SPECIAL EDITION: Remember when President Bush THOUGHT he was being disrespected by a reporter?
June 16, 2012

 
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SPECIAL EDITION:

Just a quick note while it’s still fresh.

On Friday in the presidential Rose Garden, President Obama was interrupted by a young “reporter” from the Rightwing blog, The Daily Caller:

Not only did he interrupt the President while he was speaking, but then argued with him on his comment afterwards. The president handled the situation with more grace & class than I might have in that situation, but it reminded me of another event…

In June of 2008… almost four years to the day… President Bush was making a similar announcement in the very same Rose Garden. Clearly aware of how unpopular he was, President Bush thought that he was being disrespected by a reporter that didn’t even bother to remove his sunglasses when asking him a question… unaware that the reporter was legally blind:
 

Bush mistakenly believes he’s being disrespected by reporter in shades (6/2008)

Compare that to the punk that challenged President Obama today:

Disrespectful reporter in shades (2012)
(click to enlarge)

It’s one thing to THINK you’re being “disrespected”, but it’s quite another when they are ACTUALLY disrespecting the president and think nothing of it.

No word from Congressman Joe Wilson on whether such blatant disrespect should be considered the new normal.
 

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June 16, 2012 · Admin Mugsy · 2 Comments - Add
Posted in: Election, General, Politics, Rants

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  1. Grant in Texas - June 16, 2012

    I’ve lived under 13 presidents (being born in FDR’s second administration) and never have I seen a president so disrespected at public special events from the halls of Congress to the Rose Garden.  There has been a continual vendetta of hate pitched against President Obama from the racist right-wingers who portray him as unworthy of his office, who, from the birthers on, suggest that Obama is an illegitimate “other”.  What previous president was ever forced to show his birth certificate?  Not only is their gross disrespect for Obama but also his appointed black attorney general who is being charged with contempt of Congress by Republicans like Rep. Darrell Issa (even though Eric Holder has answered more questions from Congressmen than did former AG Alberto Gonzales).   Black Republican toady Ron Christie was upset on MSNBC tonight saying supporters of Obama are only playing the “race card” and he tried to present a false equivalency of a “reporter” throwing shoes at George W. Bush in Iraq.  But that was also an IRAQI reporter and with Bush bombing Iraq back to the stone age, destroying much infrastructure of that nation and costing tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives, Bush can be glad it was only shoes coming at him.

  2. fastfeat - June 16, 2012

    Holy crap, I’d forgotten about that shrub flub; there were sooo many.I thought Obama handled the douchebag yesterday with too much grace, but that’s just me. I wonder how the ‘Wingers are describing the incident?

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