For the past several months it seems that every time Obama is challenged for his proposals or remarks there is an immediate response about people being disrespectfull. Granted the comment on the senate floor about how Obama was a liar was not appropriate to say the least. Does anyone else see a double standard? Not long ago Obama called a police officer a racist without even knowing the details of the situation. Today or yesterday rather Obama called someone a jacka@& for interupting some acceptance speech during a recent awards show. So who is really being disrespectfull there?
I didn't think Obama called anyone racist - didn't he just call him stupid? It's a small but critical distinction. And Kanye West was being a jackass, but God forbid the President of the United States decides to form personal opinions about recent events and then chooses to express them in a private conversation. It's the rumours about Obama's birth, religion etc that gets called disrespectful. You can argue about the mans politics all you want, it's just that it doesn't always stop at politics.
Kanye West deserves everything he's been called and more. He interrupted the acceptance speech of a 19-year-old small-town girl (who has, as far as I can tell, doesn't have a mean bone in her body) to say that Beyonce deserved the award more than she did. I hadn't heard that Obama made an off-the-record comment about Kanye that got leaked to Twitter, but you know what? I agree with Barack on this one. It's not like he called a press conference about it, and the fact of the matter is, he was right. The only disrespect I'm seeing is that leveled at Obama. It's one thing to criticize his position, but I honestly haven't gone a week since he took office without hearing someone allude to assassination. And accusing him of falsifying his birth certificate (because he's a closet Muslim extremist from Africa, or something like that)? It's unprecedented, it's offensive, and it's ridiculous.
Obama's the most forward thinking President that the US has had in a long time. To be honest, he could call the Republican party a bunch of sissies while kicking Kanye West in the family jewels and it wouldn't make him any less respectable a president.
Plus it would be the most watched clip on Youtube forever, you could play it on loop "Sissies!" *whump* "OOOF!" "Sissies!" *whump* "OOOF!" "Sissies!" *whump* "OOOF!" Mitch
There is no such thing as civil political discourse in the United States anymore. It didn't die when Obama hit office. It has been dead for quite a while now. People can not sit down and talk calmly, without hyperbole or raising their voices anymore. Its as if someone declared the rule: The loudest voice wins regardless of the quality of your argument. When you have people marching in the streets (as is their right to do so) holding up signs declaring that the president of the United States is socialist, communist, fascist or equal to Adolf Hitler then you've already lost any credibility before the debate has even started. Obama did call the police officer in Massachussetts 'stupid' which was wrong. When he realized his mistake he did what so many politicians (and adults in general) choose not to or simply can not do; he apologized publicly and recanted his error. He then sought a means by which to try to quell the incident and all of its associated vitriol. Though it was largely symbolic (three men sitting down to share a beer and talk) it was an attempt to put to rest an issue charged with race, abuse of office and he said/she said. My favorite thing so far are the Tea Parties. Angry "fiscal conservatives" demanding that they "want their country back". As if a measure designed to give everyone access to decent, affordable health care is taking anything away from anyone. The best part is that the conservative meat puppets on cable news used to deride similar demonstrations during the George Wtf Bush administration as "unpatriotic", "subversive", "empowering the terrorists", "Whining", etc.now call those Tea Party demonstrators "patriotic" and "true americans". It would be funny if it weren't actually happening.
The best part about that whole affair is that they called themselves "teabaggers." I mean really, could you spend 30 seconds on Google before coming up with a name that you are proudly calling yourself in public?
He called Kanye West a j@ck** for itnerrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech. Not sure what you're complaining about? How is Obama disrespectful? Even Jimmy Carter called what Kanye did "completely uncalled for". Sorry if there are any Kanye fans here, but he's a total d-bag.
I think jimmy carter must have been smoking crack when he said everybody who is against obamas health care plans are just being racist. since when did calling somebody a liar become a racist offence? What next if you dont vote obama your a racist.
Did they actually call themselves teabaggers, or was that MSNBC's doing? You've all seen this clip, right? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383leN5mgsA"]YouTube - TeaBagging on MSNBC[/ame] edit: You'll notice that when he "quotes" Neil Cavuto talking about "teabaggers", it's actually "[teabaggers]," meaning that they inserted the word.
