presidency that the Prez was deficit for providing jobs -- "Where are the jobs, Mr. President?" A homeless man who'd lost his $100,000/year info-tech job told me the story of his father, who insisted that he himself had lost his job in July, 2008 because of . . . . who? Obama, that's who.
Perhaps you are right about the citizens who cry "Wolf." On the other hand, I mentioned today in another thread the play "Biedermann and the Arsonists" by Max Frisch, 1953. Maybe you can find that if you're interested, but the theme is one about waiting too long as a clueless bystander.
I only made predictions about the Bush presidency between November 2000 and September 10, 2001. I simply accepted it as a situation that we could endure. So you'd think that now I'm even older than I was, that I would simply continue to endure.
I'm surprised at my own sense of alarm.
Who knows? Maybe in three years, I'll be writing this from a camp somewhere in Utah, hanging on the barbed wire and shouting "Avenge me! Avenge me!"
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