[Chi-townChief]

Evidently, 0bama's mama never taught him that you have to give respect to get respect.

[crazyhorse691]

I guess she forgot that common enough saying during the Bush years (dissent is patriotic)that allowed unbridled disrespect for a white POTUS. Amazing just how racist the ones yelling racist really are. Yet, they are the first to ignore their own shortcomings while pointing out everybody else shortcomings.

[Dr. Thorne]

Frankly, telling the truth about Obama has to be disparagement.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I will agree not to disparage our president when aging hippies agree not to disparage Nixon.

[McGruff]

The guy can't even spell. Obama Misspells ‘Respect’ While Praising Franklin Before White House Concert

[MeshugeMikey]

most politicians have neither the time nor the specific talents necessary to do a through job of DISRESPECTING this slimey evil puke....

thats my job

[puppypusher]

Unfortunately for us Obama has already demeaned the Presidency of the United States along with the nation he claims to represent.

Obama is an unmitigated disaster that will take decades to repair the damage if it can be repaired at all.

This is one pResident that deserves all of the ridicule that can be thrown at him.

[Secret Agent Man]

obama flubbed spelling this. he tried to sing/speak it and failed.

[livius]

I guess they missed all the ugly things that were said about Bush. And in the case of Bush, they were unmerited.

In the case of Obama, you can’t say anything bad enough, in my opinion.

[RatRipper]

A man in a seat of vast power has no business belittling those who think differently than him. Intelligent public debate of the issues is far more suitable for a man in the office of the Presidency. But he refuses to subject himself to a fair debate of his policies, but routinely mocks those who disagree with him.

An office holder conducts himself, as he does, in a way that is beneath the office he holds, and refusing to stand up like a man and debate his critics over his policies, should be held accountable in the only remaining way his constituents have left: through open criticism and ridicule. He has brought it on himself. Hiding behind the office he holds, in this case, is sheer cowardice and clear provocation of the nation who put him in office, that is if one stretches to believe that he did not conduct widespread election fraud to win the second election.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"Evidently, 0bama's mama never taught him that you have to give respect to get respect."

Exactly! Listen to any one of his speeches if you want to hear him disparage someone or a group. But no one can do it back?

[MrB]

Ah... I was doing an over/under in my head about when the race card would be played - halfway through. That blows most over/under bets right there.

Mr/Ms Author - were the attacks on President Bush more respectful? I don’t seem to remember them being restrained in the least, even calling him a “chimp”.

Mr/Ms Author - are you proposing that we’d support this president’s policies if only he were white? Uh huh...

Mr/Ms Author - or is it that the president’s skin color is supposed to shield him from criticism because he and his supporters are too THIN skinned, not dark skinned, to take criticism?

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, right. “Chimpy McBushitler”, wasn’t it? Spare me, Laura.

[SampleMan]

I'll stop denigrating the Presidency when Obama does.

[TigersEye]

‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T,” the song goes. It is easy enough to spell,...

Incredibly easy.

President Obama Misspells 5th Grade Vocabulary Word [R-E-S-P-E-C-T] (video 0:31)

[Hoffer Rand]

Wonder if Laura was writing this same op ed in the years between 2001 and 2009. Somehow, I suspect not. In fact, I’d be willing to bet money on it.

[kcvl]

Views » September 25, 2007

Let’s Pry Open Those Cold, Dead Hands

To defeat the gun lobby, gun-control activists need to get out of late-night local cable and embrace the Internet

BY Laura S. Washington

[RayChuang88]

The author needs to realize that one of the very reasons why we had the American Revolution was because American colonial skepticism of the British government doing the right thing was proven correct by all those laws passed by Parliament that really trampled on colonial rights after the French and Indian War. (We do remember the Stamp Act from our American history class and how well that went over with American colonists.)

As such, that's why the late Ronald Reagan described it best with a well-known Russian proverb: doveryai, no proveryai (trust, but verify). And unfortunately, we've pretty much verified that President Obama is not doing the things that could make our country better.

[relictele]

Still, we are talking about the president of the United States, a man who, while imperfect, is very much a grown-up, possesses high intelligence and has many talents. In two national elections, American voters definitively entrusted that man with the job.

I'm sure she expressed similar high-minded thoughts during the years 2000-2008.

[kcvl]

Laura S. Washington brings more than two decades of experience as a nonprofit professional and multimedia journalist who specializes in African-American affairs, local and national politics, race and racism, and social justice.

In 1985, Washington was appointed deputy press secretary to Mayor Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor. She also served as a producer for the investigative unit at CBS-2/Chicago and as a correspondent for Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV.

Newsweek named Washington one of the nation’s “100 people to watch” in the 21st century.

Twitter handle:

@MediaDervish

[RetiredNavy]

This has got to be a reprint from The Onion.