The world has changed. There was a time when people could put partisanship asside and recognize that the president as their leader deserving of respect, even if they disagreed with his politics.
Sadly, that time has passed. Politics and leadership can no longer be separated. Partisanship can never by any longer put asside. IMHO it started with the way the left incessastly attacked president Bush. What they have wrought cannot be undone, and this is the result.
Aren’t you the one always defending Obama?? Have you changed your mind?
It goes back a lot longer than that. I think that when Robert Bork got the reception he got from the Democrats then that really started it and it grew from there. Reagan begot Clinton which begot Bush which begot Obama. Now each side is using anything as an excuse to retaliate against the other.