"On the plus side, he didn't get hostile when I ventured my opinion that Bush was set up by a cabal of Clintonoids within the CIA, and actually thought he was telling the truth."
The man should be congratulated for not laughing in your face.
If you are ignorant of the fact that there was a cabal of Clintonoids in the CIA working to undermine Bush, then I should be congratulated for not making an insulting comment about it.