I will never, ever fucking ever understand supporting everything a president says and does.

[Maedhros]

256. Here's the thing:

In my criticisms of the NSA, I never even speak of the President. I level my criticism at the policy and the bad acts of the Agency. If I have to discuss the Administration, I refer to "the Administration" with the knowledge that many individuals may have been involved in the decision-making behind the policy.

The people to whom Cali is referring in the OP respond to my criticisms with some variation of vitriol, empty ridicule and accusations of Obama Hatred despite the fact that I don't even mention the President in my post. These are the people to whom politics is 100% emotional and 100% focused on personalities. They project their own personal, emotional loyalty issues on me and assume that because I criticize the NSA I am ipso facto criticizing the President, because that's how they think about politics (check out any of the threads on Christie, for example - chock full of attacks on Christie the person*).

* Not that I'm defending Christie's actions.