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No other president has ever been so disrespected

face-down-asgard-up:

rabblevolunteer:

anedumacation:

thetart:

stfuconservatives:

siddharthasmama:

as Barack Obama. Not a single one. Someone I know has a photo up on his Facebook, saying, “This is the best Christmas gift (idea) ever. If I come across these, I’ll sell sheets of 5 for 25 cents.” It was a fucking roll of toilet paper with a picture of Barack Obamas’ presidential photo on each sheet. Seriously? You’re not supposed to defame images of the POTUS. It happens, yes, but putting it on a fucking roll of toilet paper? To wipe your ass after you shit? To put your shit, literally, on the face of the president? Tell me when that has happened to a white president. I’ll wait.

I’m actually going to disagree with this one, especially since it took me like 5 seconds to find this:

http://www.prankplace.com/shop/Product/Politics-Sucks/George-Bush-Toilet-Paper-4396.aspx

I really think in the grand scheme of “disrespecting the office” W got it way worse. Obama gets crap but all the stuff that isn’t outright racism (<— that statement there is key to this thought) is really banal, he barely has anything that you can even caricature that much. He’s got a very distinct pattern of speech but that’s about it. W on the other hand was portrayed as the most child-like simpleton or some bizarre texas oil-man firing his pistols into the air. In 15-20 years we’re still going to look back and laugh at Will Ferrell’s Bush and that caricature is really going to affect how he’s going to be remembered. Now I’m not saying that Bush deserves any greater respect but the way his legacy and presidency was warped by pop culture, toilet paper included, is worse than anything Obama has gotten or probably will ever get.

-Joe

Oh yeah, President Obama doesn’t have it all that bad if you discount everything racist. That makes allllllllllllllllllllllll kinds of sense. Did it occur to you for one hot second that as someone who feels perfectly justified in DISCOUNTING RACISM you have NO business weighing in on the kind of vitriol that is aimed at President Obama?

PROTIP: DON’T.

Whaaaaaaaat the fuck is going on?

Joe, are you for fucking real right now?

Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service. (x)

Barack Obama is less mocked in popular culture because he’s a less ridiculous figure. No one on SNL has been able to made a good caricature of him so far because a) SNL sucks right now and b) there’s less to make fun of. He, unlike George W. Bush, does not stumble over basic English. He is not funny.

Yes, Obama doesn’t get flak the way George Bush got flak, the way Bill Clinton got flak — he is not hated because of what he does.

He’s hated because of who he is.

He is hated and threatened and maligned every day, his family is slandered, his wife is disrespected — because he is black. because. he. is. black.

You’re right: history will regard Obama as a respectable figure, and Bush will go down in history as a joke. But that’s not what’s being disputed here. Its who gets more disrespect. And a few liberals poking fun at GW is simply not equivalent to thousands and thousands of death threats, so many that the Secret Service can’t handle the load.

I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse, if you just missed the point, or if you genuinely believe that the incredible amount of racism directed at our president is something that can be so cavalierly discounted.

Someone needs to read that ^

Everyone needs to read that.

Yeah, it’s a good post in response to my wrongness.

-Joe