The myth of 'standing behind your president'.

This idiotic phrase gets used a lot, almost as much as 'wake up America', or 'support the troops', it's just another meaningless slogan.

Of course if you didn't vote for the president, you're less inclined to stand behind him or her, and if you did vote for him or her, you are more inclined to stand behind.

Hypocritical is a poor word to describe the current crop of republiks who are wailing this phrase to the high heavens, 'we need to get behind our president', and you know these are the very same people who were screaming for President Bill Clinton's head on a pike.

On what holy slab of granite is it written that a person MUST stand behind the president? And they always add the caveat, 'cause we're at war'! Yeah you dumbasses, we're at war BECAUSE THIS MANIAC TRICKED US ALL INTO ONE. (sorry for the screaming)

I believe it was our furry little friends the lemmings who originally came up with this ridiculous phrase, that first lemming you see going over the cliff, HE'S the president.

tell them, "You know, that's exactly what Britney Spears said too."

That'll cure 'em.

The American people in the past have fallen for this stuff.

Good advice (yeah, sarcasm).

During the Civil War, there was a vigorous and vocal opposition to Lincoln on the part of the Democrats as well as Radical Republicans. When a general shut down the Chicago Times for anti-war sloganeering, Lincoln overrode the order and had the press back up and running. When Congressman Vallendagh of Ohio, who was inciting Union soldier to desert, was arrested and held, Lincoln had him sent to Confederate lines rather than languish in jail--and when that same fellow slipped off to Canada and ran for Ohio governor on a peace platform, Lincoln did nothing, relying on the people to do things right. The Civil War was a time of a REAL threat to our national government--and Lincoln never insisted that the country stand behind him. The country was more important than he was, and he knew it. Maybe that is one reason he is considered one of our greatest Presidents.

It's as though they've been asleep since the 1770s and think that the political system is all about following King George blindly and without question.

And they talk about 'spreading democracy'...

I hear whenever I say something unflattering to his smirkiness.

You should see what I do back there. :D :spank: for a start.

many times, myself...

"No. He's wrong." It's impossible for me to be any more succinct.
The Professor

I wish I could find a copy of the entire editorial, but President Theodore Roosevelt wrote an editorial to the Kansas City Star which was published on May 7, 1918 (after he left office.) It read, in part:

Citizens are expected to be critically-minded, active and engaged.

Bush has the market cornered on embarrassing himself.

I would consider standing behind him. When I was a young'un, the President led everybody in the country, not just the whackos that maneuvered him into office. In six years, I have not seen a shred of leadership from that cretin.

He is not my president.

This President should too.

He's meant to be protecting the Constitution, period.

Only the servile "stand behind" their elected officials.