[Vanders9]

I dont have any problem, principally because the alternative is a system whereby the head of state is also a political figure.

IOW How do you manage to have respect for the office of the President, when the president is Barack Obama?

[Terry L Smith]

vander sez:
“I dont have any problem, principally because the alternative is a system whereby the head of state is also a political figure.

IOW How do you manage to have respect for the office of the President, when the president is Barack Obama?”

Point 1 - ‘dah roy-aals’ ARE a political figure, or else why do the Brits still use the term, “in the Name of the Crown”?

Point 2 - as was taught to me many moons ago, by my ‘Training Instructor’, who was a part of the military honor guard over JFK’s body:
‘You salute the uniform, not the assshole wearing it!’ And so it is to the Queer-In-Charge, the same way.