Will, I thought the OP was patronising in the extreme, how dare they apologise for people who were only exercising their democratic right to vote for whom they please. It seems typical of the elitist mindset which took away the political representation of countless millions.

You don't get my point, do you? It doesn't matter what the OPs did or didn't mean, or how it might be taken by anyone. The point is that to discuss the rights and/or wrongs of an unrelated incident from the Vietnam war and the particular actions or non-actions of a senator in that conflict has sweet FA to do with the thread. Nothing to do with it - is irrelevant to it - doesn't have the slightest link to the original topic.

Got the point now? It's what happens to so many threads on Mudcat - massive drift because a coterie of people can't watch their lips and stick to the topic. Just the same, internecine squabbling by the same few people - over and over again.

It's what makes so much of the Mudcat B.S. section a huge turn-off for many people who don't post down here any more. Anyway, end of my rant and particular drift!