Obama, Withstanding the Usual Presidential Onslaught

EVER SINCE OBAMACARE FELL FLAT on its face coming out of the starting gate, President Obama's popularity rating has been in the dumpster. How low will it go? Will Obama end up becoming the least popular president in American history? Or, more to the point, is Obama, at this very moment, the most hated, the most villified president in history, or if not, will he soon be? Sometimes you kind of feel sorry for the guy, sudh a pounding is he taking in the mainstream conservative American media. Until you remember; he asked for it. Anyone who tries to become president of the United States is asking for it. The republicans are heartless in their name calling. Ironic, since Obama is conspicuously more intelligent than most of his detractors. Throughout American whoever was president has taken a verbal pounding from the opposition, and in America, there is always an opposition - to everything. Only George Wastington was fortunate enough to largely escape, due to his status as a national hero, the verbal vultures, but even he drew some fire. When Thomas Jefferson ran for president in 1800, he was accused of being a fornicator and an atheist in the newspapers. The fact that he was both does not excuse the rudensss of his federalist opponents, who supported John Adams. In those days presidential candidates remained above the fray, but their supporters were brutal. Abraham Lincoln was called a monky, a baboon, by democrats who hated his anti slavery views, and also by the radical rebublican abolitionists of the free soil party, which Lincoln helped to organize. Lincoln got it from both ends of the political spectrum. Obama is neither the first nor hopefully the last to attract a barrage of verbal abuse. Jefferson and Lincoln withstood the onslaught, so will Obama, most likely.