I Cannot Believe Cantor Interrupted President Obama THREE TIMES During The Meeting.

[KittyWampus]

If my understanding is correct, the PRESIDENT was trying to wrap up the meeting and Cantor interrupted the PRESIDENT three times.

In any business meeting, you do not interrupt the President/executive who runs the meeting. Actually, whoever speaks must be recognized by the chair first and be given the right to be heard.

Now I don't know if meetings with the President go according to Robert's Rules of Order. But I'm pretty sure there is set decorum that you do not interrupt the President unless it's to say "Sir, the room is on fire".

The level of disrespect is on par with the Republican idiot Joe Wilson who yelled out "You lie" during Obama's State of the Union address.

No matter how much you may dislike the human personality inhabiting the Office of President of the United States, that Office is to be respected.

Cantor is a slug.

[Drale]

1. Cantor doesn't know his place

He needs some time in the naughty chair, or a prison cell either one is good with me.

[indepat]

40. Cantor's proper place would be the sewer

:patriot:

[DearAbby]

2. Amen....n/t

[RagAss]

3. It's simple. Obama is cool and Cantor is....

a sweaty, little, desperate puppet.

[RandySF]

4. I can.

He's a prick. He's trying to be another Tom Delay.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I can. He's a clueless, arrogant poindexter

who probably spent his adolescence getting daily wedgies and now he's compensating for his pathetic dorkiness by being a rude dick.

[babylonsister]

6. Rec'd and agreed. nt

[Mz Pip]

7. If O'Reilly can do it

so can Cantor. Both are arrogant pricks and think they are above having to give due respect to the POTUS regardless of politcal party.

I doubt Bush would ever have had to put up with the kind of crap that Obama faces on a daily basis. The GOP is filled with low life bigots who think they are entitled to behave like douches just because they have an R after their names. Democrats never did this to Bush. Ever. No matter how much they may have disagreed with his policies, they didn't disrespect the office.

Scum is an insult to scum. They are beneath scum.

[spanone]

8. they have no respect for President Obama. none.

[Mz Pip]

12. Then they need to learn

respect for the office. POTUS deserves respect. Bush would never have tolerated this behavior and I'm glad Obama finally pushed back.

[October]

15. That's unfortunately so true of most republicans. It's disgusting. /nt

[bdamomma]

45. agreed

O'Connell just wants Obama out as a one term President anyway.

[jimmyflint]

9. That guy is such a condescending snotty little brat.

A total elitist shitwad, I bet that turd even talks down to himself in the mirror.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Hell you do not disrespect a FORMER president by

interrupting...

There is a certain level of rules that apply here, as respect to the OFFICE,

But this is a DEMOCRAT who happens to be a (sorry for the word, but that is what they think) a negro.

And he really does not know his place.

Yep, some of the things I have heard from local republicans... and this spreads up.

[Beartracks]

43. A friend of mine attended a town meeting recently.

Not my town, but a small town in the reddest state in the union. Being a Federal employee, he was only attending as a subject matter expert to answer any questions on a specific issue before the council. And then the public had an opportunity to ask questions. Apparently thinking they had a visitor from Washington D.C. (they didn't), they proceeded to ask my friend all sorts of questions about totally unrelated matters. And then one of the questions went something like: "Why do we have a black man as president?"

:wow:

It's too bad we got interrupted in our conversation, because I really want to know how he responded to that whopper. But he did tell me enough to know that, apparently, the question as asked in the context of that town meeting was not considered "out of line." I just hope some citizens at least stared at the floor and shook their heads in shame at the bigots in their midst.

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[TheWraith]

11. Unfortunately, I can, because Eric Cantor is a walking human sphincter.

These days, nothing these stupid fucking oxygen thieves in the Republican Party does really surprises me, I'm sad to say.

[Angry Dragon]

13. Cantor needs to resign for the simple fact he has a huge

conflict of interest
If the country defaults he stands to make a huge amount of money
With his actions it could be construed as traitorous acts

[Whisp]

25. how can he make money from a default?

I don't know anything much about him except he makes my skin crawl.

Is/was he a banker or wall street guy?

[Angry Dragon]

28. He owns some bond funds that the purpose of the bond

fund is that they play the short......... they bet against the government
so as the bonds become worth less he makes money
so if the government defaults the bonds become worth a lot less and
he makes lots of money

[Whisp]

29. ok, thanks for explaining that

but shouldnt this be illegal or something? Pugs probably changed that law too.

[Angry Dragon]

30. Post #22 below explains it a lot better

[bdamomma]

46. too bad he wasn't involved in some kind of scandal.

then we could have one less jerk in the House, instead Anthony Weiner is gone.

[Dawson Leery]

14. Respect only is given to Republican Presidents.

[gateley]

19. Or White ones. nt

[Kind of Blue]

32. Thank you! You are correct M'am. n/t

[bdamomma]

47. for sure, just imagine what the election is going to be like next year.

ID cards for voting, signature???? is it America anymore.

[malaise]

16. Cantor's problem is he has no respect for Obama

He will learn the hard way

[Major Hogwash]

31. Cantor has no respect for the office of the President of the United States!!

I remember early on when I was in basic training in the Army, one of our Drill Sergeants told us, "you may not respect me, but you must respect the rank I hold, and follow my orders as if your own mother was wearing these stripes."

So, we did.
We always followed the orders he gave to us.

On a side note, from that day on, we referred to that Drill Sergeant as "Mother" every time we talked about him behind his back to each other.

Hahahahaha!!!!

He was a pretty good guy actually.

