Thank you, pdq. You have demonstrated two things.

First, that you support someone who was really abusive and nasty, and hid behind multiple personalities, and would manipulate to a degree of cruelty.

Second, you had a chance to come off as a decent guy by simply apologizing for the crude language. Had you done so, we could have put it behind us. I will do that now, put it behind us, because you have made my point.

Finally, to the subject at hand. I have major issues with Walmart's competitive practices. I have seen them cost good working people their jobs and their futures, not because they weren't profitable, but because they wanted more and couldn't care less about the havoc they wreaked. Like Kendall, I see them as the tip of the spear which will lead us to another time in history when working folks are fodder for a few families, to be used up and spit out.

Having said that, I do not like the amount of emphasis being put on them in the fall campaign. I believe that it is fraught with peril for the Dem's. It is right to target abuses of the system. It is name the abusers. But they aren't the target in the fall. The targets are the politicians who take their money and refuse to fix the system. Walmart is simply a symbol of what is wrong. Trade practices, resolving the health care crisis, getting out of Iraq in a sane fashion, that is what the emphasis should be on.