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This petition will be delivered to: Target: Remove the Disrespectful Cards about Pres. Obama
Whether a person supports President Obama's policies or not, he is the president of the United States. The office of president is not just the person who is in the office; it is an institution. The president is the figurehead of the U.S.--some even say, "the leader of the free world." Target should not stock, support, and sell cards that blatantly disrespect who the president is.
American citizens and corporations showing blatant, overt disrespect to the president shows Americans in a negative light; it reflects negatively on the image of Americans in other parts of the world.
https://www.change.org/p/target-remove-the-disrespectful-cards-about-pres-obama?recruiter=2682369&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive
Please remove this card and others like it.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)They are relatively the same except they josh Bush on his speaking. We are 50 percent of the population. The other half wants the cards like we did in early 2000's.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)You're right. I agree.
Don't have to like it, but I agree.
On edit-
Still, they are also definitely on point for setting up a petition such as this.
I am sure they did the same thing back then too.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I liked their funny political cards when I used to shop there.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Unfortunately they fell to the ground while I was holding them and got stepped on and kicked underneath the counter.
Oopsie!
elleng
(130,908 posts)Oktober
(1,488 posts)Classy...
Destroy anything else that didn't belong to you while you were there?
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)So what if I'm not the neatest person in the world.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Why not buy them and then destroy them?
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)I think cards like these should be available to those who want to buy them. We had mildly disrespectful cards & calendars for the pretzeldent W, remember?
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)that portrayed Dubya that way for my sister.
This one is horrible, but the Dubya card wasn't.
vi5
(13,305 posts)They've had this type of thing for every president in my lifetime. Why should Obama be any different?
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)http://stupid-ideas.blogspot.com/2006/08/george-bush-dog-poop-flags.html
Gotta lighten up. We don't elect a King, nor do we have to treat our elected officials as sacrosanct.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)funny as hell.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)... doesn't win.
charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)As the posters above said, if we can mock Bush, they can mock Obama.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And free speech also allows the petition to remove it...
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Just ignore it, those that don't like them, won't buy them.
AZ Mike
(468 posts)Who really gives a damn about this?
No president deserves fealty. There is nothing offensive about this card. This is oversensitivity. I'm very defensive on behalf of Obama, but only when it actually matters - such as when people compare him to Hitler or claim he's a communist.
This, however, is silliness.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)then proceed.
Otherwise, grow some thicker skin. He's the President, not your teen idol.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)A little light-hearted humor at the expense of the President of one of the most powerful countries in the world and a multi-millionaire. Yeah, that will be high on my list of priorities. Have you seen this President take part in more disrespectful actions than this card? Have you petitioned to get him out of the White House? Of course not.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)right after I finish asking Target to stop putting the hand shopping baskets so far away from the door. If I'm forced to use a cart I'm going to fill it even if I'm just there to buy toilet paper.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Oh, I don't know, maybe if Obama ignored warnings of an impending attack on US soil, then sat and did nothing while that attack took place, then flew all of the mastermind's relatives (O's family friends and business partners) out of the US the day after the attack when commercial airliners were grounded and before the FBI could question them, then invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attack, killing hundreds of thousands of people and adding trillions to the US deficit, I might feel differently about a card lampooning him.
But until that time, I see a universe of difference between B and O.
former9thward
(32,006 posts)No difference. We have had it in this country since day one.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)These same cards were there for Bush, and I wouldn't have petitioned to have those removed.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)This behavior was first classified as a criminal offence against the dignity of the Roman Republic of Ancient Rome.[citation needed] In the Dominate, or Late Empire period the emperors eliminated the Republican trappings of their predecessors and began to identify the state with their person.[2] Although legally the princeps civitatis (his official title, meaning, roughly, 'first citizen') could never become a sovereign because the republic was never officially abolished, emperors were deified as divus, first posthumously but by the Dominate period while reigning. Deified emperors enjoyed the same legal protection that was accorded to the divinities of the state cult; by the time it was replaced by Christianity, what was in all but name a monarchical tradition had already become well established.
Narrower conceptions of offences against Majesty as offences against the crown predominated in the European kingdoms that emerged in the early medieval period. In feudal Europe, some crimes were classified as lèse-majesté even if they were not intentionally directed against the crown. An example is counterfeiting, so classified because coins bore the monarch's effigy and/or coat of arms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse-majesté
Brigid
(17,621 posts)As others have already said, I remember identical cards back in the Bush years.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Ridicule is one of the prices of holding political office, as it should be.
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)there was so much anti-shrub stuff out there and their "respect the office" calls.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Your family member or "friend" who thinks it's all Obama's fault. And sign it your Emperor in Chief. These cards would be great for Obama to send to GOP members of congress and senate.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)I've received some. I think it's more "poking fun" than disrespect.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)We had them when Bush was president, we had them when Obama's president, and we'll have them for whomever is the next president.
Plenty of worse things to get worked up about.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)with George W Bush dressed in drag (a different outfit every card). That's in no less bad taste than these cards. First amendment means sometimes you get offended. Welcome to the USA.
lynne
(3,118 posts)- there are similar cards for every president and they've been around for years. Get a sense of humor!