New to this Forum, I am quite impressed by the vitriol of political opinion delivered with a venom not even Ann Coulter can muster. (At least she can turn a phrase). But it's hard to get too excited, considering that Mark Twain felt such opinion is strictly emotional. "To my mind, the bulk of any nation's opinion about its presidentŠis without value and not worth weighing or considering or examining. There is nothing mental in it; it is all feeling, and procured at secondhand without any assistance from the proprietor's reasoning powers." ("Eruption," p. 24). The diatribe would bear this out. He could also turn on the steam, calling Theodore Roosevelt, whom he voted for, "Šfar and away the worst president we have ever had." (Ibid.) JerryV