I am not familiar with the whole "Barry" thing.

 

Nor am I.

The difference here is that Republicans latched on to the term "Barry" and it became something of an insult, at least the way I see it. You'll find few Obama supporters in the general population that call him Barry. "Dubya" is different because it was almost a rallying call from Bush supporters down to the W bumper stickers on cars.

 

Are Obama supporters hypersensitive? Maybe. But it's not so much as what he being called as it is who is calling him it.

 

To balance that out, I would highlight President Barack Obama made a reference to folks like me as being the type who "cling to God and guns" or something to that effect. And as far as President George W. Bush goes, I very vividly remember him getting caught with a hot microphone telling Dick Cheney that such-and-such reporter was a "....." President William Jefferson Clinton looked me straight in the eye, and with pointed finger asserted, "I did not have sexual relations" with Monica Lewinski. President George Herbert Walker Bush urged me to read his lips before promising "no new taxes" and then whaddaya know? New taxes.

 

Seems to me that this respect thing is a two-way street...

 

Now understand, I occasionally refer to these guys in the way I do for fun, or most often, just because I want to. With the exception of Bill Clinton, it's never intended in a snide way; but neither am I going to apologize if it's received that way.

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Do me a favor and say "W" out loud, in a normal voice. If you're being honest, it comes out "dubya".

 

It actually does when I say it. But, as Randy says below, G-Dub is my favorite. For the record, I refer to my boss as B-Dub.

It actually does when I say it. But, as Randy says below, G-Dub is my favorite. For the record, I refer to my boss as B-Dub.

 

"The Sequel" was the first name I had for GWB, but it never caught on with any of my buddies in college, so we just settled for G-Dub.

I am not familiar with the whole "Barry" thing. Isn't that the name Obama gave himself but then went back to Barack at a later time?

When Obama's mom married his step-father they changed his name to Barry Sotero...

Do me a favor and say "W" out loud, in a normal voice. If you're being honest, it comes out "dubya".

 

Do me a favor and be honest, you know one is insulting and the other isn't. Back up your statment that dubya was a rallying call for conservatives.

 

BTW, it doesn't come out dubya when I say it.

So we have a problem with names, but nobody has an issue with the hardest part of the job being he can't get a burger?

Obama's wife calls him Barry..... Wonder what she thinks about him...

 

I've never heard her refer to him as Barry.

So we have a problem with names, but nobody has an issue with the hardest part of the job being he can't get a burger?

 

I understand what he was saying about it and I'm not bothered by his response as much as some others were. Could he have done better? Yes. But I'm not going to get worked up about it. I'll save that for some other issues...

I understand what he was saying about it and I'm not bothered by his response as much as some others were. Could he have done better? Yes. But I'm not going to get worked up about it. I'll save that for some other issues...

 

I understand what he was saying too. I think it should go without saying that if you're the President going places and doing things even as small as getting a burger are going to be far different. I'd rather the President think talking to families of dead soldiers is tougher than living in a bubble, but that might just be me.

I understand what he was saying too. I think it should go without saying that if you're the President going places and doing things even as small as getting a burger are going to be far different. I'd rather the President think talking to families of dead soldiers is tougher than living in a bubble, but that might just be me.

 

Well, I think I understand what he's saying. I don't think that any of the duties of the office are easy and some must be gut wrenching...like talking to the families of those who've lost their lives for our country. But, I know that I value very highly the ability to "get away". Sometimes that's going to a coffee shop with a book and finding a corner and reading. It helps me balance and helps me cope with a lot of really tough problems at work. I don't think he's dismissing his duties as less tough...just that the toughest for him is that he's always "on", and that means he doesn't get that time to be a normal person with normal interests becuase he can't just go out to a coffee shop. Everything for him is a production.

Do me a favor and say "W" out loud, in a normal voice. If you're being honest, it comes out "dubya".

 

Then why when you type it you use Dubya and W.

I understand what he was saying too. I think it should go without saying that if you're the President going places and doing things even as small as getting a burger are going to be far different. I'd rather the President think talking to families of dead soldiers is tougher than living in a bubble, but that might just be me.

 

Good point about how it should "go without saying" on the lack of privacy. I didn't think his answer was bad, but more felt like Bush's was that much better.

Do me a favor and say "W" out loud, in a normal voice. If you're being honest, it comes out "dubya".

 

When I say "W" out loud it comes out "double U" not "Dubya". Perhaps that comes from my aristocratic and uppercrust West Virginia upbringing. (Sure puts a stop to all the barefoot and pregnant rumors flying around about us Mountaineer women folk.) Or it could be from all the practice with enunciation as a voice major in college! Overkill at its finest.

The difference is that none of the nicknames you list are perceived to be disrespectful. "Barry" is used by those that do not like the guy and it's used as a pejorative ie Georgie.

WOW Clyde, Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Hennigan would be proud. I didn't even know what a 'perjorative' was until I looked it up! Here you go using it in it's exact meaning and pretext. :p