07-29-2010, 07:20 PM
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Keeneland
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 10,072
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Originally Posted by miraja2
Most people probably won't agree with this, but I don't think anybody deserves any extra respect just because they're the president. I don't see how hoping that Bush or Obama choke on a pretzel is any worse than hoping that anybody else chokes on a pretzel. The whole "respect the office" thing seems kind of "un-American" to me. They aren't freaking royalty. The president works for us.
I don't like Nascar1966's statement, but not because it was about the president. If he had said it about the Secretary of State, or the White House janitor, or the previous president, or Lebron James.....same deal.
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wow common ground wit u.
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