| Comrade Tovya said:
OMG, conspiracy people just make their respective political parties/idealogies look rather pitiful... The one thing that really gets me is the double standard. I would never mock Obama, because he deserves the respect of the office that he will control... But, for arguements sake, if Obama were to be mocked and called "stupid" for only being able to answer questions on a teleprompter... or if he was at a press conference and a shoe was thrown at him, people would just be outraged and called racists if they dare made fun of him for it. That's what bothers me really. I hate double standards. And I certainly have no respect people who disrespect our democratically elected leaders. I don't mean that we have to agree with their decisions, I just think it's childish and low to act like toddlers and throw petty insults at them. I mean really, how old are we? Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that no one in this forum personally knows Bush, so it's certainly not possible for anyone to truly know how smart the guy really is. I've actually met him many times (back in my party days when he was elected the first time) and I thought he was a really bright and genuine guy. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he is flawless by any means, and he's made many decisions that rubbed me the wrong way... but he's not "dumb" by any means. He's very intelligent, he just not much of a political guy, and really doesn't speak well. But then again, I don't speak well either, and my IQ is 167... a person's ability to speak well isn't neccesarily a gauge on their mental abilities (of course then again, I had some serious brain damage when I was young, so I have an excuse). Either way, despite my differences with Bush, I just think it's disrespectful to insult someone the way he is insulted. And I strongly feel the same way about Obama as well. I truly believe in giving the presidency the respect that it deserves, even when someone disagrees with the executive branch's policies. It's just a matter of basic respect really that we should show all human beings. |
This is all well and good, but this person is RUNNING THE COUNTRY. He should be held to a higher standard than EVERYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY. This isn't like the special olympics. We don't just give credit for people trying hard and have an "everyone gets a prize" mentality.
And yes, it does piss me off that he can't speak well, and it should piss everyone off. This person is representing our entire nation and is the most visible person in our country. If he sounds like a fucking idiot, how do you think that makes us look? I don't understand why you are so willing to give him a free pass. We shouldn't judge the President as we would judge anyone else, we should judge him using even stricter criteria.
People get offended when Bush is called a redneck, how is that any different than someone getting offended when someone insults Obama's race? Its the end of Bush's term, anything good or bad he has done has pretty much already taken place. Its not like we need to be supportive of him because he still has to run the country or something.
And if you don't believe me, ask the rest of the country.
CNN Poll: Three out of four Americans glad to see Bush go
Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they're glad President Bush is going, with 23 percent indicating they'll miss him.
The three-quarters of Americans surveyed who say they won't miss Bush is 24 points higher than the 51 percent who said they wouldn't miss Bill Clinton when he left office in January 2001. Forty-five percent of those questioned at that time said they would miss Clinton.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
