I've been lurking on this thread, but felt it was time to join in, not in the pissing contest, but to voice a fear; In the quotes about the response to our folkie friend was this one;
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'I thought it was very out of place," said Dean Davidson, a real estate broker from Waxhaw, N.C. "I could hear the pacifism in his voice. To me it's just the same old, same old you hear every day; criticism of the administration's policies but never a new idea."'

'Could hear the pacifism in his voice'????? When 'pacifism' is used as an implied term of abuse, and is apparently unchallenged, we need to be afraid. Very afraid.
Tim from Bit on the Side