Actually, NEDL....you are more right than wrong on the vacation thingy when you add that the (Obama) attempt was over US soil while the (Bush) attempt was over the Atlantic ocean. Doesn't make it a lesser offense, but had Reid been successful, there would not have been any collateral damage on US property.
Besides, being "on vacation" at the official US Presidential retreat that is a Navy installation is a far cry from the Paradise Point Estates at Kailua Bay, a luxury beachfront estate complex in O'ahu that cost us all extra as opposed to an already established and US-owned Naval installation.
But liberals aren't addressing that, are they?