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lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 09:26 PM Mar 2014

Dear Mr. President,

On the in case that you were to visit DU, I would like for you to know that no matter what the blank the polls say, lonestarnot still loves you! You are my favorite President eva! Love you! lonestarnot

P.S. I never use the word blank here, ask my friends.

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Dear Mr. President, (Original Post) lonestarnot Mar 2014 OP
He's the goddamn President of the United States, not a pop star. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #1
That is fucking right! lonestarnot Mar 2014 #2
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #3
Yes. Yes I do. Snort. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #7
That's why he's worthy of more respect. nt PhilSays Mar 2014 #4
You're absolutely right. And showing him respect is treating him like an elected official Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #6
So you think my post is treating Mr. President like a mindless teenage heart throb. Yeah like I lonestarnot Mar 2014 #10
Yes, your love letter is treating the President of the United States like a member of One Direction. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #12
And you have the right to your opinion which I also have the right to ignore as I have to be civil. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #16
So you think it is disrespectful of the office treestar Mar 2014 #13
I think it's disturbing to tell a sitting President he's your "favorite" and that you love him. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #17
Why is that disturbing? treestar Mar 2014 #20
"It is disturbing to have positive thoughts about anything?" Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #27
Apparently you find it disturbing that anyone would treestar Mar 2014 #35
As I've already state, it is the extent of the admiration, not that someone likes the President. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #39
Oh baloney. treestar Mar 2014 #44
Gravitycollapse has previously copped to being young and immature functioning_cog Mar 2014 #29
Yes, I was a freshman in college when I helped elect Obama to his first term... Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #31
You have a lot to learn and it won't come easily I assume. lumpy Mar 2014 #32
Of course, the easy dismissal is to say I " have a lot to learn." Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #33
Whoah treestar Mar 2014 #34
Are you saying everything Obama has failed to accomplish... Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #38
So you think it is disrespectful of the office treestar Mar 2014 #14
You did that very civilly twice. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #18
Something went wrong the first time treestar Mar 2014 #21
I know. DU had a brain fart for a moment. I experienced the same issue a few minutes ago. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #24
I think it is inappropriate for an informed citizen to so strongly admire their political leaders. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #19
Really? treestar Mar 2014 #22
Is that how you read my post? That's the problem. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #25
What extent? treestar Mar 2014 #36
Repeating the same bullshit strawman doesn't make it true. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #41
What is the straw man? treestar Mar 2014 #43
Nope still ignoring. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #23
The reality of a Presidential administration is NEVER as endearing as fantasy. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #26
Funny. I have never considered the reality of holding the office of President of the United States lonestarnot Mar 2014 #28
He's polling at 86% among Liberals. JaneyVee Mar 2014 #5
WTH is with that? lonestarnot Mar 2014 #8
No see 85% of them are lying to the pollsters treestar Mar 2014 #15
Alrighty Then... WillyT Mar 2014 #9
Yes. And I love Pink too! lonestarnot Mar 2014 #11
I do believe that is your favorite smiley functioning_cog Mar 2014 #30
Are you talking to me? What smiley? lonestarnot Mar 2014 #37
I thought I was replying to WillyT functioning_cog Mar 2014 #40
I thought you might be talking to someone else. Soright bobalouie. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #42

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
6. You're absolutely right. And showing him respect is treating him like an elected official
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 09:37 PM
Mar 2014

Who answers to the demands of the public who elected him...

Rather than some sort of mindless teenage heart throb.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
10. So you think my post is treating Mr. President like a mindless teenage heart throb. Yeah like I
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:04 PM
Mar 2014

fucking said, I put that part on ignore. But be sure to tell everyone what you think.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
13. So you think it is disrespectful of the office
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:09 PM
Mar 2014

to state something along the lines of you are my favorite president and I love you? What terms are decorous to use for admiration or respect for the President?

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
17. I think it's disturbing to tell a sitting President he's your "favorite" and that you love him.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:12 PM
Mar 2014

Such statements are reflective of someone with an extreme lack of critical perspective.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
20. Why is that disturbing?
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:25 PM
Mar 2014

It is disturbing to have positive thoughts about anything? You think it disturbing for anyone to prefer one President over another, like those lists of who are the 10 greatest and who do you think was the best? That's "disturbing?"

