College Conservative

Or, as some people call it, "his name."

You can call him that if you are obama's equal, until then, you should refer to him as President Obama

I work (very indirectly) for the President, so sure. But everyone else in this country is his boss and can call him whatever they feel like.

isn't it a sign of respect, unless you directly know someone (for example), and are their equal, you would always use the polite way of referring to someone (i.e. Mr Smith or Father David, or Doctor Illman), same goes with the president: President of the United States is his title, and therefore you should call him directly by the name of President Obama, or President Barack Obama,

Traditionally in the US politicians, especially presidents, try to cultivate an image of familiarity with the people. Hence they are often referred to by last name only, or in some cases by nickname (Dubya), diminutive first name (Jimmy, Bill, Dick), or initials (JFK, LBJ, FDR). "Mister" is used almost exclusively by journalists in my experience.
In a sense, this is entirely fitting and proper since the president does work for, and is ultimately responsible to, the citizens, and it is the person of superior status who has the prerogative to set the level of formality of address.

That's completely fine, but that usually only happens after the president's term expires

That statement has no basis in reality as far as I can tell.

My point is that you should use people's titles out of respect...when President Obama's term expires, maybe people will call him BLO

BHO...not BLO

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I don't know where you came from, but where I'm from using someones whole name means one of two things, you respect the person, or if it's from your elder it more than likely means they're angry.