Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Give the Man some Respect!
Anytime you turn on the radio, watch t.v., or get into any kind of political conversation, you usually always hear someone express their discuss or hatred with the current administration. I do understand that some people will always be displeased with whatever administration is in power, but I have never heard or have seen so many people with such disrespect for the President and other government officials as I have with the current administration. When are we going to get a president who brings back the class and demand for respect and results that so many people crave? When are we going to get a president who "brings back" the great name of the United States?
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As far as bringing back the "great name of the United States" I'm not so sure that's accurate. Even before the war I'm familiar that many countries viewed American's as arrogant, especially in the East.
I also believe it takes a bad administration to make the succeeding administration seem great.
Yes, the current administration has gotten a bad rap, but the republican's faults have definitely been prevalent in the news over the last few years. For example, the obvious, the war- which has lost a lot of support amongst the population. There's also the failure of Katrina response, the Tom DeLay scandal, the most recent Larry Craig scandal, the list goes on. The media has certainly stacked the odds against the republican party, but hey, that's their job right? This is not to say that the Democrat's are problem free, but they are not the party in power and so they don't get as much news coverage.
most of the people that are so against the war and the president's decisions now thought he was smart to declare war six years ago...
I think this is due to a lowering standard of morals in this country.
People disrespect one another, their families, and government officials because they believe that is their right. Freedom of speech has never been so foul. Shame on us!
Well to begin with I disproved the war from the beginning, but hey I wasn't even a teenager at that point. Now that I have grown I now see further evidence why it was a foul idea to begin with. How can disagreeing with a bad decision be foul when it was obviously wrong in the first place. If we don't accept our faults how can we ever improve our status. I believe Americans have accepted their faults and are going to try to improve the situation within the next election. Remember the President wasn't forced into his position he fought for it. He succeeded in landing the job now he has to bear with the ups and downs of the job. That is just the way the cookie crumbles. It's like a student arguing about how his honors or advanced class is harder than the ordinary class used to be. Go figure.
>most of the people that are so against the war and the president's decisions now thought he was smart to declare war six years ago...
I think the polls show this not to be true. Prior to the war about 43% of Americans opposed the war. Now that number is somewhere around 55-60%, which means that only about, at most, 17% thought it was smart and now oppose it.
>I think this is due to a lowering standard of morals in this country.
People disrespect one another, their families, and government officials because they believe that is their right. Freedom of speech has never been so foul.
Morals may or may not be lower, that's a discussion for a different post, but it is clear that disrespect, on a mass level, has always been apart of America and its public discourse. Up until the 1970s, it was 100% okay to say absolutely anything you wanted to about women, black people, Asians, Hispanics, etc. And people did say such things frequently. In the 1950s, a sitting Senator found it completely okay to accuse anybody he felt like, with no evidence, of being treasonous toward the country. If you go back and read historical accounts of any president in history, you'll find the same kind of discourse you see now about all of them, including George Washington. Our public discourse has always been this bad, the only real difference now is that every person hears the bad stuff more than they did in the past because of satellite, cable, the Internet, 24-hour news channels, etc. This bad stuff was always there, we just didn't hear about it as much.
I dont think there will ever be a president who satisfies the U.S. population. No matter what, americans will always be displeased with some matter of the government.
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