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
27. "It is disturbing to have positive thoughts about anything?"
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:42 PM
Mar 2014

Is that what you're asking me? Do I think it's disturbing that anyone has positive thoughts about anything?

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
39. As I've already state, it is the extent of the admiration, not that someone likes the President.
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:17 AM
Mar 2014

The OP is a love letter. And that is highly inappropriate, and rather dangerous, to be so uncritical of the single most powerful person in the US government.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
44. Oh baloney.
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 08:58 AM
Mar 2014

The OP is not a "love letter." In today's culture, people saying they love things they like is very common. It is not "dangerous" to like the current or any President. One does not have to be a critical person. I can say I think Obama does a great job in the Presidency. You seem to have a standard that one has to look at the President as All Powerful and Dangerous.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
31. Yes, I was a freshman in college when I helped elect Obama to his first term...
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:05 PM
Mar 2014

Young and idealistic. Hopeful that the president elect would somehow live up to the grandiosity of his campaign. I'm just a little older now, incomparably more educated and possess a far firmer grasp on political reality.

If you want to call that "immature," then I don't know what "maturity" would look like to you.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
33. Of course, the easy dismissal is to say I " have a lot to learn."
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 11:37 PM
Mar 2014

Everyone has a lot to learn. Including yourself.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
38. Are you saying everything Obama has failed to accomplish...
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:14 AM
Mar 2014

Is because of the separation of powers?

Excepting my own statement in defense, my age is now irrelevant to this discussion (as it is technically a violation of TOS to harass me over it). Please do not bring it up again.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
14. So you think it is disrespectful of the office
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:11 PM
Mar 2014

to state something along the lines of you are my favorite president and I love you? What terms are proper to use for admiration or respect for the President? Or is it simply uncool to ever do so and one much always look for the negative and look for ways to feel like we are all being screwed?

I was watching Obama's speech on the minimum wage and someone in the crowd yells "I love you!" He will say in those situations, "I love you back." Is this a terrible, indecorous proceeding, not worthy of the office of the Presidency?

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
24. I know. DU had a brain fart for a moment. I experienced the same issue a few minutes ago.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:28 PM
Mar 2014

Cooking right along now though.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
19. I think it is inappropriate for an informed citizen to so strongly admire their political leaders.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:15 PM
Mar 2014

If you think I'm a killjoy it's because reality isn't so endearing as fantasy.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
25. Is that how you read my post? That's the problem.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:38 PM
Mar 2014

I find the extent of the admiration disturbing, its overabundance, not the fact that someone likes the President.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
36. What extent?
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:05 AM
Mar 2014

You think it's a terrible thing to find one president preferable to another? To like any current officeholder?

treestar

(82,383 posts)
43. What is the straw man?
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 08:56 AM
Mar 2014

There is none here. Some people are not negative about everything and some people like other people/things. Some people don't hate everyone else.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
23. Nope still ignoring.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:27 PM
Mar 2014

And yes sometime reality is just as endearing as fantasy. Sorry you've missed that though.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)
26. The reality of a Presidential administration is NEVER as endearing as fantasy.
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:41 PM
Mar 2014

That goes for every single one since the founding of this nation.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
28. Funny. I have never considered the reality of holding the office of President of the United States
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:50 PM
Mar 2014

as endearing or I would have run for office. Keep trying. I'm not biting.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
15. No see 85% of them are lying to the pollsters
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:12 PM
Mar 2014

They are very disappointed but don't want anyone but DU to know.

 

functioning_cog

(294 posts)
30. I do believe that is your favorite smiley
Wed Mar 12, 2014, 10:53 PM
Mar 2014

Does that mean there is much about life you don't understand?

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
37. Are you talking to me? What smiley?
Thu Mar 13, 2014, 12:08 AM
Mar 2014

Plenty of things in life I do not understand, so what are you on about?

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