Protests -- Bush and Obama

The change Obama supporters wanted is here (I'd say in spades, but that would be taken as a racial slur which it isn't, so I'll say instead, on steroids).

This article from RedState shows just how much change there's been in how protests and protesters were handled.

The Bush White House:

Faced with protesters camped outside Bush’s residence in Crawford, White House officials chose to meet with Cindy Sheehan and others:

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer didn’t question the legitimacy of anti-war protesters:

White House Press Secretary Trent Duffy echoed these sentiments:

While Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was demonized by the Left, he blocked security from removing a protester at one of his appearances:

White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said protesters were ‘well-intentioned:

How does that compare with the Obama White House?

The Democratic National Committee addresses health care protests:

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs won’t give protesters any legitimacy

And that isn't the worst of it, the White House website is asking us to snitch on personal conversations and emails of friends and neighbors:

Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

To add insult to injury, they've used as a title of that post part of a quote from John Adams, to wit, Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.

Adams in his wildest dreams couldn't have predicted that his quote would be used to by those who wish to take away the freedom he and the other founding fathers fought so hard to give us.