Let's get one thing straight. He did not receive the majority of the votes in 2000. He was given the majority of electoral votes. And that, of course, was thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Any respect he should have been given was there at the beginning of his first term. He subsequently found ways to lose that respect by disrespecting his countrymen with manipulation of truth, enriching corporations by weakening environmental regulations, crushing our constitutional freedoms and erasing the barriers that keep religion out of government. Once you turn your back on the people you've sworn to serve, you don't deserve ANY respect.