I'm handling the heat just fine, Dave.

I just get a little sick of your condescension and self-proclaimed superiority. Very unbecoming.

You'll notice that even when I disagree strongly, I can just respectfully disagree. But you seem to feel a need to personalize it. And when you do that, it's harder for me to just respectfully disagree.

You seem to feel that when you have an opinion on an issue, your opinion becomes fact. And when I, (or anyone else) has an opinion on a subject and you disagree with it, no amount of facts I present are ever adequate to validate the point, in your oh-so-superior estimation.
Which is pretty typical of many of the liberals who post here. I like to keep it civil and stick to the issue, but you make it pretty difficult to maintain a discussion of the issue.

I wish you'd take your own advice from a previous topic, and "Go for the ball, not the man."
Which was pretty funny even in that topic, as I pointed out there, because you were the one going for the man and not the ball.

I'd be glad to have a discussion of the issue at hand, if you and several others would refrain from dragging these topics down to insults and personal remarks that obscure the issue being discussed.
But then, this was just a one-sided Bush-bashing topic to begin with.

I should follow the example of the Nature Boys, and just stick to one-liners and not waste my time attempting to engage you in serious discussion.
You give the APPEARANCE of wanting a real debate, and even offer some facts. And I really don't mind your dissenting opinion, even if I disagree with it.
But then you constantly personalize it to the point that your personal insults and condescension eclipse any real debate of the issue in any given topic.

As for your anti-American rhetoric, it's quite prevalent in your posts.

This one a few weeks ago really pissed me off, because I go to the comic book discussions to get away from these partisan trench wars and have fun, and it really pissed me off that you took a fun topic about Superman's upbeat and arguably symbolically American qualities, and you felt a need to turn it sour:

http://www.rkmbs.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=164290&page=28&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

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Originally posted by Dave:
An adolescent power fantasy/morality play. Or, perhaps, a fantasy plot device capable of rendering the world into simplistic black and white by which all problems are capable of resolution through the exercise of effortless power. Kind of like American foreign policy. But perhaps, to be more kind, an expression of American idealism, in what was perceived to be a simpler time.



I just felt it pointless and inappropriate.

Just like the schmucks who felt a need to urinate on Rob's "Official list of 9-11 victims" topic:

http://www.rkmbs.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=216616&page=10&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1



If you feel a need to post this stuff, okay, fine. I feel a need to regard it for the kneejerk anti-Americanism that it is, and after a while give it all the attention that it deserves: None.

I wish I could say it's been a pleasure. It used to be, at one time. You seem oblivious to your own bias and kneejerk tendencies.

There are times when I still enjoy discussions with you. But so often lately, you feel a need to divert into condescension, dismissive categories, and insults.