So many are yelling, "Sedition!"

[Nuclear Unicorn]

But the President is steadily, patiently carrying on the job of governing. Does that make him naïve? Are the people calling for -- whatever it is they're calling for -- naïve? Is he complicit? Are they just engaged in melodramatic hyperbole?

[daleanime]

1. I suppose the idea....

that they are honestly expressing their feelings is out of the question?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. So, it's just feelings; nothing substantive?

If it were actual sedition the President, as president, would be obligated to confront it.

[darkangel218]

3. POTUS hopes we can still solve the crisis in an honorable manner.

By book, it is sedition, and thus illegal what GOP is doing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. "POTUS hopes we can still solve the crisis in an honorable manner."

That's quite the assumption.

[tritsofme]

7. By "book" it most certainly is not. As has been discussed here ad nauseam.

As to the OP, I hope it is just hyperbole, and not breathtaking ignorance.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

5. Let them yell it.

Sometimes it's up to the public to say the things the President cannot.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. "Sometimes it's up to the public to say the things the President cannot."

If President Obama is unmoved by the things others are saying doesn't that make the charge suspect?

[gopiscrap]

8. He should declare martial law and arrest the entire

tea party

[NuclearDem]

9. I missed the sarcasm tag.

...right?

[gopiscrap]

10. yes I was being sarcastic

[NuclearDem]

11. Whew.

Given some of the rhetoric recently...

[gopiscrap]

12. No but what I was thinking was that would be the mind set

if this was reversed and the fucking republicans had to deal with this shit.

[StrayKat]

13. The Pres just has his sights set on bigger issues.

I think the far right is crying for sedition because they have no other cards to play. It's silly, and Pres Obama is right to ignore it.

I find the cries of sedition from the left more disturbing. They're an equally smug and unhelpful display of bigotry that show an intolerance that the left is supposed to be combating. They alienate Southerners, those with relatives or ties there, those who may be moderate or 'lite' democrats, etc. Fighting fire with fire is one thing, but what's the point of fighting stupid with stupid?