So... who wrote the NYT op-ed?

[hollodero]

(09-11-2018, 08:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It kind of goes back to the beneath the office thing. I think what Obama did (criticizing his successor at a political rally) is beneath the office. Yet in this very thread we have folks stating why it is justified that he do so.

Me being among them, so I get the point.

(09-11-2018, 08:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I think when Trump tweets petty stuff it is beneath the office; yet there are people that suggest he is justified in doing so.

But Obama worries (or maybe not, I'm not up to declaring him Mr. perfect). Trump just tweet-lies. And insults and misleads and smears investigators and institutions and parrots FOX etc. etc. - thing is, does things that are way, way lower beneath the office. Of course not just on twitter.
And that's exactly what I mean by spindoctoring around it. In this case, it's creating an equivalence between those two instances, as if "acting beneath the office" were an absolute value that both Obama and Trump violated equally and hence both are equally guilty.

Or can you honestly say that what Obama did here in dishonor of the office is equal to everything Trump did up to this point in dishonor of the office?

-- Also, what some people suggest (in this case that Trump is justified in his asinine tweets) doesn't mean much. There are folks that think Trump is justified in anything. And that many people believe that doesn't mean it is or should be or that no one could say.