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Originally Posted by billethkid
while there is so much criticism of some of what is said about Obama and the disrespect, et al.
Help me understand what rationale some of the very same folks who plead for some respect of the man who happens to be POTUS.......just what would you categorize all the Bush bashing and retrospective negative commentary about Bush. I thought he was POTUS as well! Entitled to the same respect.
Please enlighten me what the difference could possibly be.
I usually never get an equitable answer to simple questions like this.
btk
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Usually never is a bit confusing, but I will try to give you an answer and you can decide if it's equitable. I heard the Bush bashing and I disagreed with the tone and the substance. I was not on this forum at that time so had no response that you would have seen. The bush bashing was mean spirited and disrespectful. However, I would argue, the Obama bashing is several steps further up the ladder to vicious and inciteful. Bush was characterized as unintelligent and inarticulate and taking us to war without due cause. Obama has been vilified as being evil, UnAmerican, a communist, and, as I said in the OP, a fxxxxxg nxxxxr. Can you not see a different level of vilification here? As I said, I find it scary that some unstable person, will try to do what in his/her mind is a favor to the world by destroying this anti-Christ. I never had that feeling about Ws safety because the rhetoric, in my eyes, was not inciting violence, but rather more on the lines of ridicule. Ridicule is not an appropriate way to express ones disagreement but it does not rise to the level of hateful and vengeful.