"Michael 182" wrote in message
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:25:26 GMT, "Michael 182"
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Last try, Larry - at least for me. I did not suggest President Bush as
an
individual is worthy of respect. I wrote, pretty clearly I believe,
that
the
Office of the President deserves respect and courtesy. It is as simple
and
obvious as standing when the Star Spangled Banner is played.

So you believe that the respect shown by German citizenry for the
brutal tyrant who seized control of Germany in the '30s was a
good-thing®? You'd have given him a respectful salute as his
motorcade passed? While lemmings must suffer the consequences of
their failure at independent thought, I'd expect an airman to respect
the TRUTH not dogma.

What is so hard about this? Why would you think I would salute Hitler? Are
you equating the Office of the President with the Chancellor of the Third
Reich? I never said every office deserves respect - I was, and am, pretty
specific. The Office of the President of the United States deserves
respect.
It is part of the traditions and institutions of our country. Within the
civil confines of that respect we get to work for and vote for a new
leader.
Seems like a pretty good system to me.

Michael


The only way a person gets respect is to earn it. It is not appointed,
demanded or institutionalized.