White to Perry: Show respect to President Obama

[The Northerner]

AUSTIN — Democrat Bill White said on Friday that he doesn't think Gov. Rick Perry shows enough respect to President Barack Obama.

White told the online Texas Tribune that he doesn't think Perry should be referring to Obama in his television ads without using his title.

"As a citizen I call him president. President Obama," White said. "Whoever is the commander in chief, whether it be George W. Bush or President Obama, you need to refer to our president as our president."

Later, speaking to reporters outside the studio where the interview was being taped, White referred to the TV ad in which Perry says he "confronted Barack Obama" during the president's visit to Austin. Perry, as governor, greeted Obama at the Austin airport upon his arrival and gave him a letter asking the federal government to boost security along the Texas-Mexico border.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/7249315.html

[cutlassmama]

1. I agree with Bill White on this. K & R

[democracy1st]

2. Agrees K & R!

[Number23]

3. A disgusting tactic used by far too many people.

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Bill White is right. Perry is disrespectful.

Whether you like him or not; voted for him or not; are a Democrat or not, you address him with President Obama because the majority of the American people chose him, voted for him, and he has earned the right to be addressed correctly.

But Perry surmises, that President Obama is not only a Democrat, but he's an African-American, too, and he isn't worth being respected.

Perry is a joke.

[FreeJoe]

5. Funny

I totally agree that Rick Perry is a lousy governor and needs to be replaced. I also wish very fervently that people were more civil in political discourse. That said, I find it amusing that people here are suggesting that the President of the US be referred to respectfully. I don't recall that being very common here when the other party held the office.

[6000eliot]

6. I always referred to Bush as "President Douchebag."

Never just "Douchebag."