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>Your notion that 'the president is an imbecile' alone is enough to have your reply be regarded as a violation. Why? Because if your remark is not regarded as such, then you clear the path for someone else who wants to write that Kelly is the biggest idiot on earth, and so on.
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Peter,

this is only "my" business in that I too am a member of this service.

Firstly, there are many people in the world who think President Bush is "an embicile" and more who probably have worse adjectives to describe him. So it begs the question of 'since when is a possible or probable truth an "attack"'??? Would all have been Ok if Mr. Censored had said "dullard" or "dim" or "stupid" or "obtuse" or "idiotic" or...

Now what is the problem with opening the door to someone calling Kerry the biggest idiot on earth?... this *IS* the CHATTER FORUM and people are free to read messages or not.

You are looking to make a vanilla flavoured place, a "Happyville", and you appear anxious to use your vested "authority" to ensure that it comes about.

We are all adults here, Peter. If someone makes the odd observation that is more colorful than the average, surely ADULTS can let it be rather than RUN TO MOMMA or yell "I'M GONNA TELL ON YOU". That is the domain of children.

Jim