{"id":1342,"date":"2009-01-26T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2009-01-26T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:58:00","slug":"respect-for-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Respect for the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan never went into the Oval Office without a suit jacket and tie, and that was his rule for everyone who entered.&#160; He did it out of respect for the position.&#160; We know (unfortunately) how much respect Bill Clinton gave the office.&#160; President Bush also had that dress code as well.&#160; But Obama?&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/01\/21\/a-major-bush-rule-gets-scrapped-by-obama\/\">Naah.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now you can say this is making something out of nothing (as <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkingmeat.net\/2009\/01\/22\/wingnuts-your-best-entertainment-value\/\">some on the Left have<\/a>), and admittedly it&#8217;s just clothing.&#160; But it exposes an underlying attitude that I think speaks to how Obama treats the position of President of the United States.&#160; I honestly hope he doesn&#8217;t take it as casually as he appears to, but his outward appearance says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I&#8217;ll bet he (rightly) expects people to respect his position, but he won&#8217;t treat it with the same deference.&#160; A tad hypocritical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan never went into the Oval Office without a suit jacket and tie, and that was his rule for everyone who entered.&#160; He did it out of respect for the position.&#160; We know (unfortunately) how much respect Bill Clinton gave the office.&#160; President Bush also had that dress code as well.&#160; But Obama?&#160; Naah. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}