This ladies and gentlemen is R E S P E C T

Thanks for the article Jim..

Disrespect for United States Presidents is nothing new .. but it has been magnified in the current, as well as the last administration.

I did not agree with former President Obama - but I showed and still do show respect to him and former First Lady Michelle. 

I do not agree with the current president, and have a difficult time saying his name - but I am working on it : )  First Lady Melania ... I have NO issues with her!

Peace!

Jim , I assume you are a good patriotic American and so was the wounded man in Las Vegas. 

What has Donald Trump ever done that merits respect? 

What did Bill and Hillary Clinton or Obama ever do that merits respect??

They are both respected.

Not by me.  

What did Bill and Hillary Clinton or Obama ever do that merits respect??

• • Longest economic expansion in American history
    The President's strategy of fiscal discipline, open foreign markets and investments in the American people helped create the conditions for a record 115 months of economic expansion. Our economy has grown at an average of 4 percent per year since 1993.

• • More than 22 million new jobs
    More than 22 million jobs were created in less than eight years -- the most ever under a single administration, and more than were created in the previous twelve years.

• • Highest homeownership in American history
    A strong economy and fiscal discipline kept interest rates low, making it possible for more families to buy homes. The homeownership rate increased from 64.2 percent in 1992 to 67. 7 percent, the highest rate ever.

• • Lowest unemployment in 30 years
    Unemployment dropped from more than 7 percent in 1993 to just 4.0 percent in November 2000. Unemployment for African Americans and Hispanics fell to the lowest rates on record, and the rate for women is the lowest in more than 40 years.

• • Raised education standards, increased school choice, and doubled education and training investment
    Since 1992, reading and math scores have increased for 4th, 8th, and 12th graders, math SAT scores are at a 30-year high, the number of charter schools has grown from 1 to more than 2,000, forty-nine states have put in place standards in core subjects and federal investment in education and training has doubled.

• • Largest expansion of college opportunity since the GI Bill
    President Clinton and Vice President Gore have nearly doubled financial aid for students by increasing Pell Grants to the largest award ever, expanding Federal Work-Study to allow 1 million students to work their way through college, and by creating new tax credits and scholarships such as Lifetime Learning tax credits and the HOPE scholarship. At the same time, taxpayers have saved $18 billion due to the decline in student loan defaults, increased collections and savings from the direct student loan program.

• • Connected 95 percent of schools to the Internet
    President Clinton and Vice President Gore's new commitment to education technology, including the E-Rate and a 3,000 percent increase in educational technology funding, increased the percentage of schools connected to the Internet from 35 percent in 1994 to 95 percent in 1999.

• • Lowest crime rate in 26 years
    Because of President Clinton's comprehensive anti-crime strategy of tough penalties, more police, and smart prevention, as well as common sense gun safety laws, the overall crime rate declined for 8 consecutive years, the longest continuous drop on record, and is at the lowest level since 1973.

• • 100,000 more police for our streets
    As part of the 1994 Crime Bill, President Clinton enacted a new initiative to fund 100,000 community police officers. To date more than 11,000 law enforcement agencies have received COPS funding.

• • Enacted most sweeping gun safety legislation in a generation
    Since the President signed the Brady bill in 1993, more than 600,000 felons, fugitives, and other prohibited persons have been stopped from buying guns. Gun crime has declined 40 percent since 1992.

• • Family and Medical Leave Act for 20 million Americans
    To help parents succeed at work and at home, President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993. Over 20 million Americans have taken unpaid leave to care for a newborn child or sick family member.

• • Smallest welfare rolls in 32 years
    The President pledged to end welfare as we know it and signed landmark bipartisan welfare reform legislation in 1996. Since then, caseloads have been cut in half, to the lowest level since 1968, and millions of parents have joined the workforce. People on welfare today are five times more likely to be working than in 1992.

• • Higher incomes at all levels
    After falling by nearly $2,000 between 1988 and 1992, the median family's income rose by $6,338, after adjusting for inflation, since 1993. African American family income increased even more, rising by nearly $7,000 since 1993. After years of stagnant income growth among average and lower income families, all income brackets experienced double-digit growth since 1993. The bottom 20 percent saw the largest income growth at 16.3 percent.

• • Lowest poverty rate in 20 years
    Since Congress passed President Clinton's Economic Plan in 1993, the poverty rate declined from 15.1 percent to 11.8 percent last year — the largest six-year drop in poverty in nearly 30 years. There are now 7 million fewer people in poverty than in 1993. The child poverty rate declined more than 25 percent, the poverty rates for single mothers, African Americans and the elderly have dropped to their lowest levels on record, and Hispanic poverty dropped to its lowest level since 1979.

• • Lowest teen birth rate in 60 years
    In his 1995 State of the Union Address, President Clinton challenged Americans to join together in a national campaign against teen pregnancy. The birth rate for teens aged 15-19 declined every year of the Clinton Presidency, from 60.7 per 1,000 teens in 1992 to a record low of 49.6 in 1999.

• • Lowest infant mortality rate in American history
    The Clinton Administration expanded efforts to provide mothers and newborn children with health care. Today, a record high 82 percent of all mothers receive prenatal care. The infant mortality rate has dropped from 8.5 deaths per 1,000 in 1992 to 7.2 deaths per 1,000 in 1998, the lowest rate ever recorded.

