MLK day and the disrespect for the President

2seaoat wrote:YOU LIE...........attack after racial attack, as no president has been disrespected just because of his skin color.....oh some tried to argue that it was his policies, but please listen to the senator's ads from Alabama on attacking President Obama everyday......sorry I know why that plays in Alabama....the same place where in Mobile they drop off KKK literature in your front yard.....scrape the surface and we have not fulfilled MLK's dream.....we have a long way to go.

The most beautiful thing about all the hate and fear in America's older folks toward the President is that an entire generation grew up as children seeing a black man as President.....that in itself is the path to achieve MLK's dream that every child will be judged by their character and not their skin color.  Thank you MLK for your sacrifices and in a couple generations we can hope your dream will be achieved.

2seaoat wrote:I never voted for President Clinton, but I called him President Clinton.  I got really tired when folks called President Bush.....Bush, but there is something about how the racist relish the lack of respect when they call the Affordable Care Ace .....Obama Care, and never call him President Obama.  I never voted for the man, but he is my President, and my attitude of respect for Presidents was formed as a child when President Eisenhower was my president kindergarten through third grade.   Those are formative years.   A young person born when President Clinton served thinks presidents are a SNL skit.  Wrong in so many ways.

2seaoat wrote:YOU LIE...........attack after racial attack, as no president has been disrespected just because of his skin color.....oh some tried to argue that it was his policies, but please listen to the senator's ads from Alabama on attacking President Obama everyday......sorry I know why that plays in Alabama....the same place where in Mobile they drop off KKK literature in your front yard.....scrape the surface and we have not fulfilled MLK's dream.....we have a long way to go.

The most beautiful thing about all the hate and fear in America's older folks toward the President is that an entire generation grew up as children seeing a black man as President.....that in itself is the path to achieve MLK's dream that every child will be judged by their character and not their skin color.  Thank you MLK for your sacrifices and in a couple generations we can hope your dream will be achieved.

2seaoat wrote: ..., and my attitude of respect for Presidents was formed as a child when President Eisenhower was my president kindergarten through third grade.   Those are formative years.   A young person born when President Clinton served thinks presidents are a SNL skit.  Wrong in so many ways.

Markle wrote:

2seaoat wrote:YOU LIE...........attack after racial attack, as no president has been disrespected just because of his skin color.....oh some tried to argue that it was his policies, but please listen to the senator's ads from Alabama on attacking President Obama everyday......sorry I know why that plays in Alabama....the same place where in Mobile they drop off KKK literature in your front yard.....scrape the surface and we have not fulfilled MLK's dream.....we have a long way to go.

The most beautiful thing about all the hate and fear in America's older folks toward the President is that an entire generation grew up as children seeing a black man as President.....that in itself is the path to achieve MLK's dream that every child will be judged by their character and not their skin color.  Thank you MLK for your sacrifices and in a couple generations we can hope your dream will be achieved.

Further, an entire country will go forward having seen a black president's massive failure.

Do you think that will harm a black candidates chances in the future?

Wordslinger wrote:The same rabid, knuckle dragging White Christian fundamentalist tea-partiers who show at get-togethers with signs mocking Obama as a black cartoon character chomping down on watermelon, are the key to Trump's awesome political success.  They are now leading the republican party.

Considering those factors, perhaps we should begin to focus on the failure of the republican party to accomplish anything for America other than to harass, insult, and oppose the President since his inauguration.  At that time, in the throes of a near-economic depression, the ebola pandemic, and losing wars all over the MidEast, the republican leader of the senate set the tone for the next eight years to come:  He claimed, on TV that the number one priority for his republican party was to replace Obama.

Despite the insane efforts of a party bent on his political destruction -- and one which even opposed programs the republicans initiated,Obama improved the economy, tried to end our disastrous wars, got Iran to give-up it's nuclear weapons development, pushed the public's awareness of global warming, established the ACA, and numerous other victories.  

In summary: It wasn't Obama who failed.

gatorfan wrote:The little cartoons hardly represent the feelings of the majority of the population of this country. But cling to them if you must. LOL

SheWrites wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:The same rabid, knuckle dragging White Christian fundamentalist tea-partiers who show at get-togethers with signs mocking Obama as a black cartoon character chomping down on watermelon, are the key to Trump's awesome political success.  They are now leading the republican party.

Considering those factors, perhaps we should begin to focus on the failure of the republican party to accomplish anything for America other than to harass, insult, and oppose the President since his inauguration.  At that time, in the throes of a near-economic depression, the ebola pandemic, and losing wars all over the MidEast, the republican leader of the senate set the tone for the next eight years to come:  He claimed, on TV that the number one priority for his republican party was to replace Obama.

Despite the insane efforts of a party bent on his political destruction -- and one which even opposed programs the republicans initiated,Obama improved the economy, tried to end our disastrous wars, got Iran to give-up it's nuclear weapons development, pushed the public's awareness of global warming, established the ACA, and numerous other victories.  

In summary: It wasn't Obama who failed.

And Democrats never did anything such as this to a sitting Republican President? The blame goes to both sides when it comes to lack of respect.  They chart the course along with party backers on both sides.  It's politics over respect and unity of a country.

We the people must change the tone.