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Originally Posted by darksyndrem
I say no matter who Obama is, he's still the President of the United Sates. He's my president. I may not agree with him on anything, but that doesn't change the fact that I should respect our president.
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I used to believe that too. But the the way Clinton disgraced the office, followed by rabid Bush hatred, with calls for his assassination, comparing him to Hitler, and calling him every name in the book for 8 years made me realize that I was too old-fashioned, that most people had absolutely no qualms about attacking the President if they didn't like him. I saw a lot of it first hand, since I was living in the San Francisco bay area for much of Bush's presidency. There were protests almost daily, and signs and placards that were so hateful many news stations couldn't even air them if they wanted to (and the left-wing SF media certainly didn't want to). They blocked streets for hours several times a week with their protests.
No where did I see Leftists saying "while we may not agree with all of Bush's policies, we should respect that he is the President and tone down the rhetoric." And when the Right said it, they were laughed at and called Nazis and brain-dead ditto-heads. Well, the shoe is on the other foot now, and after 8 years of the most hateful attacks against a President I've ever seen in my life, calls for civility and respect for the office ring utterly hollow and disingenuous... no offense to you or anyone in particular, just a general observation.