[Camachee]

Actually, if you listen to so-called conservative talk show hosts like Hannity and Rush, they often just call him just "Bush" in discussions. It's just a general incivility and lack of protocol and doesn't belong exclusively to the left. You'd think our side could do better.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The AP Stylebook gives "Mr.---- or President ---- as proper.

[AAABEST]

Mr. Bush holds our citizens and constitution in contempt with his un-American and socialist policies.

Forget respect, he should hang his blue-blooded head in shame.

[altura]

I sometimes do that in posting (say "Bush"). Sometimes I say Dubya. Sometimes I say The Prez. It's called lazy typing.

But as for the Today show, it may be a calculated effort to show disrespect.

[CyberAnt]

It's called NO RESPECT!!

It's from the Me Me Me generation .. they have discarded the former civil acts of simple respect for a person .. even if you disagree with his policies.

To the current leaders of the left .. disagreeing with their policies is HATRED of them. Poor things!