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 ...
I’ve got just one thing to say: FUBO!
"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."
unlike how GWBush was treated... with the utmost respect and dignity
/sarc
Oh. You mean the same way the left respected Bush?
YEAH! DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC UNLESS A LIBERAL IS IN OFFICE. LIBERALS ARE NAZIS AND HYPOCRITES!
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.
YEAH! DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC UNLESS A LIBERAL IS IN OFFICE. LIBERALS ARE NAZIS AND HYPOCRITES!
Don’t you think that a black oriented publication might have a biased opinion on the matter?
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.
You’re right: ole funny ears has no respect for the American people.
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.
I wonder if they chimed in to criticize the NAACP for running the ads accusing Bush of being responsible for Donald Byrd’s murder.
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.
People in Hell demand ice water...
Totally agree. You get what you give. The Office is way to big for this guy, it is getting very embarrassing to watch.
I couldn’t have put it better, my friend.
What is the problem Cottman? Obama gets the same respect from the right as the left gave to Bush. So stop your whining already. Oh, I forgot, your are a liberal.....you can’t stop whining......
We respected Johnson, only to watch Hillary and her gang of thugs destroy Nixon. We respected Carter only to watch them mock and ridicule Reagan for 8 years. We respected Clinton only to watch him get blow jobs from 18 year old interns and hear of rape accusations all day long, and Ken Starr was the bad guy. Then we watched George Soros lead the Communists to destroy Bush for 8 years and then finally the American economy and install this communist asshole in office. Respect? Obama is the ENEMY of the American Constitution.
Obama is a lousy stinking Communist thug who should be up against the wall. He deserves no respect.
Where’s the MEGABARF alert?
The HURL-TILL-YOU-CURL alert?
The HEAVE-TILL-YOU’RE-DRY alert?
Obama disrespects the office and the people...
The left took 9 full years to teach us that the correct way to speak of the President was to use derogatory words, and that we must modify any picture so that he looked like a chimpanzee.
” Where’s the MEGABARF alert? “
Actually, all this limp-wristed rehash of old NAACP/DNC talking (whining) points deserves is a lower-case “lol alert”......
***”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.” ***
PERFECT!
Perhaps he should have thought out the consequences of his plans. The disaster he caused was 100% predictable.
I wonder if Mike Cottman finds it hard to breathe with his head up his @$$ all the time?
Obama himself disrespects the office more than anyone else.
Why do I have to respect liars who steal from me?
But disrespecting a Republican President is not disrespecting 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.
Obama is 'black'? I didn't know that. That never appeared in the context of any of the candidates comments.
Would LePage have told a white president, who was a Democrat, to “go to hell?”
Not just LePage, but a whole lot of people told Bill Clinton to go to hell. Conversely, a lot of people told President Bush to go to hell, and many of them are in the MSM and Democratic Party Leadership. Reid, Pelosi, Frank.
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.
That's because the policies are ugly. We only attack bad policy. We criticize the President for his choice of bad policy. We'd support him if he chose something that made sense.
When Bill Clinton was a coward and got his wife to push govt healthcare down out throats, we told both of them to go to hell. Politicians don’t deserve respect when they forget who they are working for.
I mean, the press and the opposition party never said anything disrespectful about President Bush during his two terms. Never, ever.
So, it's quite clear that there's some racism going on.
< /s>
The world is a smaller place since he passed...
8^D
Exactly how much “respect” did the Dims give to Bush!!!
Translation to English: Obama Denies Respect the Nation Demands
jackass said it all!
Oh, yes—it’s because he’s black, isn’t it? LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Obama, just like the street thugs he was around, and now represents, see RESPECT as an ENTITLEMENT.
They don’t believe they have to do anything to ‘deserve’ it.
a lot of me on the front page saying ‘Gov. LePage tells Obama to go to hell.”
Why was that kind of profanity necessary?
Wow.
He said Hell.
What did Biden say???
Big 0?
Rahm?
The finger by the Prez................
If the white president did what Obama has done, then hell yeah. Libs are obsessed with race every day of their miserable lives.
Just wait till we get a look at the “respect” these
folks show President Palin. That won’t be racist though
only sexist.
Nor for the OFFICE and FURNITURE we provided for him.
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