[originalpckelly]

17. Honestly, I cannot think of a Republican I despise more than Rep. Cantor.

He's just so vile and nasty.

[Ragnarok]

18. As we often say...

"If you can't respect the man, you must at least respect the uniform."

[LiberalFighter]

20. Obama needs to put Cantor in his place.

[gateley]

21. Cantor has been sooo disrespectful of Obama since day one --

he has the attitude that he's smarter than Obama. Can you imagine? And that he's superior. He's insufferable and really needs to be slapped down to size.

WHY aren't we pursuing the conflict of interest issue -- didn't that have any legs??

[Qutzupalotl]

22. He's negotiating in bad faith. See link:

Cantor could rake in windfall if debt ceiling isn’t raised

Economists have said that failing to raise the debt ceiling could be catastrophic for the U.S. economy, but at least one lawmaker stands to gain financially if the country defaults on its debts.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-VA) latest financial disclosure statement indicates that he owns up to $15,000 of ProShares Trust Ultrashort 20+ Year Treasury EFT, a fund that will likely skyrocket as U.S. debt becomes less desirable.

"If the debt ceiling isn’t raised, investors would start fleeing U.S. Treasuries," Motley Fool's Matt Koppenheffer told Salon. "Yields would rise, prices would fall, and the Proshares ETF should do very well. It would spike."

"Cantor's involvement in the fund and negotiations is not ideal," he added. "I don’t think someone negotiating the debt ceiling should be invested in this kind of an ultra-short... It looks pretty bad."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1432164
More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/30/cantor-could-rake-in-windfall-if-debt-ceiling-isnt-raised

[Glimmer of Hope]

38. Also - Why is he invested in such a risky ETF?

I understand holding these long term is not wise. This shows he has no place at the negotiation table.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

23. Did Cantor call him "boy"?

Just askin. Because it seems like that's about all he hasn't done.

[OHdem10]

24. C antor may just be hanging himself. It sounds as if he thinks

he runs the show, stepping all over Boehner. Karma
has had a way of leveling things out recently.

[Tatiana]

26. That's why it boggles my mind how Obama tries to negotiate with those "hostage takers."

They don't see Obama as POTUS... they see him as the black boy that conned his way into their exclusive club.

They will never respect or deal fairly with this President. So I don't get why he bends over backwards to accommodate these disrespectful pieces of $hit. Tell them to raise the debt ceiling. End of story. Or they get blamed for the ensuing disaster.

You don't even jokingly HINT that our social programs such as Medicare or Social Security are potential bargaining chips.

Wall Street will not let the Republicans plunge us into default. They want their money, conservative, teabagging agendas be damned.

It is past time for the President to turn his ire towards the true enemies... the Republicans. I hope he continues in this fashion.

[deacon]

35. Because a vital part of all this is he must appear that he is at trying to be inclusive. If not,

He feeds them and the press with opportunities to rip on him. Also, the general voted for some type of cooperation. Obviously, the GOP doesn't give a damn, but it's too risky for him to play it another way. If the independents weren't so damn fickle things could be different.

[Major Hogwash]

27. Cantor is a mental midget. He should have to sit at the small table by himself next time.

Like the kids at a family reunion.
I'm sure he is used to it.

[Kind of Blue]

33. I can. He's been itching to do it and

our president expected it. With Obama Derangement Syndrome and IOKIYAR, you got to expect the unexpected. He probably was holding back the last time he stormed out and thought he was being agreeable this time.
KnR!

[deacon]

34. Cantor is a foot stomping ignorant little boy. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

36. I guess some Presidents just know how to demand respect ... :sarcasm:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1353403&mesg_id=1353583

[sarge43]

37. What's not to believe?

1. He's a member of a party which says gov't is the enemy and should be drown in a bathtub.

2. Gov't personified headed him his head while taking the table.

Cantor's frustration level must have been in the stratosphere. Surprised he didn't take a swing at President Obama. However, like most Repubs, he's probably a sniveling poltroon.

[barbtries]

39. the republicans

have consistently treated this president with contempt - i don't know if there has ever been a president so openly disrespected. history buffs weigh in?

[rainbow4321]

41. He should have been escorted OUT of the meeting

Either by Secret Service or WH security...they should have walked up to his chair, one person on each side and made it clear: You are leaving this room.

He reminds me of some ignorant people who I have worked with...I told one woman "the LOUDER you talk, the LESS I hear". She tried to excuse her tone/loudness by saying the room we were in was small and it made her voice sound loud. Uh-huh.

Kind of like the saying the people who feel a need to talk loud, usually have the least worthy to say.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. Sounds like the criticism of my piano playing in a room full of hard surfaces.

Somebody came up to me and said I was playing too loud. I told them I was not playing too loud, the room had no absorbent carpet, drapes or other surfaces, and everything bounced around like a tile bathroom.

:banghead:

[Fire1]

42. Your subject heading is hilarious. n/t

[bdamomma]

44. so maybe that is why President Obama left

on a radio show I was listening to (probably hosted by a repig) he said how Pres. Obama got up and left abruptly and said see you tomrrow, saying how childish that was.

I would get up to if I had to deal with immaturity of the repigs!!

[Cleita]

48. I can't believe the amount of disrespect these

Congressmen and Senators have shown to this President. I can only believe it's because he's African American. No disrespect like this has been shown to any white President regardless of what party they were in the past.

[MilesColtrane]

49. "Cantor is a slug."

I would have gone with "weaselly, little shit bag", but slug works too.

[Scottybeamer70]

50. slug is much too nice for him.......

Can you imagine Cantor saying that to LBJ?