Respect President Bush

Not agreeing with the President doesn't make him evil.

June 13, 2007

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Ohio: Updating Neil Yong's lyrics for contemporary events.

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On National ID Cards: Discussing the evil national ID cards.

Our Cowboy President: You don't have to like the President's policies to respect his sense of moral responsiblity.

Poem: Bureaucratic Memorandum: Trying to make sense of the memorandum and corporate decision making process.

Poem: It's 2006: The future seems not to come for man.

Senator Paul Wellstone is Dead: Andrew is still shocked at the news of the death of man who was becoming one of the great Senators of the '00s.

The Blackout Blame Game: In continuing my series on blaming the right people, I try to look beyond the hype and mistakes of the media in covering the blackout.

Those Extra Twenty Hours: Brought to you by the same people who denied you national health care.

Undocumented Immigrants and Farms: Why the real solution to the illegal immigration is changing how we subsidize our farmers and not criminalizing or legalizing guest workers.

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Why Modern Politics are Ill: Commentary on the ills of politics, and the need for activism.

Why the Democratic Stimulus Package Works: The proposed tax cuts by Republicans fail to provide adquate stimulus for sectors of the economy that need it the most.

Respect President Bush

There are many in liberal circles who like to argue that President Bush is evil or attempting to somehow do in our country. They claim that the President is corrupted by special interests, and that he is not doing what he was elected to do. They be believe the president should be discredited in anyway possible, and ultimately be impeached.

Yet, that ignores the fact that not anybody can become President, and that he worked very hard to get himself elected and re-elected. You might not agree with his policy choices, but the majority of people felt that his leadership is what our country needed two separate times. He clearly is representing the values of many Americans, even if those Americans are different then you.

It is one thing to disagree with a man's political beliefs. It's another thing to attack him personally, with the most savage of attacks. President Bush is a man of amazing character and courage, and has many deeply held beliefs. They may differ from what you believe, but you should give him credit for all the courage and conviction that he has.

Imagine for a minute that President Bush was your party leader. You would agree with many of his decisions and his ideology. You would respect him. Shouldn't you do the same with people of the party? You have every right to campaign against a man you disagree with, and make your disagreements public. Yet, once the public has selected it's leadership, you should respect it and follow his or her leadership.

Sometime in the future, a Democrat will be elected president. Republicans will quickly term the new president as a daemon who is somehow promising to destroy our country. That's politics. Yet, there should be a respect for the President and the public's will regardless of ones own ideology or party identification.