The comments by the Indian Army chief seemed to catch even India's elected leaders off guard.
It is directly controlled by the country's supreme leader, Mr Khamenei, who is chosen by regime insiders for life and outranks the elected president.Many guard commanders eventually end up in senior government posts, but they exert political influence long before then.
The American people elected representatives to guard their interests against unaccountable bureaucrats, and the administration repeatedly ignores the democratic process in its attempt to rescue the law.
"Barack Obama wasn't elected to stand guard over the status quo; he was elected to change it," his chief political strategist, David Axelrod, said in an interview.
Elected officials offered guarded reactions.
And the question before us today, as we begin the drive for the White House, is this: Are we going to elect the old guard that created the problems or a new guard that will continue to work to solve America's problems and make this a better, safer, more secure country?
A ruling in State Superior Court here was a major political triumph for Samuel Rivera, a burly 54-year-old security guard who was elected last month as the first Hispanic mayor of the predominantly Hispanic city of Passaic.
"We are just not going to allow people to become unlawful," said Morton County sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, a veteran of the North Dakota highway patrol and national guard who was elected to his first term as sheriff about two years ago.
Pershing was one of 10 guards that Coach Moore elected to keep.
Although most elected Democrats have offered only guarded support of the movement, more than two-thirds of those surveyed say the protest is likely to have an effect on the views of Democratic politicians.
Over the last two months, Mr. Bloomberg has made it clear that he intends to significantly thicken the lines that separate the private and public lives of the highest elected official in the city, guarding his privacy more closely than any other mayor in modern history.
