"This president...."???

[PatSeg]

Not "The president", "Our president", or "President Obama", but "This president". Yet another little republican trick to make the President appear to be illegitimate. It jumped out at me when Reince Priebus said it before President Obama's speech and I realized that republican politicians use it all the time.

It immediately brought back a memory of John McCain during a debate when he referred to Obama as "that one". Oh the nasty little games that nasty little people play.

[livetohike]

1. Yep - and when they say "Obama care", I always think

that's President Obama care to you! In fact, at a townhall with my Repub. Congressperson, I corrected him in front of the crowd.

[PatSeg]

12. A week ago I wrote MSNBC

when I heard Alex Witt refer to Health Care Reform as Obamacare. I was so offended to hear a newscaster parroting republican talking points and I told them it made her sound ignorant. It is bad enough that republicans keep coining new words and phrases, but there is not excuse for any real news person (as in not on FOX) to repeat them.

[livetohike]

20. Alex Witt is an idiot

and good for you that you wrote MSNBC! The media need to receive more mail and complaints and maybe they will stop this idiocy.

[vaberella]

18. All MEDIA describes it as OBAMACARE. Right wing TP's win again. n/t

[OHdem10]

2. With FDR they would not even utter President, instead they

would refer to the President as "that man in the
White House"

I think they are using "This President" as a way
to express exasperation.

Rocky road ahead, I would say..

[PatSeg]

16. I didn't know that

but I can see it. My father hated FDR with a passion and I know there many like him. Of course FDR's enemies are barely a footnote in history, but today's republicans still don't get it.

[treestar]

3. Media pundits and so called journalists use it to

more or less say: we're always here, but Presidents come and go.

[Ninjaneer]

4. Thinly veiled racism. n/t

[PatSeg]

21. Code to their base

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Blue Owl]

5. What about "that" pResident?

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Hmmm.

My shoes prove my Get-it-ness, pal!

[bushisanidiot]

7. I make a point of NEVER calling President Obama "Obama".

He should ALWAYS be addressed as Mr. President or President Obama. "This president" is entirely WRONG and used in a way to demoralize President Obama.

[janet118]

8. I will say that the Republicans are so good at using and . . .

repeating Luntz-speak that the media and even Democrats pick it up and start talking like them.


I am hearing a quite few younger Democrats referring to their party as the "Democrat Party." Too bad Democrats don't try to frame their message the way George Lakoff told them to. Too bad Luntz is a well-paid consultant and Lakoff has disappeared. Democrats couldn't get on the same page if their lives depended on it.

[phleshdef]

9. To be honest, I've said "this President", "this Congress", etc.

And I'm definately a supporter with a lot of respect for President Barack Obama. Some people just talk that way.

[kjackson227]

10. I have too. So, when I say "this president", I mean the one presently in office.

:shrug:

[phleshdef]

11. Yea, or "this congress" as in Boehner's 2011 Congress and not Pelosi's 2009-2010 house.

People just read too much into things sometimes.

[PatSeg]

14. That is understandable

You are speaking in a historical context, such as "this particular president or administration". The way Reice Preibus used it was not in that context. I'm quite sure "this president" is on a list of republican talking points somewhere, right next to DemocRAT Party.

The extremists can bring up the whole birth certificate issue, but the more mainstream republicans will say pretty much the same thing with phrases such as "this president".

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13. hypocrisy is a fundamental tenet of the republican party.

they're all about respect for the office of the presidency when there's a republican in power, but they're juvenile punks when a democrat is in office.

"you lie"
"that one"
"this president"
and a laundry list of accusations that he's not even constitutionally qualified to be president.

they're more vile than usual this time around because he's not white, but in truth they did mostly the same sort of crap to clinton. the birther thing is just obama's monica.

[PatSeg]

15. They were brutal during the Clinton years

What really pissed them off was Bill Clinton just became more popular with voters and Gingrich left Congress in disgrace. They'll never learn evidently.

[unblock]

17. being wrong doesn't bother them. they get paid very well to be wrong.

and that's the problem. there's always big money for any assclown who cares to tout the pro-big-business line.

republicans get their family members on boards of directors and into great colleges, they retire to lucrative speaking tours, and they get their ghost-written books bought up by the truckload by some church or whatever.

democrats retire and become professors and bust their butts writting college textbooks and getting nearly nothing in royalties.


i think the vast majority of republican leaders don't know or care about what they're saying. it's all just a job to them and they're all just chasing the big bucks.

[PatSeg]

19. Just actors reading from a script,

walking away easily much like an actor walks off a movie set.