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Originally posted by Sparhawk
The common disrespect people use toward the man in the Oval Office bothers me as well, but it is in a sense, an inevitable historical legacy, both of Vietnam and Watergate, the omnipresent media - which goes hand in hand with a president's often bubbling attempts at presenting an image, and we come at last to the Clinton and Bush years. So it doesn't surprise me one bit. But do I let folks I know get away with it? No (well, I let my Dad slide), just like I don't let enlisted folks call officers by their first name - Respect the Office, if you can't respect the man.
But it's also politics as usual on an internet forum 
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Sparhawk, when the interloper in the oval office evinces so little respect for that office, how can anyone else be expected to? Bob Dole I could have respected while I disagreed with. Or Malcom Forbes. Or really anyone who made any effort to pretend that they were doing the job. Not the joker SCOTUS dealt us.
I do understand what you are trying to get at: the king's two bodies and all. I just think there's a point at which the king has so spectacularly failed in his public body, that the office is actually vacant. Time was, you could haul him off to the tower and strike his head off for that, but I am against the death penalty.
I'll respect the office when someone holds it again.