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While I think your view of the president, his intentions and his qualifications is somewhat simplistic, I do agree with the overall sentiment of your question. I think some people just don't think when they speak. They may be discussing something amongst other adults who would understand the subtleties of sarcasm and exaggeration and be unaware that their children were listening and taking things for face value. Then, the children, in turn embellish what they heard for dramatic effect on their peers.

There are also, some very rude, uninformed parents out there that probably say those things and mean them.

While I agree that Bush has not been the worst president in American history, to call him one of the greatest is a bit premature. The establishment of "good Christian Values" in the White House will leave with him. Any establishment he made is temporary and the legacy will be short-lived and remembered differently based on who follows and how Iraq ultimately settles. The lengths Bush has gone to protect this country may or may not have overstepped some boundaries. I feel in a time of war that he may do that and be perfectly fine with it, however, once the war has ended, if the measures he put in place do not stand to reason or our Constitution it may all be for naught. The tax cuts helped more than just the middle class. Most everyone benefited from it, although those not used to a windfall probably didn't know what to do with it. I'm not as certain it "saved the economy" but it certainly did help pull us out of a recession. Many presidents have tried programs for the educational system...except put more emphasis on the basics. Bush's program gives a way of measuring, but when schools focus more on the test than the education of the children, there's a problem.

Hello so yeah this is a very good question. I think that the kid's parents are very er... open with their political views these days. The parents most likely don't like President Obama so they speak out about it and their kids over hear and the kids look down upon Obama as well as their parents. Just a learned habit such as saying thank you. I guess the parents just have to be a bit more careful on what they are saying about Politics! Hope it helps!

The sign of the times. Hate and violence ever look at the religious right ? here are some comments

We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA

-- Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

-- Rev Jerry Falwell

I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!

-- Rev Jerry Falwell,

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

-- Pat Buchanan,

I'm twice your age. As an adult, I don't think I owe anyone respect. I decide who gets it. Being a president doesn't earn you any on its own. In fact, my bias is to have less respect for presidents because they're largely narcissistic, unprincipled people pleasers who lie and manipulate to obtain power. And then when they get power, they - I don't know - send drones to foreign countries that end up killing innocent children. Or they have secret kill lists that include Americans. Or they indefinitely detain people without trial. Or they lock up people for smoking weed. Maybe you just have a deferential attitude because you're a kid, but I hope that as you get older you'll realize that politicians are probably some of the LEAST deserving of your respect.

We hate someone who has no problem destroying capitalism.

My country just voted for higher taxes, higher gas and food prices, more food stamps, higher unemployment, more business killing regulations, printing of money which devalues their dollar, higher debts and deficits, more of the same gridlock in DC, nukes for Iran, destabilization of the middle east, more redistribution of wealth from the producers to the non-producers or people Obama deems worthy of payback...gutting of the military, rationed healthcare, carbon taxes, a man who allowed 4 Patriots to die while he watched and then lied about it for weeks, a man who gave guns to Mexican Cartels which cost many lives including a US Border Agent, who doesn't care if the New Black Panthers intimidates voters...etc.etc.etc...my country has lost it's soul...and may never get it back.

Some deserve the outcome of what will happen next, the rest of us did not deserve it.

Guess you're not old enough to have seen all the hate liberals spewed in the schools about Bush.

Your bimbo friends don't try and judge for themselves but rather seek their parents approval. I am 14 and my parents are not particularly fond of gays, yet I am accepting as it is their life choice. Why? Because some people take the time to judge for themselves, unlike your friends.

Stupid parents is the main reason. BTW Obama is christian so people who call him a 'dirty muslim' are not only very racist but also very stupid.

Children are indoctrinated to love our dear leader