Kim wrote:
"Steve Robeson K4YZ" wrote in message
...

YOU don't work for the president. Hans did. I did.

Steve? Are you referring to the military service of many men and
women?
They don't "work" for the President, even in figurative terms. They
work
for the defense of the United States of America--that means the
*people*.
Literally and figuratively.

Don't you agree with that?

The president is also the Commander-in-Chief of all US military forces.
Not just figuratively but literally - each and every branch of the
national military reports to the president. So anyone who has served in
the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard has literally "worked
for the president" who was in office at the time.

What I am saying, is that I find it embarrassing that two
gentlemen of
supposed education and respectability can't express themselves with
more
dignity and professionalism.

But, you don't mean that dignity and professionalism would have to
mean that
one would say they respect and agree with a President (or anyone
else, for
that matter), correct?

Steve took exception to my use of a common term for bovine excrement in
a post some time back. I pointed out to him that Our Illustrious Vice
President Richard Cheney had used an even more offensive term when
speaking to a persistent reporter - in public.

Seems to me that I'm expected (by Steve) to behave to a higher standard
of public verbal expression than the VP. IOW, it's ok for *him* to tell
a reporter to "#@#$ off" but not ok for me to say that a statement is
"b@#$%$(t".

Double standard? You decide.

What does his academic achievements or lack of have to do with YOUR
use of
profanity or conduct in a open forum, Jim?

Oh, I see...somewhere along the way someone has used some sort of
*GASP* bad
word, and now that is what this thread is all about.

Apparently, my BSEE and MSEE somehow preclude my use of the above word
here, but VP Cheney's education does not preclude his use of far more
offensive words in public.

To Steve, anyway.

73 de Jim, N2EY