Perhaps the emotions that drive the Right to oppose Obama's socialist agenda are a counterreaction to the phenomenal and unrelenting level of emotion-driven adoration of him by the Left.
I am curious, though. You say Obama is being held "to standards that no other President or candidate has been". Name one.
Well, very few people have demanded to see birth certificates from other Prez candidates, and for most purposes a short form is accepted. But what I had in mind was the “born of two U.S. citizen parents on U.S. soil” definition of “natural born citizen” which 99% of birthers had not even thought about before Obama came on the scene.