The GOP's Ongoing Lack of Respect

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jesse-jackson-jr/the-gops-ongoing-lack-of-_b_1063942.html

Posted: 10/28/11 12:47 PM ET

People all over America recognize that the creation of jobs is the top issue facing our nation. But when President Obama requested to address a joint session of Congress on the issue, unlike any president in memory, he was told he must come back the next day.

During an address to both Houses, a Republican Member of Congress interrupts the president's speech and shouts out, "You lie." No one can recall such an act of disrespect to a sitting president.

In response to a smear campaign during the fall of 2008 alleging that he was not born in the United States, then-Senator Barack Obama proclaims that he was born in Hawaii. For months, many Republican elected officials give evasive and ambiguous answers when asked if they believe the president was born in the United States. When the GOP presidential candidate, who at that time was leading in the polls, directly challenges whether the president was born in America, President Obama releases all records of his birth. No American president had ever been compelled to do so.

Barack Obama is the first president to be asked to produce his birth certificate. He may be the first president to have ever been told to wait another day to address a joint session of Congress. And he certainly is the first president to be interrupted by a shout calling him a liar during a speech to our nation's Congress.

[jaxx]

1. Excellent article.

K&R

[dtexdem]

2. Screw respect -- what about their lack of sanity?

that is all

[valerief]

3. The president gets more respect than the 99%. I'm more concerned about the latter. nt

[unblock]

4. completely coincidentally, he's also the first black president.

but i'm sure that has absolutely NOTHING whatsoever to do with it.


:sarcasm: