And quite a lot of them thought the President deserved what happened.
"A new President deserves a chance to put a team together and get under way," he said.
If so, the President deserves no punishment of any kind.
In those ancient days, they thought the president deserved some credit for the state of the economy.
He added that the government needed to provide for the kind of ceremony the former president deserved.
The President and the taxpayers deserve to see the full numbers.
The President deserves credit for acknowledging deficit spending as a problem.
The young President is trying to provide moral leadership and deserves support, not sniping.
But they also genuinely believed that the president deserved credit for going out on a limb.
But what kind of marks does the President deserve?