With all due respect, Little Hawk, you're doing it again. Aloof, superior, above-it-all, and judgmental. You do that quite a bit when, apparently, a discussion gets a bit too heated for your taste. Some threads operate of a couple of different levels. You are seeing only the surface and you are missing what really matters.

I have long since given up on David. My interest here is the discussion with the other folks, to read what they have to say, and to express what I have to say. I will quit when I am ready and I don't have to prove anything to you or anyone else.

Little Hawk, I like you. You are an intelligent, generally well-informed person (albeit one who has some erroneous preconceptions about American politics that you tend to reiterate in every political discussion), and in general, I enjoy your posts.

But—(and you knew there was a "but," of course) there are times when you can get outrageously pompous, and this is one of those times.

Sorry.

Don Firth

P. S. I will probably not be back tonight. I am following the election returns.