Taking a moment for reflection

I was just trying to say that the substance of what you say gets lost when you call people names and such. Your posts come across as longwinded rants and it gives me a headache.

Now who sounds like a whiney liberal? You have yet to respond substantively to anything in this thread. All you have done is complain about how I have responded. And now you're trying to transfer that to me?

I think not.

The words that you use against Bush about the War in Iraq sounds like something from MoveOn.org and Air America.

Maybe to someone who isn't paying attention. Or is it that they sound the same to someone who isn't interested in objectively considering their own position? There's that equivalences thing. Once again, I doubt either of those organizations has accused Bush of being a socialist or a Marxist, as I have. You won't hear them complaining about Bush and his rubber-stamp Congress bloating social spending. You also won't hear them berating him over his open borders policy.

I do consider you a Bush Hater.

And I guess that allows you to disregard whatever I might say about him, regardless of the truth of it. I hope you know that is the clarion call of the Kool-aid-drinking True Believers.

But this isn't substantive, either. It's just more complaining about style.

I give what you dish out on here on a routine basis.

So this is the Internet dialog version of nanny-nanny-boo-boo? In any case, the style seemed to be fine with you until I belabored Bush and the Republicans.

I'm sure that most of the people who read this board will say that you ad hominem and name call all the time.

Then they, like you, need to learn what is meant by ad hominem and the difference between name calling and a predicate nominative.

I don't want to call you names because we agree on much more than we disagree about, but if you tick me off, I'm going to fire back.

And there it is. Whether or not my style of online discourse is lacking is irrelevant in the face of your ego. I may or may not be engaging in ad hominem (which I defy you to find from me in this thread), but if I "tick you off," then you reserve the moral high ground for whatever response you care to offer.

Yeah, right.

I'm ready to hear any substantive rebuttal of what I offered at the beginning of this thread. I'm not holding my breath, though.