Bryon,
from 43's first day in office when a lot of Americans claimed the evil republicans stole the election (notice that every time the reps win; some cheating going on and when dems win, this is democracy at its finest) to the blame Bush got when the U.S. ran out of flu vaccine, to the criticism Obama gave Bush during his speech at the inauguration.
It comes with the job. From day one to the last day in office fairly or unfairly people will criticize you. Remember 46% of Americans voted against Obama. It would be much worse if McShame no McBush no McHitler no McCain had won. I know a guy that was going to move to a far away country(Australia) if McCain had won. What was his name......?
I have another criticism of Pres. Obama. On day one, hour one, the person Obama chose to give the benediction, Joseph Lowery, insulted all white Americans and Obama laughed.
Lowery said..."We ask you to help us work for that day, black won't be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead man, and when white will embrace what is right." This is how the new unifying party starts out. It's not like Obama didn't know Lowery was an outspoken guy. Lowery spoke at Correta S. Kings funeral and used that platform to rip Bush to pieces with Bush sitting a few feet from him. Classy guy.
Obama is drawn to guys like him...Jeremiah Wright. The first sermon he heard from Wright was "White folks greed runs a world in need" Page 100 in Obama's autobiography Dreams of my Father. After hearing this sermon he joined the church....for 20 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmeB4WMSZKYDon't look to the NBC's, CBS's MSNLSD's to report negatively on democrats and Obama. You will be wasting your time.
This is from Fox news since you listed them as a legitimate news source; his words match his mouth on this small clip. This is a real conversation by Reich and Rangel to a committee. Rangel is the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. This is not a group of guys at the local bar blowing off steam.
This is the "Change We Need"
This is the "Change you can believe in"
This is "Hope"
This is "The moment the world has been waiting for"
This is the "Yes we can"
This is emboldened liberal idealism made possible by the election of the most liberal senator in the senate.
To be fair, I'll end this by criticizing Bush and republicans.
This meeting with Rangel, Reich and committee is a way to employ groups of people that have been left out of the system; could not get these jobs in the past.
I say that anybody that wanted to work in construction in the US from 2000-2007 could have.
We were hurting for workers SO badly that Bush and the reps turned their heads so that millions of illegal workers flooded our nation to fill the jobs that "Americans don't want to do"
...Ah yes his name was Bryon Lewis :)