Further Obama-bashing has already begun and it needs to stop

The election is 3 days over and already the "Obama-bashing", in order to position for the 2012 election has begun.

From the news today, Mike Huckabee started saying on Fox "News" that the President's trip to India this week was going to cost $200 million per day.  Naturally, Michelle Bachmann repeated it, without either of them doing any research first, so the Drudge report and Glenn Beck spouted it, too.  (Not that Glenn Beck ever did any pesky "research", right?)

Truth be told, the claim came, from all places, from "an anonymous Indian government official."  


As it turns out, the story is absolutely false, no surprise.  At one point in the rumor, it was said that "the U.S. was stationing 34 warships—roughly 10 percent of the naval fleet--off the coast of Mumbai for security reasons."


Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell called the warship claim "absolutely absurd." "That's just comical," he said at Thursday's Pentagon news briefing.  "Nothing close to that is being done."


Additional verification of its silliness:  The nonpartisan FactCheck.org took up the issue, too, saying that even though the administration won't release a price tag, there is "simply no evidence to support" a claim of $200 million a day. One reason to doubt the report, according to the group:  The entire war in Afghanistan costs $190 million a day.


This brings up two points for me.  


The first is that the lies against this President should stop, along with the absurdity, ridiculousness and outlandishness of them.


But they won't stop.  Far from it.  If anything, because of the now-current 2012 election campaign that we'll all be exposed to ad nauseam/ad infinitum from here until that fateful November day, these kinds of things will only flourish.   Instead of all these people working for the betterment and improvement of the country, they will only continue to come up with this kind of nonsense--accusations, lies, attributions, etc.


Employment numbers came out today and they were positive.  Do you think the Republicans are going to celebrate that?  Heck no.  They're not going to be happy, clearly, if the country does well---and this President is re-elected.  Mitch McConnell made it clear when he said "The single-most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."


The second thing this all brings up for me now, today, and for the next 2 years ties in with this and that is that everyone--everyone--in this country--Republicans, Tea Party members, Libertarians, Democrats, Independents, all--should be working together as Americans, first, last and always, to make this country and all our conditions better.


Sadly, nearly unbelievably, this isn't going to happen. 


Between now and November 2012, Republicans are going to do everything they can--and it better not include impeachment proceedings but they may try that again--to see to it that our economy and our legislative process, both, go against the President so they'll "win" and he'll fail.


And to do that goes against this country in a lot of ways.


It seems very nearly treasonous.


Link to original post:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101105/el_yblog_upshot/citing-shady-numbers-republicans-take-aim-at-the-cost-of-obamas-trip-to-india/print
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/25/mcconnell-obama-one-term/