[BenLurkin]

It’s safe to say that no president in modern times has had his legitimacy questioned by the opposition party as much as Barack Obama.

Was Mr. Waldman asleep from 2000 to 2008?

[mkmensinger]

Not to mention the 1980’s. Does anybody remember the “Dear Comandante” letter to Danial Ortega written by House Dems?

[tanknetter]

Was Mr. Waldman asleep from 2000 to 2008?

Forget 2000 to 2008. Waldman doesn't even remember he, himself, wrote in November 2013:

You can put the start date of this procedural radicalism at the inauguration of Barack Obama, but I'd date it back to the Florida mess in the 2000 election. In case your memory of that episode has faded, the whole election came down to a series of counts and recounts in a state in which the Republican candidate's brother was the governor and his campaign co-chair was the state's chief election official. Throughout the weeks that followed, Republicans did things like organize a small riot to intimidate election officials into not counting ballots, and the election was ultimately decided by five members of the Supreme Court who were so shamelessly partisan that they included in their decision an instruction that it could never be used as precedent in a subsequent case. And you know what price the Republicans paid for their ruthlessness? None.