Don"t say Bush this & that Clinton was no alter boy-I really mean loving what we stand for or is that lost because I remember growing up and everyone was repectful and proud to be american
supported the people we elected in office Dem. or Rep.and you sure didn't let people bad mouth us.
2006-11-19 19:30:57 · 20 answers · asked by josh m 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
again this is not about the person it's about the office
2006-11-19 19:38:01 · update #1
Well I see most of you want to make it about the person in office maybe you should ask this question to a generation older than yours and see what they say.
2006-11-19 19:54:13 · update #2
Man you people need to get off the same rhetoric that you have been thinking and saying. All I ever hear is Bush’s illegal war and Clinton’s secret bombings with jets painted to be from NATO. You know the question is not even about that. Did you know that there were draft riots because people did not want to fight in the civil war?
If you look at the untied states over the past 100 years you can see the changes. Every generation has gotten a little worse. Now all you see on TV is sex and violence. This has been a slow growing thing until computers. Now we are moving faster and losing all the respect for each other but mostly for ourselves. This nation should be ashamed of the things we do. I know that the question is about when did we lose respect for the presidency but you can not just say that that is all we have lost respect for. As far as the presidency goes I would say it started to get real ugly when we were losing so many men in Vietnam. People are all happy when in the times of WWII and we were winning. Thousands of people died but we were seeing much progress. When we were getting no real results people got mad and blamed the president. Now that is when I can say flat out blatant disrespect for the president came to rise. Which right about the time that the liberal party was hijacked by radicals. To think that it was once a great party.
2006-11-19 20:59:42 · answer #1 · answered by Logical Leroy 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What ever happened to the President respecting the will of the people? Maybe you aren't old enough to remember Watergate or the Viet Nam war. The office of the president comes with a certain amount of respect. However you cannot thumb your nose at the American people and expect to be respected. There is a large difference between respecting the office and the person. George W. Bush has not earned my respect. A little American history. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, their duel was all about disrespect. Hamilton challenged Burr's honor. Boom, end of story. One has to earn respect, it is not inherited by a title. Were you this upset about Clinton's impeachment over a sex act?
2006-11-20 07:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
While being elected to an office carries some default respect based on the position, that respect still needs to be earned or at least not wasted away.
Loving the country also means respecting its values. Bush has so abused his position, and so disrespected the country as a whole, that he doesn't deserve the respect that is afforded the office of President.
2006-11-20 03:58:09 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Loving America and respecting the office of the President are two concepts that are lost on a lot of American liberals. Especially when there's someone in the White House who they don't like.
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2006-11-20 04:06:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some or most of you that have already answered this question need to go back 200 years and read old letters and newspaper articles out of the colonies, etc. There was EXTREME divisiveness between the parties, backstabbing, name-calling, dirty negative campaigning. What makes you think it is a modern day phenomenon? Sure they didn't do it on TV and radio, but in pubs, churches, and printed flyers. Stop your bellyaching!
2006-11-20 05:16:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Nixon and Watergate, Ronald Reagan with Iran/Contra, the senior Bush same scandal. Then came Bubba, they poked and prodded and things they couldn't find they made up. Now there is the Junior Bush and it is this and that. He has caused more divisiveness then any president since Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam war. People put politicians at the top of the list for graft and is it any wonder.
2006-11-20 03:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you respect a LIAR LIAR? You cant love what kills you or what betrays you. We had been betrayed by this administration misleading us into a war to get the wrong guy under false pretext of weapons of mass DELUSION! We had been fooled again in an election that was stolen in 2000 with the creation of felon lists and the stopping of recount middle way. He had set a priority for our country that is not Our priority and spent our money to the point of deficit to achieve his agenda, How can you respect such an atrocity. Besides you should have some respect to the innocent 21 year olds dying in vain in a war for his Oil interests. Now they even put them in jail and ruin their record for a WAR he wanted to have. He don't deserve any respect!
2006-11-20 03:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by ION-CONSTITUTION 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People have criticized the president for years. Rush Limbaugh built his career on dissing Clinton, 15 hours a week, for 8 years. Perhaps that was before your time: 1992 - 2000?
2006-11-20 03:39:05 · answer #8 · answered by Muscat 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because we are all divided among party lines. I believe almost half of the country would like to see the US brought to her knees, which is a disgrace. Your right the generation who loved and cherished what our nation stood for is lost, now we have "protect the enemy" even if it cost us our lives shouting at every corner of America. Now as for respecting the Office of the presidency? I believe that was lost long ago also. It won't ever be back, As long as people keep voting for people who only side with the polls.
2006-11-20 04:58:57 · answer #9 · answered by tigerbaby322006 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I support the President and the troops and I am very proud to be an American. I think it is sad that people nit pick our President because he is human after all. Everyone has faults but I really think there are other influences that affect how people feel. Everyone is entitiled to their opinion and I don't bash others for what they believe.
2006-11-20 03:34:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