They claimed that Obama wasn't really born in America. They made a big deal out of the fact that he doesn't bowl well and eats argula. They constantly point out that he uses a teleprompter. They think that he will destroy the country by shaking hands with Hugo Chavez and hugging the King of Saudi Arabia. They attacked the gifts he gives other foreign leaders. They think he might build reeducation camps to indoctrinate young people. They have called him an athiest, a Muslim, a socialist, a Communist, an Arab, a "Halfrican-American", a drug dealer, a potential terrorist, a "little black man-child", and a traitor to America. But now the far-right conservatives have gone completely, utterly, insane. Free Republic: Obama, Biden Dine at Ray's Hell Burger; Obama: "You Got...Uh...Dijon Mustard? (Video) Fox News Attacks Obama for asking for Dijon mustard on his burger Laura Ingraham: "What kind of man orders a cheeseburger without ketchup, but Dijon mustard?" Limbaugh fill-in Mark Steyn on Obama using Dijon And from the person who is a shoo-in for the, "Craziest law professor to hold a job at a respectable university" award Dijon-gate! Apparently, Obama not only ordered Dijon mustard this time, but has eaten Dijon on several previous occasions!!! "And here is the video proof. The One loves his Grey Poupon... He ordered a cheddar cheese burger with Dijon Mustard on his first flight on Air Force One, and the mainstream media didn't cover it.... In the summer of 1997...and when the waitress brought his food, he asked for Dijon mustard to go with it." Despite proving each instance by linking to major media reports of the use of Dijon, the professor somehow claims that there's a conspiracy because not all media outlets report on Obama's use of Dijon every time! This exact sort of insanity was actually predicted in Obama's book 'The Audacity of Hope: "He told the story of his first tour through Illinois, when he ordered Dijon on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday's. His panicked political aide assured the waitress that Obama didn't want Dijon at all and waved her away, thrusting a bottle of French's at him instead. The waitress, perplexed, assured Obama that she had Dijon if he wanted it. 'As the waitress walked away, I leaned over and whispered that I didn't think there were any photographers around,' Obama wrote. The anecdote underscored Obama's thoughts on what he viewed as the absurdity of focusing on non-issues in politics. 'What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial,' he wrote."
Even then, I don't think he could have imagined the degree to which the pettiness would reach.
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