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Earlier today, I read something that someone had posted expressing their concern about the total lack of respect shown to Barack Obama. They assumed that the disrespect is because he's black and anyone who criticizes him is a racist. I'm paraphrasing the comment, but y'all get the gist.

Someone else has read that same comment and replied that the disrespect and lack of confidence in him isn't because he's black (actually & factually, he's a mulatto), but because he's inept.

Anyway, I kept thinking about the disrespect shown by Democrats to former Pres George W Bush, Obama's predecessor. Many took great pleasure in calling him all sorts of names. Disrespect was shown when he was depicted as a monkey and that led to a lot of people calling him a "chimp". That disrespect is evident on a website, Democratic Underground.

Now then, I was no great fan of George W. Bush, but I much preferred him to the other choices which were available at that time and I much prefer him to the man sitting in the office now.

Here's a shortened listing of what they are calling "nick names" for the former president. The full list can be found on the Democratic Underground.

Baby Bush, Bogus Potus, Boy George, Campaigner in Chief, Captain Cowboy, Cheney's Sock Puppet, Chimp in Chief, Commander-in-Thief, Curious George, Dubya, Dumbya, El Busho, El Shrubbo, Fearful Leader, Flubya, George The 2nd, Georgie, Gutless Wonder, Idiot-in-chief, Junior, King George, Miserable Failure, Moron-in-Chief, Not My President, Oaf Of Office, President Bobblehead, Shrub, Shrubbo, Shrubya, Thief in Chief, Too Stupid to be President, Unelected Moron, Village Idiot, Witless Wonder...

So, for those griping about the lack of respect shown to Obama, please ask yourself, did you use any of Bush's nicknames? Were you one of those same liberals who now seem to have forgotten how the last president was treated and now you are offended because it's a Democrat president?

Before you call others racist because they are critical of Mr. Obama, take a long hard look at the record of disrespect for the office set by liberals for eight years, when you tolerated all of sorts of vitriol against a sitting president. I guess it comes to prove the old adage; we do reap what we have sown, don't we.