[HPFGU-OTChatter] Talking of losing perspective ....

[Saitaina]

K wrote:

<so much as their definition of
threat, which in this case would
coincide with most reasonable people's
definition of joke.>

Oh I'm sure to the individual agents it
was a joke too, but they still have to
go out.  On any given day there is a
Secret Service agent reading his
morning case file and going, "Not
again!  Do I really have to look at
this?"

I feel most sorry for the agents
assigned to cases that are multiples,
as in people who constantly make
threats against the life of the
President.  Since you never know when
one might just be real, you have to
check it out each time.

<I know you Americans are a
tad bit more sensitive on these
matters, but seriously if that were to
be
the worse thing anyone said about Blair
this week (hell this hour!) he'd
probably consider it to be cause for
celebration>

I'm sure Bush would feel the same way,
but we've had too many assassinations
in our short history for us to ever
feels safe letting things go about our
leader.  While this can never compare
to the number of Kings/Queens/PM's that
may have been killed in the UK's
history, we have a short history and a
great many attempts.

Plus we think about it more, the closer
we are to an attempt/actual
assassination.  John F. Kennedy's death
was a HUGE thing for my mother's
generation and almost everyone my age
that I know can remember Regan being
shot at.

<I sort of understand the idea of
respecting the office if not the person
but
it's very difficult to respect the
office of President/Prime
Minister/insert
your leader of choice here when *snip*>

Agreed, especially now (I'm a democrat
(liberal), we're in the minority in the
States at the moment), but I come from
a VERY patriotic family and we've
always defined it, that you can hate
the man/woman (in whatever office), as
a person, but you CANNOT hate the
office they hold.

I've always stated (especially
recently), that as a person, excluding
the fact that he is my President, I
honestly can't stand and dislike George
W. Bush (no offense to those who like
him).  But as the President, solely in
that capacity, attaching no names, I
honor and respect the man willing to
take on that position and am proud to
have him, despite what I think of him
(or her) as a person.

It's rather like the Freedom of Speech
slogan, "I don't have to like what
you're saying, but I'll die for your
right to say it."  I don't have to like
the man, but I will support my
President.

Honey, I'm still bitching about the US
elections.  I think I broke something
when I heard the results.  But, such is
life.  You win some, you lose some, you
wait four years and hope the next guy
agrees with you.

Although it's fun for my republican
friends and I.  For four years I get to
blame them for everything since 'you
voted for the guy'.  :o)

Saitaina
who is no longer allowed to watch CNN
during Presidential speeches as she
tends to throw things at the TV.
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