GOP Rhetoric: Obama Was a Wimp and Newbie During 2008 Campaign, Now a Bully and Meanie in 2012 Campaign

GOP RHETORIC: President Obama made a remarkable transformation, that?s in the eyes of the Republican Party, who portrayed him as a weakling and a neophyte who palled around with terrorists during the 2008 election campaign and now he?s being portrayed as a bully, who is running the most divisive presidential campaign in American history. Um, which is it? The Republicans can?t have it both ways.?Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote an interested op-ed in the New York Times, celebrating the political toughness of President Obama, while showing how hypocritical the likes of John McCain, Ann Coulter and other conservatives are and highlighting the ridiculousness of Obamaphobia:

For those of us who remember the attacks on Obama in 2008, this is a notable shift. Four years ago the book on Obama was not that he would fight dirty but that he would not fight at all. Before Obama became the Great Deceiver of Men, he was a pinot-noir-sipping weakling who?was a horrible bowler,?marveled at arugula?and otherwise failed at manhood. The gospel among Republicans, and even many Democrats, held that Obama was yet another espouser of effete liberalism, a tradition allegedly pioneered by Adlai Stevenson, elevated by Jimmy Carter, apotheosized by Michael Dukakis, and admirably upheld by a windsurfing John Kerry.

?There is in Obama something of the Democratic candidate for president in the 1950s, Adlai Stevenson,??wrote Dick Morris in 2008. Lest you miss what that ?something? was, Morris?s column was titled ?Obama?s Weakness Is Weakness.? National Review asserted that??Real Men Vote for McCain??and claimed that Obama ?projects weakness? of the sort that was??an enticement to bad guys around the world.??In 2008?McCain asserted: ?Senator Obama says that I?m running for Bush?s third term. It seems to me he?s running for Jimmy Carter?s second.? Early in Obama?s presidency,?Coulter described Obama?s approach?to Iran as ?weak-kneed? and denounced him as a ?scaredy-cat.? Surely such a man would see your all-American daughter sold to Ayman al-Zawahri and the Constitution replaced by Shariah law.

But a funny thing happened on the way to 2012. As it turns out, the ingesting of arugula in no way interferes with one?s ability to have Osama bin Laden shot. Mitt Romney may attack Obama for ?apologizing for America? overseas. But the audience for that charge is thin. In polls, Obama consistently beats Romney on national security. A?recent Ipsos/Reuters poll?found Obama leading Romney on the issue 47 to 38 percent and the campaign against terrorism 50 to 35 percent. Source

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