siradude I actually don't know if that was the book and I can't see if you included a picture (limits on my company system I think..) but it was my own example of (hated by so many) Goerge W. Bush being caught in what I see as a real no win situation, where he either lets the secret service evac him, scare the kids and looks like a running coward to the world or he finishes the childrens story. I think saddlebagus was probably really proud of the great defense he'd thought of for Obama but I don't think that our current president handled a much smaller scale attack (not saying Terrorist attack by the way) even half as well as GW initially handled the news of 911.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
-Robert Heinlein