No, Don...what I am avoiding doing...and most of you here can't seem to avoid doing it in your political debates...is I am avoiding speaking in absolutes and reducing situations to absolutes. I am recognizing that human beings are complex...they're not one dimensional cardboard figures. And situations are complex. Obama is complex. There are things I admire about him, things I disagree with in his policies, criticisms I could make of his decisions, and accolades I could give him for other decisions.

All of that.

When I disagree with people here, it's usually because they're speaking in absolutes. They've decided that someone or something is ALL one way or ALL the other way (good or bad), and it isn't. That's not rational thinking on their part, it's just emotional thinking, usually driven by anger, resentment, partisanship or some other negatively charged emotion.

I don't let that sort of primitive, lazy, emotional kneejerk repetitive and predictable stuff go by. I point it out.

And that's what you really don't like about my comments, not the fact that they are otherworldly or monklike or divorced from the world of normality.

I look at the complexities, I look at both sides, I assess the pros and cons, and I avoid the common stupidity of reducing everything to absolutes and stereotypes.

As Akenaton said below, "the agenda of most here is to see "their" side win". Exactly. That is the real agenda most of you constantly pursue in your political debates and other debates, it's self-serving, it's ego-driven, it has nothing to do with fairness, balance or rationality, and when I see you doing it, I let you know about it. And you don't like it one bit.

Society will not be free of prejudice and inequality until people (no matter what side of the political divide they are on) STOP thinking at all in terms of a person's outer appearance, skin color, gender, religious identity or any other superficial attribute like that.