You know, even though Bush was a putz and an awful president...

He still was the president and so he was to be afforded the respect that comes with the office...

That's what the way I felt...

Not to say I didn't criticize him at every chance, or didn't support most of his policies, at the end of the day he was still my president because I am a citizen of the United States and he was the president.

And yes, after this complete denigration of our, as in the American, not democrat, American, president, I will still afford respect for any republican ever elected for the rest of my life.

This idea that YOUR president, YOUR guy is just too much.

Too continue to say he is not my president is borderline treasonous.

He is the President of the United States of America, deal with it.

I respect the office but can still loath the person occupying the Oval Office...

The same goes for president Obama. I voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary but still supported my candidate, the democrat, Barack Obama.

because failure hurts everyone. Bush was a failure but it wasn't as though I was cheering that on.

THese idiots who work to make sure Obama fails just to score some political points don't care about the country.

and I mourned for our country every day he was in office.

despite the fact I couldn't stand the guy personally or politically. But he was the president. So too is Obama. And I still have hope that he can turn it around.

any respect that comes with the office.

NO president deserves respect unless he has earned it and simply getting elected in no way makes him deserving of respect.

If you think I am treasonous, I very much disagree. "He is the president of the usa, deal with it", true. But this in no way means he is deserving of respect. Respect the office, but not the person, perhaps.

Wishing for failure to score political points? Shame on whomever does that.

Not having respect="treason"? Shame on you.

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and I NEVER will. I had NO respect for him whatsoever, I couldn't respect the office that he had stolen. :shrug:

I mean, I always knew it was corrupt, but I used to think it could still function in a coherent way, now I know better,

He kept a lid on the worst of the worst Islamophobia. Probably b/c there was a white guy and an R in the White House, but still.

I mean, he actually visited a Mosque.

Had zero respect for him, he was insanely destructive, but I have to give him that.

I NEVER considered that SOB, SCOTUS appointed SQUATTER my President. I still loath that man and always will. Just because someone sits in that very comfy WH, doesn't mean they are beyond reproach when they do bad things. They really aren't any better or any more important than the people they work for....US. Anyone who represents something I abhor, isn't getting respect. Why the hell should they? They're WRONG. They're destructive. They're mean. They're evil. They're hateful. They're REPUBLICAN.

The PRESIDENCY isn't what it use to be. That flew out the door with the SCOTUS making it their job to appoint someone to that office.

Why does a President automatically deserve respect? That makes no sense.

They accused us of being traitors to our country too, when we criticized him

But, I think Obama has been disrespected in ways that presidents have not been. Accusations that he's not a citizen. A guy yelled "you lie" during the SOU address. Someone calls him and lies to him and tells the press he did it. A slew of accusations that he's secretly a republicans, treasonous, etc.

Disrespect coming from enemies and former allies. We are permitted, even obligated to criticize our elected officials. But there is a way to do it with more respect than I have seen sometimes.

But they weren't on TV...

All the real salacious stuff was put out locally and the national media never really saw what was going on...

Ford took office as president after never having been elected to the executive branch on the heels of an incredibly corrupt president.
Bush took office after questionable election results.
Both were treated with more respect than Obama who was elected by a wide margin.

What's wrong with this picture?

Not monarchs, not gods. just saying.

that Americans don't say "our President" in the way the British say "our Queen". He says, Americans use "the president".

It's not the office or the title that I have any respect for - it's the character of the person holding the office/wearing the title that determines whether I respect them or not.

he didn't win the election(s) so I have no qualms about saying that he was not my President.

Barack Obama was legally elected. By a landslide. That's the difference.

The fuck stole the election. He was never ever a legitimate president.

He didn't win the elections. He was selected. And I, for one, never once forgot that. It's no big fucking surprise that we're where we are now because of that day. Everything since has been illegitimate because it's been based on a foundation of lies.