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President vs. Mr.

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This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.
That started with president Bush.

Why didn't it bother you then?
 
Reminds me of this;

 
Well, that's certainly a good video. I would say it's a bit different because military refer to everyone as ma'am and sir. More of a cultural thing than a slight.
 
That started with president Bush.

Why didn't it bother you then?

It's true Bush was called a lot of things....but "Mr. Bush"?

If GWBush was called Mr. Bush in lieu of President Bush...wouldn't that be a subtle way of denying the legitimacy of his presidency?

I can understand why GWBush's presidency might be called into question because of the Florida vote count and the SCOTUS unconstitutionally deciding the outcome of a national election ......but I don't understand how or why Obama's presidency isn't legitimate.

Birthers.
 
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This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/173743-only-property-owners-should-vote-29.html#post1062359591

As for the aristocracy you mention...I would agree. I'm against another Bush running or another Clinton, or Reagan, or Obama. That's more of an influence thing than it is a money thing I would say.

Doesn't appear that you are that offended by it all.
 
It's true Bush was called a lot of things....but "Mr. Bush"?

If GWBush was called Mr. Bush in lieu of President Bush...wouldn't that be a subtle way of denying the legitimacy of his presidency?

I can understand why GWBush's presidency might be called into question because of the Florida vote count and the SCOTUS unconstitutionally deciding the outcome of a national election ......but I don't understand how or why Obama's presidency isn't legitimate.

Birthers.

I haven't paid much attention, but the leftist media started calling president Bush, Mr. Bush. Yes, I think they were trying to delegitimize his presidency. I'm pretty sure today, it's the lefties saing Mr. as well, but i don't listen to the news or talk radio as much as I used to. I'm pretty sure the right pundits still say "president." Maybe the left is showing their racist colors? They never did that with president Clinton. I don't think recently I ever heard any reporter or journalist say "Mr. Clinton, even in recent years.
 
Reminds me of this;



I'm so glad you posted this--there may be some folks who haven't seen it and need to understand, at least in part, why so many have contempt for Boxer. Thank you.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.


I completely agree. He should be called The Manchurian Moonbat.
 
I'm so glad you posted this--there may be some folks who haven't seen it and need to understand, at least in part, why so many have
contempt for Boxer
. Thank you.
Not me.
It's a comfort thing.
Jockeys are more confining.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.

The self-absorbed Jerk-in-Chief is not deserving of my respect mentally, verbally or written.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.
I don't suppose it's a play on the reverse snobbery employed by surgeons, with respect to their traditionally perceived clinical status?

No, probably not.
 
This all assumes that you view the term "president" as something deserving respect. To me presidents are merely political scumbags that have more power than the rest of the political scumbags.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that.

You are imagining things. Presidents were always called "Mr."


Dallas, Nov. 22--President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today.

He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.

Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was riding in the third car behind Mr. Kennedy's, was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States 99 minutes after Mr. Kennedy's death

Mr. Johnson is 55 years old; Mr. Kennedy was 46.

(http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1122.html)

I sincerely doubt that the New York Times meant to slight him, or LBJ, under the circumstances.
 
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Here's the NYT on Presidents Roosevelt (FD) and Truman:

Washington, April 12 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War President of the United States and the only Chief Executive in history who was chosen for more than two terms, died suddenly and unexpectedly at 4:35 P. M. today at Warm Springs, Ga., and the White House announced his death at 5:48 o'clock. He was 63.

The President, stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage, passed from unconsciousness to death on the eighty-third day of his fourth term and in an hour of high-triumph. The armies and fleets under his direction as Commander in Chief were at the gates of Berlin and the shores of Japan's home islands as Mr. Roosevelt died, and the cause he represented and led was nearing the conclusive phase of success.

Less than two hours after the official announcement, Harry S. Truman of Missouri, the Vice President, took the oath as the thirty-second President. The oath was administered by the Chief Justice of the United States, Harian F. Stone, in a one-minute ceremony at the White House. Mr. Truman immediately let it be known that Mr. Roosevelt's Cabinet is remaining in office at his request, and that he had authorized Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. to proceed with plans for the United Nations Conference on international organization at San Francisco, scheduled to begin April 25. A report was circulated that he leans somewhat to the idea of a coalition Cabinet, but this is unsubstantiated.

President Roosevelt is Dead; Truman to Continue Policies
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.

It happened all the time. Bush was always referred to by the media as Mr.Bush. Most pols call him Pres.Obama.
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.

I don't call him President because he does not deserve the respect that title deserves. Just because someone was voted into that office does not mean that they automatically deserve the respect of the office imo. They have to prove they deserve that respect.

I do admit however that my feelings have only changed since Obama was elected. But it wasn't because he was elected. I have grown more and more distrustful and disgusted with our politicians, as the years that I have actually been paying attention to it have come along. I've got a strong feeling that I won't ever be calling ANYONE "President" anymore.

I liken it to a "King" of old. Anyone can be a King. But do they deserve respect that the title confers? Or are they despotic or inept or anything but what the title confers on what a King should be?
 
This is something that has been bothering me for a while. I keep hearing people refer to Obama as Mr. Obama instead of President Obama. I don't know why it bothers me, but it does. I don't remember other presidents being slighted like that. President is a title, an instantaneous job description. Mr. is a general characterization of ones gender. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but not calling him President preceding his name is offensive.

Both forms are wrong, the correct form for a socialist leader is "premier". Dumbass, Worthless ****ing piece of ****, **** for brains, **** tard....and many more are appropriate for Muhammad Al Obama.
 
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