It's funny to see how, especially in the US, so many people still fall into the trap of believing the front man (of anything, including political parties) is the root of all evil. The president (yes, for all of your two parties...) is the fruit of the tree, not the root. How childish to try to blame everything on the media relations guy of an organization, i.e., the president. He is just a figurehead who reads the speeches that are written for him. It's so bizarre to see kids getting extremely worked up about him personally, essentially (or even literally) declaring him the antichrist.