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To: Zacs Mom
Wrong. Totally wrong. You don't dance on The Great Seal of the United States of America any more than you'd relieve yourself on the Flag - even if you've just been re-elected the First Employee. It is an important and respected device and should be accorded the same honors as the Flag; NOT used as a mere decoration.


14 posted on 01/22/2005 1:56:48 PM PST by solitas (So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.6)
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To: solitas
I read thru a number of the sites your google link offered and really didn't find any protocol with regard to the seal.

But, since I did find that the seal has been featured as the focal point of the carpet in the Oval Office through a number of Presidents, I think your assertion might be incorrect.

See:
Bush: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/images/20011221-2-1.jpg
Reagan: http://www.photo.net/philg/digiphotos/200209-los-angeles/reagan-library-oval-office.half.jpg
clinton: http://i.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/clintonlastdays/images/tue6.jpg

It is even used on set of the Oval Office on West Wing: http://www.inflix.com/cvfo/film_office_images/oval1.jpg
30 posted on 01/22/2005 7:11:00 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine!)
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To: solitas

I'm not trying to start an argument with you, but remember that the 'Presidential Seal' is on the floor of the Oval Office. As such, it is walked on frequently. If it were deemed to be something as sacrisanct as the Flag of the United States, it would be an insult in and of itself, for it to be used as a flooring decoration.

I would submit that the Presidential Seal becomes the President's emblem for his term. I do not find it disrespectful for a President to do respectful things with it. Dancing with your wife on the emblem of your office, does not show disrespect for the emblem, IMO. Dancing with your wife, showing her love and affection, is an honorable thing.

If the President were to conduct himself in a despicable manor, on the seal, I would agree that it was an act of disrespect, which I would frown on.

The President is the head of state. I personally found it appealing to see the President and his wife dancing on the emblem that signifies the President's station. I may be wrong, but I did not see this as disrespectful.


52 posted on 01/22/2005 11:33:48 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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