That is to say, if America today were truly like any of the totalitarian regimes that they keep equating Obama’s and his Administration to, they’d be killed for their dissent, or put in prison.

Fucking retards don’t even understand that much.

Anyway, there is arguably actually a small point to the protest deep down underneath all the racism and “hate me some liebruls” attitude, but they wouldn’t know where to find it.

Well, I could see a very non-military minded President (Carter springs to mind) appointing a former military person to a position like that, in a ‘I’ll tell you my goals, you translate them so the folks in the puzzle palace understand them clearly’ kind of way.

While I'm not going to defend the Presidency of Jimmy Carter, I would like to point out here that he did, in fact, serve several years of active duty in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy. So I don't think he really fits your description here.

But what we had seemed more of a ‘I am lazy’ and ‘I need plausible deniability’ combo platter with a side of ‘scapegoat if needed’.

Remember Bush’s so-called War Czar (Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan)? Where was the outrage then? He basically handed over a part of his commander-in-chief duties to a non-congressionally approved random dude. I’m not against the idea that the president can appoint people as advisors without congressional approval, but somebody with the power to direct the pentagon? That was a bit overboard. So where was the outrage then?!?!

And leave it to George W Bush to have an Abstinence Czar!

If only they’d been preaching abstinence when Bush Sr. and Barbara were younger…

You are correct. I thought Reagan was the first to have a drug czar, but apparently Richard Nixon was the first. Other czars date back at least as far as FDR. And leave it to George W Bush to have an Abstinence Czar!

I think the word Czar predates Reagan just a wee bit. Unless you’re talking about the media borrowing the word?

I also find it amusing how many of those people complain about “czars”… and don’t know that the term first came to be used during Reagan’s administration with the “Drug Czar.” Heh.

When libs did the anti-war protests, it wasn’t just a random “anti-Bush” rally. It had a point. They were protesting a war. They were protesting needless death. They were protesting violence.

These fuckers are protesting the fact that a black man with a foreign sounding name is the president. Actual arguments against health care (ZOMG DEATH PANELS ABORTIONS GAYS doesn’t count) were completely non-existent.

Congrats to them for passing kindergarten!

I wouldn’t leap even to that assumption.