Hey Bud, Alexis, Wade, Pres…et al – I think this thread has turned in a little lesson in what makes genuine political discourse difficult in America – it’s also an object lesson in why Obama’s anti-ideologue’s message resonated with youngsters. Delia’s Gone as the song says…- nobody can talk to her unless you agree with her on HER social issue…The pubs will be screwed forever if her sort rules…Not that I should really care. But – what the hey, it’s not just young’uns you’ll lose with this sort of fantaticism – There’s old Mrs. McCain too. I was just thinking again of the currents of feeling that must have been in the room when the Old Lady wss hanging tight with Sarah P. It’s America – but damn – the class/culture divide there dwarfed anything on offer when it came to the break between “Reagan Dem” and O’s nation….