Letters to the Editor
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re: quickstrategy
Sorry, but I think anybody who says that booing W is equivalent to "booing the office" has gone mental. And I've heard the argument used before that a President should be respected solely because he's holds the office of President.
In my mind, that makes about as much sense as feeling obliged to sit quietly in one's seat on a bus while a drunken bus driver careens towards a cliff.
I only respect individuals based on how they are doing what they are supposed to be doing, not based on the implied status of the office itself. A priest who molests children does not get my respect. A judge who is on the take does not get my respect. A doctor who doesn't maintain sterile procedures in the operating theater does not get my respect.
And a President who pursues a strategy of deception to start a war which leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands for no valid or reasonable purpose that I can discertain...well, he gets even less of my respect than the aforementioned doctor, priest, or judge. And I think anybody who thinks there is anything remotely questionable about booing him is mental.