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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
To be fair, Bush had it the same way, it appears to be the standard in US politics.
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You bring up a very good point. This seems to be the fad to be openly disrespectful to the President. It really started with Clinton (that's when it got really bad, in my opinion) and seems to be the "in" thing to do.
People made fun of Carter, Reagan, and Bush 1 but not at the levels we saw with Clinton and Bush 2 and now with Obama.
I guess the cool intelligentsia disrespect the President. It shows how cynical and worldly you are.
I know that economically, too many people made a lot of money in the "bush bashing business" and they are not about to lose that revenue due to a change of administration. There is money in bashing the President evidently.
I wish there was a way to stop it, but I fear not. I honestly don't feel we can have a President that would not be abused like this.
Disliking the President is part of American Politics. But this trend of blatant disrespect is not, in my opinion, productive or good for our nation.
Perhaps this can be linked to the Internets Tubes. Clinton was the first President with the public Internet. The internet gives people who would ordinarily not have a venue, a venue to voice their opinions.
The Internet gives nobodys (and face it, most of us are) a venue to express our opinions internationally with just a few keystrokes.
To paraphrase an old comedy routine by Bill Cosby:
The Internet intensifies a person's personality, some people are a$$holes.
