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Analysis: Obama Denied Respect the Office Demands
Wash Informer ^ | 10/9/10 | Mike Cottman

Posted on 10/09/2010 11:58:22 AM PDT by pissant

President Barack Obama gets no respect. Even as Republicans vow to repeal Obama’s sweeping health care law leading up to the crucial mid-term elections in November, one Republican candidate, Paul LePage, says if he’s elected governor of Maine, he plans to tell Obama “Go to hell.”

LePage, who is backed by the conservative tea party movement, spoke at a Republican forum last week while stumping for votes.

“And as your governor,” LePage told the crowd, you're gonna be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying ‘Gov. LePage tells Obama to go to hell.”

Why was that kind of profanity necessary? Who knows? It’s tough talk from LePage, a Republican hothead who not only disrespects Obama with his hateful comments, but he also disrespects the Office of the President.

Because Obama is America’s first black president, there is a question about whether LePage lashed out about Obama, in part, because he’s black. Would LePage have told a white president, who was a Democrat, to “go to hell?”

What’s clear is this: There will always be ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans but the tea party’s criticism of Obama’s policies usually turn ugly.

"If this is his attitude towards the president of the United States, I can't imagine what he would say when a local legislator or constituent disagrees with him," Arden Manning, who heads the Democrats' Victory 2010 campaign, said in a statement.

LePage, like many other Republicans, is critical of Obama’s economic recovery efforts and reminds the administration that the nation’s unemployment rate is stuck at 9.5 percent.

On Monday, Obama tried to counter the GOP’s assault and announced an initiative called Skills for America’s Future, a new, industry-led plan to substantially improve industry partnerships with community colleges and build a nationwide network to create jobs.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtoninformer.com ...


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Respect must gained the old fashioned way Mr. Cottman.


1 posted on 10/09/2010 11:58:30 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

I’ve got just one thing to say: FUBO!


2 posted on 10/09/2010 12:00:37 PM PDT by tatown (Obama is Kenyan for "I make love to a woman that looks like Patrick Ewing")
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To: pissant
As old Teddy Roosevelt said...

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

3 posted on 10/09/2010 12:01:12 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

unlike how GWBush was treated... with the utmost respect and dignity

/sarc


4 posted on 10/09/2010 12:01:59 PM PDT by sten
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To: pissant

Oh. You mean the same way the left respected Bush?


5 posted on 10/09/2010 12:02:13 PM PDT by mojito
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To: pissant
Hey cotton! What about the last decade?

YEAH! DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC UNLESS A LIBERAL IS IN OFFICE. LIBERALS ARE NAZIS AND HYPOCRITES!

6 posted on 10/09/2010 12:02:17 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: pissant

WAH WAH WAH! Funny how when it is their guy on the receiving end of the insults it is supposedly disrespectful. These people are just getting what they had coming after doing the same thing to W for 8 years.


7 posted on 10/09/2010 12:02:17 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pissant
Hey cotton! What about the last decade?

YEAH! DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC UNLESS A LIBERAL IS IN OFFICE. LIBERALS ARE NAZIS AND HYPOCRITES!

8 posted on 10/09/2010 12:02:23 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: pissant

Don’t you think that a black oriented publication might have a biased opinion on the matter?


9 posted on 10/09/2010 12:03:24 PM PDT by ab01
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To: pissant

I respect the office more than the current office holder respects it. As for the current occupant? If he were and honorable man, he’d have my respect.


10 posted on 10/09/2010 12:03:32 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: pissant

You’re right: ole funny ears has no respect for the American people.


11 posted on 10/09/2010 12:03:41 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: pissant

Obama cannot insult the voters, insult the office, and be a general embarrassment and then insist we respect the office.

I respect the office too much to have a jackanape like Obama infesting it.


12 posted on 10/09/2010 12:04:11 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
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To: pissant
He gets all the respect he demands


13 posted on 10/09/2010 12:04:14 PM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: ab01

I wonder if they chimed in to criticize the NAACP for running the ads accusing Bush of being responsible for Donald Byrd’s murder.


14 posted on 10/09/2010 12:05:26 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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Well, why don’t you just cry about it to Bushitler?/sarcasm

After the way the Democrats treated that man (and, frankly, anyone who had an R after their names) for eight years, they have no right to complain about anything anyone says about Barry “Rodney Dangerfield” Obama.


15 posted on 10/09/2010 12:05:48 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Truman: The buck stops here. Obama: Buck? What buck? Did I tell you how it's all Bush's fault?)
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To: mainestategop

16 posted on 10/09/2010 12:06:42 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: pissant

People in Hell demand ice water...


17 posted on 10/09/2010 12:08:37 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: God luvs America

Totally agree. You get what you give. The Office is way to big for this guy, it is getting very embarrassing to watch.


18 posted on 10/09/2010 12:08:52 PM PDT by jerseyrocks
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To: pissant

I couldn’t have put it better, my friend.


19 posted on 10/09/2010 12:08:52 PM PDT by Howie66 (I can see November from my house.)
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To: pissant
You're thinking of James Byrd, not the jazz musician :-)
20 posted on 10/09/2010 12:08:54 PM PDT by rabidralph
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