I wish I had your confidence. Do you have anything online I can go read to support that this has gone on (at this level, I don't mean that no one ever played politics during a time of war)? I would like to think that you're right and it's not a big deal. But it feels like a real big deal. Especially after growing up a military brat during the Vietnam war and watching what role the media and politics played in that loss.
susie
I'll look for something credible and send it to you if I can find any. I just know from reading and studying history that this kind of stuff is part of American culture. During the Revolution a large segment, possibly even a majority, of colonists were loyal to England. In the Civil War Lincoln was maligned in cartoons and editorials. His approval rating was probably in the 20s or 30s in the part of the nation that didn't seceed. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Truman also took huge amounts of criticism and were hated by large sections of the population.