Social Studies teacher: Don't you dare say bad things about the President!

[Lorizael]

All public officials should be subject to constant ridicule. There's a reason we didn't call our executive a King.

[Wiglaf]

While I agree that this woman went WAY overboard here, the concept that the sitting president deserves a little respect is not that terrible of an idea.

Think back to the old days when Kennedy was bopping starlets on the side. The press showed considerable restraint and respect for the office by not splashing it on the front pages.
Was that such a bad thing?

Considering he almost left the nuclear launch codes in one of their vaginas, I think we can safely conclude that it was a bad thing.

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[Guynemer]

There was a snuke in her snizz?

[Ben Kenobi]

So I take that to mean that you don't believe the office of president rates any respect. I will disagree.

I just think that those who ridicule a president that they disagree with relentlessly, should expect the favor to be returned for a president that they do like.

But using an avatar of a black jimmy carter to poke fun of the president is. There are ways to to criticize without being disrespectful

How is comparing one beloved Democrat president with another beloved Democrat president disrespectful to the presidency? And that avatar wasn't a black Jimmy Carter. It was a White Jimmy Carter head with Obama's facial features.

[Ben Kenobi]

Criticizing the President for a policy decision (like the Iraq War, which is the subject that lead to the "dissent is patriotic" language) is not being disrespectful to the office of the President.

So criticizing Obama for enacting Obamacare is patriotic dissent?

[giblets]

Has anyone EVER claimed that criticizing Obamacare is unpatriotic?

[Elok]

All public officials should be subject to constant ridicule. There's a reason we didn't call our executive a King.

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[Elok]

Also, I remember back when GWB got the shoe thrown at him. I wished I could shake that Iraqi dude's hand, but my fairly conservative sister-in-law was indignant. She said that, while you could criticize the man, the office of the president deserved a little respect. I think my reply was that GWB was disrespecting the office of the president merely by occupying it. Also, if some foreign country came in and turned the US upside down, then its leader came over and gave a "well, you're doing an OK job cleaning up the mess we made of your country, I guess" speech...in that case, that ***** better just appreciate the shoe, and be grateful I couldn't smuggle in a cinderblock.

But I digress. The President, as the elected head of a democracy, is a public servant, and if your servant screws up, you make it crystal-clear. Ideally without being abusive, but even that's better than the silly imperial grovelling we generally give him.

[rah]

How is comparing one beloved Democrat president with another beloved Democrat president disrespectful to the presidency? And that avatar wasn't a black Jimmy Carter. It was a White Jimmy Carter head with Obama's facial features.

Typical ben-douche. Are you trying to tell me that your use of that avatar was not a jab at Obama?

[kentonio]

The President, as the elected head of a democracy, is a public servant, and if your servant screws up, you make it crystal-clear. Ideally without being abusive, but even that's better than the silly imperial grovelling we generally give him.

This. That's why we save our grovelling for the unelected figurehead head of state, and abuse the **** out of our elected representatives and Prime Minister.

[The Mad Monk]

Also, I remember back when GWB got the shoe thrown at him. I wished I could shake that Iraqi dude's hand, but my fairly conservative sister-in-law was indignant. She said that, while you could criticize the man, the office of the president deserved a little respect. I think my reply was that GWB was disrespecting the office of the president merely by occupying it. Also, if some foreign country came in and turned the US upside down, then its leader came over and gave a "well, you're doing an OK job cleaning up the mess we made of your country, I guess" speech...in that case, that ***** better just appreciate the shoe, and be grateful I couldn't smuggle in a cinderblock.

But I digress. The President, as the elected head of a democracy, is a public servant, and if your servant screws up, you make it crystal-clear. Ideally without being abusive, but even that's better than the silly imperial grovelling we generally give him.

This.

[Ben Kenobi]

Are you trying to tell me that your use of that avatar was not a jab at Obama?

It was a jab at Jimmy Carter.

[The Mad Monk]

Typical ben-douche. Are you trying to tell me that your use of that avatar was not a jab at Obama?

Is your objection to the image, or the comparison?

For example, if I were to say, "Obama is a peanut farm away from being Jimmy Carter", how would feel about that?

[rah]

Ben was using it to poke fun at a President. Despite anything that he's claiming now. He forgets that I have read his posts at another site that leaned to the right more than Poly. He took pride in it there since most agreed with him. So I won't believe anything he says if it's about giving the office of president an amount of respect since his action prove he doesn't believe it is due.
That's my objection.

[Wiglaf]

Also, I remember back when GWB got the shoe thrown at him. I wished I could shake that Iraqi dude's hand, but my fairly conservative sister-in-law was indignant. She said that, while you could criticize the man, the office of the president deserved a little respect. I think my reply was that GWB was disrespecting the office of the president merely by occupying it.

Did she point out that the previous president used his power to sexually harass interns while his wife was in the White House?

Also, if some foreign country came in and turned the US upside down, then its leader came over and gave a "well, you're doing an OK job cleaning up the mess we made of your country, I guess" speech...in that case, that ***** better just appreciate the shoe, and be grateful I couldn't smuggle in a cinderblock.

Irony, isn't it, that throwing a shoe at Saddam would have gotten that guy and his entire family executed and decapitated. Because Bush cleaned up Iraq, which was barely a third world nation in 2003, he's now out of jail on probation.