Jeeze, bb, take a chill pill.

I think a lot of people were blinded by Bush's rhetoric. And many of them grew very aggressively assertive about it, if you recall -- to the point of passing great wads of slander and invective.

I think you are being a bit inaccurate to imply that my irritation with such people was peculiar or unusual.

Doug's implication that the "Popular Views of the Bush Administration" was "a private thread", as though the attitudes in it from all over the country were somehow my fevered and delusory imagination, was gratuitous and insulting, not innocent. It was a kind of underhanded rhetoric I have seen before. This has been explained to Doug before, and he persists in this particular little piece of weaselry. Your argument that "I have predominated on the thread" is not a defense for it. It is not a private thread, it is a public compilation of publically published views about Bush's administration. Using the term makes it look idiosyncratic and vaguely aberrated, as did the various insulting remarks about mental health which Dougie and other Bushites resorted to in the middle of it. Remember that part?

I am sure that you have better things to do with your time. If I called you a bushite in error, I apologize.

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