An Honor That Bush Is Unlikely to Embrace - Page 17

independent_thinker2002 · 07-10-08, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by galenrox

And that's what I said, it's not an issue of respecting the man, it's an issue of respecting the office. I think Bill Clinton is a scumbag piece of ****, but if it came up to vote to name our garbage dump after him I'd vote against it enthusiastically, because he was the President of the United States. You can't say it's an issue of Bush's behavior, because the respect we're talking about isn't his to squander, it belongs to the office.

Then the office's respect cannot be diminished once he leaves office. He will be an ex-President.

jallman · 07-10-08, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Then the office's respect cannot be diminished once he leaves office. He will be an ex-President.

Then why do we continue to call him Mr. President?

You are so rabid to show disrespect for the man that you can't even comprehend the disrespect you show the office and the nation.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-10-08, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jallman

Then why do we continue to call him Mr. President?

You are so rabid to show disrespect for the man that you can't even comprehend the disrespect you show the office and the nation.

Can Bill Clinton still veto bills?

jallman · 07-10-08, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Can Bill Clinton still veto bills?

Here you illustrate your unfathomable desire to diminish the office. Again.

Doc Howl · 07-10-08, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jallman

I can't fathom what creates that kind of animosity toward a man we CHOSE as a PEOPLE to put into office. I think Clinton was a degenerate slimeball but I honor his legacy and my fellow citizens by respecting the choice that was made.

To hell with Clinton, too. The jackass appointed Janet Reno, and that alone is reason to hate his guts.

jfuh · 07-10-08, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc Howl

To hell with Clinton, too. The jackass appointed Janet Reno, and that alone is reason to hate his guts.

Janet Reno was a ****ing moronic bitch.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-10-08, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jallman

Here you illustrate your unfathomable desire to diminish the office. Again.

Howso?

jallman · 07-10-08, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Howso?

Because its not about whether he still weilds the power or not. It's about the fact that for a time he was America's choice...he was saddled with the most important job in the entire world because America's people gave an elected decree to give it to him.

All of the Presidents are still referred to as President ________ for the rest of their lives.

But I've said, you and I do not think on the same wave length. It becomes a pointless exercise after a while.

independent_thinker2002 · 07-10-08, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jallman

Because its not about whether he still weilds the power or not. It's about the fact that for a time he was America's choice...he was saddled with the most important job in the entire world because America's people gave an elected decree to give it to him.

All of the Presidents are still referred to as President ________ for the rest of their lives.

But I've said, you and I do not think on the same wave length. It becomes a pointless exercise after a while.

Yes, this is true. I would characterize people's outrage over this as poltical correctness though. I realize that I am in the minority on this. I am just not outraged about it because I think the office is immune to such a trivial attack.

galenrox · 07-11-08, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Then the office's respect cannot be diminished once he leaves office. He will be an ex-President.

He will always be a President of the United States of America, just like everyone else who has ever held the office. Ultimately from the beginning of 2001 till the beginning of 2009 George W. Bush was the President of the United States of America, and that does not end at the end of his final term.