pan....I'm not going to debate you on debating (or posting) styles, but based on my 20+ years of working in grass roots politics, I think I have a pretty good sense and feel for when its makes sense to be respectful and when its necessary to call bullshit when it stinks. But even in the case of the latter, it is a stretch to call it a personal attack.
If you have framed your initial concern in a different way other than state
"There is no way in Hell I am voting for a man that goes to a church that wants to divide my country further (no it doesnt) and promotes a race ancestory and foreign continent over my own country (no it doesnt)....." (yes, your characterization of his church was bullshit to me)...perhaps the responses would have been different.
As to your Swift Boat reference, I could characterize your initial post as a "swift boat type" attack (particularly the false characterization of the church in the statement above). And the lesson learned from 2004 is that you dont respond politely and respectfully to such scurrilous attacks. You call it out for the bullshit it is.
I stand by everything I posted
