Now, my original response began with the words, “The office of the POTUS deserves respect…” I am all for a more respectful and civil society. Don’t read me wrong here. But slowly and surely, our civil servants are becoming our uncivil masters in many areas, or at least they think they are. Also, many of our more unsophisticated citizens have come to believe that out government rules us, rather than governs us. I simply don’t wish to throw any fuel on that fire.

Furthermore, I hold the tteachers unions to account for producing such an unaware and unschooled populace. Many people cannot place WWII in the right century. And US kids are just as smart as other kids in the 3rd or 4th grades. However, by the time they finish high school, they are scoring below students in such countries as Sri Lanka and Mozambique. And we spend as much or more money per student as any school system in the world.

And if you are or know a public school teacher, don’t take offense. My mother, aunt, cousins and many friends are teachers. There are mant dedicated and skillful public school teachers. For the most part, it’s not the teachers, it’s the system…

Analogously, while our legislation attempts to keep me from doing my neighbor minimal harm, and in certain areas attempts to extra from me provision for my neighbor’s (and my common) good, I am fully aware that it commands neither me nor my neighbor to love each other.

Yet we are in fact so commanded.

As an aside, I have never been credited with such influence as you have by saying “(my) point of view is the reason or (sic) country has reached such a sorry state.” Thanks for according that dubious honor to little old me!

Not sure I readily can see exactly how we have been suffering from a surfeit of godly obedience to authority, though…

Sgt. Crowley had every right in the world to refuse to meet with the president, as many others have done before him. I agree it was likely far wiser for him to assent to the invitation, but not required. Whether or not that might have “ultimately undercut” his authority is academic at best. If he meets you on the street while carrying out his duties as a police officer, and he orders you to do something, you are responsible to obey him whether he posed for a photo op or not.

So far as I know, we still do not live in a police state. I can refuse an invitation from ANY elected official. They work for us. I’m afraid your point of view is the reason or country has reached such a sorry state. Citizen obedience to the military is a feature of Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua and other banana republics, not the United States. We’re not there—–yet.

Back to Scope’s use of “the proper respect for authority”, had Crowley refused the invite for any reasons other than conscience in light of a clear law of God, that refusal would have ultimately undercut his own delegated authority.

Maybe the up side of NObama’s administration is that after four years of this nonesense no one will believe politically motivated cries of “racism” anymore. Godspeed the day…

And for what? To Get drunk between two bullies who have subtle (if not obvious) anger/animosity against his kind (read: color)? Crowley’s not a fool.

Thanks to VP Biden. He’s useful in this case. A very useful tool, in fact.

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

If he really believes that he could also invite Limbaugh and Levin…