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Originally Posted by blue02hd

Who are you to dictate what is "wild " or inappropriate to post here?

I didn't dictate anything. It was my opinion that some of the comments showed a lack of understanding of how the White House works, and called them 'wild' because of that.

This same type of thing happened when former President Bush was in office. At a certain point (post 04-05' time frame) almost any negative thing that happened in the White House or with policy was blamed on him being "an idiot." The same monkey photo styles that some of the right is using for Obama now were being used to caricature then President Bush by some from the left, no matter how far removed he was from the event.

I quickly grew tired of everyone to the left of moderate slinging usually baseless mud. It seems like the same thing is starting here. Though I cannot prove it, I highly doubt that the current President changed the dress code for entrance, rewrote the SOP on military burials, and personally oversaw who was allowed to enter the Whitehouse via exception.

Originally Posted by Pete

So your first homework assignment here is to find a link to a story that backs up your position as stated above - any story where a visitor or guest was treated poorly by the Bush family while in the White House.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6637549.stm

Granted, this was not a big deal as leading a Head of State "by past the trash" but that didn't stop them from saying, "the US media has been full of stories about how the president was being coached on etiquette and protocol to try to prevent him placing one of his hand-tooled Texan cowboy boots in his mouth."

What am I supposed to take from that? He's from Texas so he must be an idiot? It's not a logical argument but it gets made anyway. I didn't think it was right for millions to do it to President Bush, and I don't think it's right for people to do it to President Obama now.

Originally Posted by blue02hd

Your lacking in SA, and walking blindly into a mine field. .

I've been on the site for a little while now and can see the general trends. I have seen hundreds of threads where rhetorical questions are used to illustrate points. I have also seen that on threads like these, points like the one I am trying to make are rarely made. Maybe this -> was too much, but I plan on continuing to add my opinion unless the forum gods strike me down.