{"id":180,"date":"2014-09-25T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=180"},"modified":"2014-09-25T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:20:30","slug":"latte-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Latte salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/latte-salute.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" src=\"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/latte-salute-300x157.jpeg\" alt=\"latte salute\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/latte-salute-300x157.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/latte-salute.jpeg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 In 1981 then President Reagan repopularized the hand salute back to his accompanying military guards.<\/p>\n<p>No where in military regulations does it say that the Commander-in-Chief has to salute these men as he exits or enters Air Force or Marine One.\u00a0 Reagan started it (again) and following Presidents have done it as a sign of respect.<\/p>\n<p>Once, President Bush (Dubya) conducted this salute while carrying his dog.\u00a0 The dog was in his left arm, and the hand salute was done suitably.<\/p>\n<p>The media are comparing Bush&#8217;s salute to this one.\u00a0 Anything to protect the anointed one.<\/p>\n<p>What regulations DO say is that if someone is encumbered by carrying something they should not salute.\u00a0 Bush technically should not have, even though he rendered a sharp example.<\/p>\n<p>B. Hussein here, simply displayed his lack of knowledge and respect by throwing this one out there.\u00a0 He wouldn&#8217;t know any better really.\u00a0 Neither him nor anyone in his closest circle of advisers has ever served.\u00a0 These Marines are props at best, servants as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Harkin back to the umbrella scenario.\u00a0 The Marine, in his dress blues would not stand under an umbrella.\u00a0 He isn&#8217;t allowed to.\u00a0 But he&#8217;ll hold one over B. Hussein&#8217;s head to keep him dry.\u00a0 And ole&#8217; Barry loved it.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t know, or care.\u00a0 Period.\u00a0 (And I mean mine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In 1981 then President Reagan repopularized the hand salute back to his accompanying military guards. No where in military regulations does it say that the Commander-in-Chief has to salute these men as he exits or enters Air Force or Marine One.\u00a0 Reagan started it (again) and following Presidents have done it as a sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}