Shouldn't people respect the office of our President?

Question

It seems as if regardless of whom ever is in office I see very little respect. Do you think we the people should at least show respect for the office?

Answer 1

Yes, they should. I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance when I was in school. It seems that the Pledge of Allegiance is passe now. Many people just do not understand the concept.

Answer 2

There is respect for the office. Just not always whose in. I

f it's a Democrat - the Conservatives gripe because they're not making the big bucks off the backs and sweat of the hard working Americans or the illegal immigrants coming over.

If it's a Conservative - the Democrats gripe about one thing or another (which is not always, but usually 100% true) especially about the separation/widening of the class status's by taxing even more the middle class, lower class, and the poor, while basically the rich are getting a free ride in tax breaks.

A matter of checks and balances. So either way one party or another is going to accuse the other of running the country into the ground. It's only a matter of time of who will arrive at it first. So far the Conservatives are winning by a far margin - imo

Answer 3

As many other people has said before, respect is something that has to be earned. Just because someone is in office does not automatically mean I'm going to respect them or the office. This is America I have a right to critize the government and will do so. Especially, if I think they are tromping on the Constitution, this President as well as others, I will not show them any respect. They obviously have no respect for this country or it's freedom.

Answer 4

I think the person holding the office of the President should consistently act in a way that the vast majority of the people would respect and in doing so gaining, maintaining and increasing said respect as well as being much more likely to do whats right and good consistently. Figuring out how to conduct oneself that way is figuring out how the president aught to conduct him or herself. I also think people really do respect a president or a person more when they really try to do whats right and good consistently, and do more so when how those ideals are striven for is as major a consideration as knowing what the right and good thing is to do. Especially when the President tries everyday to know what the people think he or she aught to do and how.

Answer 5

Absolutely, respect the office however, Theodore Roosevelt said it best

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. 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. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918

Answer 6

Believe me people are respecting the office but not necessarily the person in that office.


"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else"
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

Answer 7

I believe most people respect the OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT; sometimes, though, it's difficult to respect the individual who holds that office.
Respect is something that is earned - not something that is demanded. Unfortunately, most Presidents today deserve any respect because they - like most members of Congress - or not 'honorable' men and women. They are arrogant liars who have long forgotten that they're supposed to be public servants. Instead, they have set themselves up as some kind of privileged royal class with phenomenal perks and pay increases. They are beholden to the corporate greedheads and wealthy elitists who put them in office, and they lack any respect for their office or the integrity of the office they hold. -RKO-

Answer 8

Ok, let's start with the current President, there's someone who should respect the office but doesn't

Answer 9

How do you respect people who are suppose to think of the best interest of the people they lead and instead they twist and turn and deceive and abuse their power for their own interests.
AND while human lives are being forced to endure.

LEts look at the facts, and see if this administration is deservign of respect.

BUSH sidestepping a real deployment in Vietnam because he lacked the patriotism to get into harms way for his coutntry.
A leader should lead by example shouldnt he?
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#vietnam

Bush administration NOT taking all necessary action to protect this country against the biggest terrorist -- when offfered up by Sudan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUZDG84Fae4&mode=related&search=

Administration appointees denying recieving information from previous administration to be able to pass the buck and not accept responsibility for their action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76X0Yh0jUe4&mode=related&search=

NEED me to go on?

Then theres all the illegalities being discovered right now.
For anyone to think this administration deserves any amount of respect, would only be brought on by a person with as much scruples as this administration

Answer 10

You are right!

They should!

But they don't!

And I think the reason is that since the "Man" is the Figurehead of the Office - if they can't or don't respect the "Man" - then they can't or don't respect the Office!

Evidently this is why so many Americans disrespect Bush as well as the Office of the Presidency!

Respect has to be deserved - and if the Man does not or can not deserve it - he will not be respected. -

Lo Siento!