Hi McGrath,

I agree that the discourse or debate is polluted by some passions.
Moore is funny, though. But it's not about facts any more.
It's a clash of ideologies. In America, we're too close to the process of elections to take an objective point-of-view. It's more about how a candidate or a supporter appears on TV and it doesn't help that there is a highly virule anti-intellectual strain rampant in our country that is being spread by a partisan pseudo-religious faction who tend to vote Republican. To hear them talk,
God don't wantcha' to read or think too much.

There is another virus, the largest one being warmongering which is somehow connected to owning guns. It's funny how this heavy-handed approach to problem solving is revisited time and again. Insanity: Doing something over and over again that doesn't work.

I am optimistic about our country, though. We've got quite a few sane, intelligent and sensible people who sometimes are allowed to peek through the clouds of media spin and shine some light on important issues.

Frank