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>  >You can show 
> respect for someone's position without respecting the person.
> 

In dealing with the idea that one may have to salute a--holes in the 
military, an old saw is that you are saluting the uniform not the person.

Similar to that is in dealing with the police.  If you come across a 
stupid, obnoxious law officer, consider it like dealing with a junk-yard dog. 
 
There's a certain way to deal with them if you goal is to come out of the 
encounter the least scathed as possible.

What I mean is this:  the office of president belongs to us, the people, 
not the president.  The president is just breifly occupying it.  The office 
itself only degrades to the extent that we, the people, allow it.  

James