Maybe we should stop insulting the presidents (current and elect)...

Now, I've done my fair share of Bush-bashing. More of a joke then anything...and I can understand why people would want to bash Obama...change of this magnitude does not happen without resistance...but I mean...

To go on a bit of a tangent, I'm a Canadian. What do I care about American politics? Simple. I'm rational, realistic...and Canadian politics are about as boring as well, Canada. Not to mention the whole 51st state thing, which is an exaggeration...but not by much. So in a way, I'm an outsider looking on the inside...I never really signed onto Clutch to talk politics, it just happened after I looked through the section. People have good thoughts here, valuable things to add and I am easily swayed into (sometimes pointless) arguments. But I enjoy them, since people here do put some thought into their posts.

Now going back to the main point, as an outsider looking in, I'm really saddened a bit by all of the ad hominum attacks on the president and the president-elect. Yes, I'll admit that this has touched me a bit more since Obama was elected; I like the guy, what can I say. But Bush too...no matter how incompetent some of us think he may be, he still is the president whether we like it or not and there is some respect due to his office.

All this crap about Obama smoking weed and Bush being a cokehead...it's not leading anywhere. You'll bait people and people will get pissed, but to what end? I'm not expecting this to happen, but it'd be nice if we all realized that the president's office is above and beyond whoever is holding the title and that anyways, respect is due to the man (and maybe in the future, woman) who climbed his way to the top, empowered by the votes of a great American nation...whether or not you like the decisions the man undertakes, you should never stoop down to mockery and mud-slinging of the highest office in the land in your attempts to argue against these changes.

 

does he really snort that loud?

 

My guy? lol...in Canada, my guy is Stephen HARP-HARP-HARPER. Btw, we hunted the caribou to extinctionx100, so please stop with the references moe. it's not funny anymore...we still can't figure out who's supposed to run Santa's sleigh

This isn't a truce either. I can understand it if people are attacking the presidents out of humor...but some people are taking it a bit too far. Like, "throwing shoes at the president" far, with serious malicious intent behind it. It's a suggestion and it probably won't be taken, but man...I realize liberals took it far when they piled on Bush and they still do (I still do)...but if you're gonna take that as an excuse to pile on Obama for another four years, at least make it have a point; "Terrorist Obama" and "Obama on weed", I mean really, country first? I'm not even American and I'm starting to feel like the attacks (on both Bush and Obama) are really heading down somewhere nasty, to the point where I'd feel uncomfortable, even as a foreigner or a 51st statesman, whatever you want to consider it...to making jokes at the president's expense.