There was a time when people had respect for the president. He was protected from everything, including cheating on his wife or what he used to do before he became president.
2006-07-27 15:24:30 · 19 answers · asked by Jacks036 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There was a time when the president respected the people.. Those times are long gone.. Put it this way, have you ever noticed how the president actually gets more done when his approval rating are low? If everybody respected him always for no reason, absolutely nothing would get done except for his agenda which is very differant from the peoples..
2006-07-27 15:44:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
The Office Of The President should be respected. Especially by the one holding the office at the time.
2006-07-27 15:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
!no.!.. There once was a time when the government Served the people.
When you start your question off with a negative you create bias and show your lack of willingness to see the forest for the trees.
The last two elections were a fraud. They CHEATED.
they disqualified as many of the votes as they could. Not since Jim Crow has it been this bad. he said the constitution is 'just' a piece of paper. He has no respect for anyone. He just feeds off the greed of his cronies and Ignored the people of New Orleans.
Like Marie Antwonette... He ate cake while the people he was SUPOSED To Protect and Serve..died from heat exhaustion.
A competent man would have taken better care than this egomaniac did..
If your Daddy was an Arsonist and he set some of the neighbors homes on fire would you aid and abet in his crimes out of some misguided loyalty? sad to say you might.
What if people died in the fire your daddy set. The Law
is the Law and Big Daddy has broken many laws and set many fires...and here you are aiding and abetting the crimes because you are blindly Loyal.
Are you ever going to see the emperor is ruining America and his policies have provoked the citizens of most nations to turn against us. Wake Up PLEASE Please Please Wake Up
2006-07-27 19:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by ??IMAGINE ?? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The no matter how he got in office part of the question is very strange. The president will get into office by two ways
#1 winning the electoral vote
#2 the sitting president leaves office for any legal reason.
IE medical , assassination , impeachment , resignation.
Yes he deserves our respect until he breeches our constitution
and then we can hang him and call him Clinton
2006-07-27 15:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by PAUL W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like John F Kennedy, GW Bush was elected by the electoral college of the united states, when they would have lost a popular election of the people. However, Bush won the popular vote for his second term...by a large margin I might add.
Just for the record, Bush is still very respected, even though to look on here, or in most news media you wouldn't beleive it.
I"m just curious, have you asked many soldiers who have spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan if they respect our president? CNN hasn't. Several freinds of mine who are in the national guard right now, repect him greatly.
2006-07-27 15:35:22 · answer #5 · answered by Mickey L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice : Robert H. Parker
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Learn more about our history!
2006-07-27 17:43:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! I never respected Bill Clinton who never recieved 50% of the vote. But was elected twice. A mojority of the American people voted against Bill Clinton twice, yet he was still our president. ShameFull. Even W won a Majority the second time around.
2006-07-27 15:32:54 · answer #7 · answered by chuckles 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Bush was duly elected according to our laws, his first term (note that the people rejected the change to our system afterward that would have changed the outcome of the election, so no one but liberals care about that). His second term, he won by a comfortable margin. The next republican president in '08 will likely win by a sizeable margin. The dems are almost completely marginalized politically by their own bad behavior. No one takes them seriously. They are actually in danger of a republican super majority this september. If that happens, they quite literally will have no power and no say whatsoever in what goes on in this country.
2006-07-27 15:30:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously presidents are stilled protected. No one gets any respect for anything. Not even presidents anymore.
2006-07-27 15:28:53 · answer #9 · answered by Jacob A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the president respects the people, the people will respect him. SO obviously the people are not feeling respected these days.
2006-07-27 15:33:04 · answer #10 · answered by politicallypuzzeled 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