Yeah, pretty much...

[simonejester]

Someone at ontd_political linked to this ontd_p entry and I think this part is very quotable:

The message began ominously enough, with words no one really likes to hear directed their way.

"With all due respect," it read.

As a writer I am painfully aware of the imprecision of language. Meaning is not always perfectly--and often not at all--communicated by the words we choose to represent our thoughts. But if there's one thing I've learned in the course of 42 years it is this: whenever someone addresses you by saying, "with all due respect," you can rest assured they think you are due very little of it. And furthermore, in what follows they intend to deliver to you exactly that amount of this precious commodity to which they believe you are entitled.