• • Deactivated more than 1,700 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union
    Efforts of the Clinton-Gore Administration led to the dismantling of more than 1,700 nuclear warheads, 300 launchers and 425 land and submarine based missiles from the former Soviet Union.

• • Protected millions of acres of American land
    President Clinton has protected more land in the lower 48 states than any other president. He has protected 5 new national parks, designated 11 new national monuments and expanded two others and proposed protections for 60 million acres of roadless areas in America's national forests.

• • Paid off $360 billion of the national debt
    Between 1998-2000, the national debt was reduced by $363 billion — the largest three-year debt pay-down in American history. We are now on track to pay off the entire debt by 2009.

• • Converted the largest budget deficit in American history to the largest surplus
    Thanks in large part to the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act, the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and President Clinton's call to save the surplus for debt reduction, Social Security, and Medicare solvency, America has put its fiscal house in order. The deficit was $290 billion in 1993 and expected to grow to $455 billion by this year. Instead, we have a projected surplus of $237 billion.

• • Lowest government spending in three decades
    Under President Clinton federal government spending as a share of the economy has decreased from 22.2 percent in 1992 to a projected 18.5 percent in 2000, the lowest since 1966.

• • Lowest federal income tax burden in 35 years
    President Clinton enacted targeted tax cuts such as the Earned Income Tax Credit expansion, $500 child tax credit, and the HOPE Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits. Federal income taxes as a percentage of income for the typical American family have dropped to their lowest level in 35 years.

• • More families own stock than ever before
    The number of families owning stock in the United States increased by 40 percent since 1992.

• • Most diverse cabinet in American history
    The President has appointed more African Americans, women and Hispanics to the Cabinet than any other President in history. He appointed the first female Attorney General, the first female Secretary of State and the first Asian American cabinet secretary ever.

It's sad that after all the good that Bill did, all republicans can do is bring up his blowjob. 

He lied, that's what I was talking about.

Name one politician that hasn't? 

What has Donald Trump ever done that merits respect?

He beat Hillary!  

John, I would have stood up had President Obama and Michelle came into the room.  I consider him worse than Trump but I would have stood.  Guess what John, I would have stood for Hillary had she won as well.  Some things are more important than petty politics.  Respect for the office.  Respect for the flag.  Respect for the country!  Those are more important than petty politics!

I beat a girl in school for class president, you have to respect me now. 

I beat a girl in school for class president, you have to respect me now.

That is amazing!  I do respect you now!

This is what it is all about in America!  Respect!

The FFs and the patriots went through a lot of shit to get us free from tyranny. 

I love our Country. 

Some people just don't get it.  It's freedom, man!

A miracle sent by God?  A guy with a bullet wound to his leg stood up. I'm sorry, but whoopti-freaking-flip.  My uncle accidentally shot himself in the leg, drove himself to the hospital, and then drove himself home.  I was raised Southern Baptist, but not a single one of us thought that was a miracle from God.

A real miracle would have been if this guy had been dead, and then stood up.  As it stands, this was a cheesy photo op for Trump and the Missus.  What are the odds that either one of the Trumps remembered that man's name 5 minutes after leaving the room?

You meant to say 5 seconds, didnt you? 

And, was your uncle's injury the same as this one's?

I don't think you know that.

I am so sick and tired of this pessimism regarding anything and everything that Pres. Trump does or says.

not a single one of us thought that was a miracle from God.

That obviously was the opinion of "all of us" at the time. You are shooting the messenger here. It should be fairly obvious that this "Miracle from God" was the author of the original piece's opinion. As such he was free to share his "feelings" through his writing. Perhaps the "miracle" in his opinion, was that fact that the man was alive at all given the carnage of the whole event. Being raised Southern Baptist and possibly from the south, I imagine you all got a chuckle out of the fact that your uncle was a dummy (no personal slam meant by that) for shooting himself and, as it seems the wounds weren't life threatening nor debilitating or filled with excruciating pain (an assumption from the fact that your story had him doing the transport for himself) it is a bit of a horse of a different colour. This man clearly had difficulty standing by the looks of it in the video.

Thanks for reading and your "this was a cheesy photo op for Trump and the Missus" comment, obviously, again, the author felt it was worth sharing and people seeing. It will be lost on some but a noble effort IMHO to show that some people truly are patriotic. For all we know this man did not vote for Mr. Trump. Therefore threw any bias he may hold out the window and showed the respect at least the office commands.

What have you done today to try to pull people together rather than farther apart?

We can call it what we want, Sister, but it's a miracle he didn't get shot in the heart or your Uncle didn't shoot himself in the head.  I'd just say both of them were very fortunate.

I loved watching the TV series, The West Wing. One of the best speeches President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) made was to Dr. Jenna Jacobs, and at the end of putting her down for her beliefs. It was:

"While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits."

By the grace of God, Thomas survived the gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital where he was treated and where he will remain for sometime while he undergoes multiple surgeries on his leg.

1) There are no vital organs in the leg. Just the femoral artery, which would have killed him in under a minute if he was hit there. 

2) "Grace of God"? Where was God for the 58 that died? Funny how that works. "If it's good, God did it, if it's bad? God had nothing to do with it", that's a really unique brand of delusional.