>>Dan, what purpose did it serve to start this thread? I think of you as a thinking man's conservative, a guy with a good head on his shoulders and compassion to match. I haven't forgotten that you were the one person here who said you would be there for a UT relief mission on the Gulf Coast. Then you come out with this. Why intentionally provoke people? What's the point in that? Reasonable people can disagree, to coin a phrase. Let's leave the intentionally divisive stuff to the "professionals."
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>Ever read some of threads initiated by Perry Forman's? Talk about intentionally provoking people.

I agree. But Sam, that's straight from the political playbook -- when criticized, counterattack! My point was we ALL need to rise above that level. We have common needs as Americans, needs that are not being acknowledged very well by either party.