[MRM]

No it's not, and if that's what he really believes then he doesn't understand anything about what America stands for and where America came from.

George Washington lead the colonies through the Revolutionary War at considerable personal expense and peril. Once the war was done he was a national hero and expected to move from comander in chief of the army to lead the new government. He could have become the new King George by acclimation.

Instead Washington resigned his commission to the Continental Congress in a public cerimony and went home to Mount Vernon. He did so deliberately to set the precedent that the new new American government was an organic organism, of the people, by the people and for the people. It was not a government meant to perpetuate itself. The power of the American government come FROM the American people, the American government doesn't grant power or rights to the people. It was only years later that he allowed himself to be drafted back to be elected the first President of the United States, another position he walked away from deliberately and for a point.

When the English King George was asked what he though George Washington was going to do after the war, he said that he thought Washington would go home to his farm. Then he added, "If he does, he will be the greatest man in the world". He may have been. I know our lives are better for him having set the standard.

As a result, the United States, has had peaceful changes in government for centuries, and even put down the rebelion that was the Civil War. And the legacy America has given all other liberal democracies that have followed is the same: the government serves the people, it changes peacefully and does not live to perpetuate itself.

Now I will be the first to admit that America has not always lived up to this standard, but it aspires to. When we live in a perfect world it will meet this standard without fail.

By the way, there is a substantive diference between calling an opponent a liar and chopping off his head. One is completely different than the other. And not all governments exist only to perpetuate themselves.