Blade, this is a polite, honest attempt to find out why you said I was attacking you. My “attack” consisted of a simple, sincere request: show me one post you’ve made over the past year that is critical of Obama. It was not a gotcha or otherwise loaded/bad-faith inquiry. I don’t know your posting history. For all I knew, when I asked the question, you would hit me w a list of forty or fifty criticisms leveled squarely at the marxist in the Oval Office. If you had, I would have said, ‘thank you; that made for some fun and delightful reading’.
I still, to this moment, find it hard to believe that having belonged to FR an entire yr, you have yet to proffer even a minor criticism of Obama. That staggers me. But for you to call even the mere question an “attack”??? That is taking it too far. When you accuse someone publicly of attacking you, you should have a good example. To claim that being asked if you’ve ever criticized Obama is an “attack” - my cow; by that definition, if I type, ‘Hi, Blade’, *that* is an attack.
Let me illustrate the quandary. Suppose you belonged to thefogbow for a year. Somebody over there one day posted, ‘Hey, Blade, have you ever said anything good about Obama?’
Would you immediately start screaming, “Attack!”?
I can’t imagine you would. It’s a mere question. All you have to do is answer. To posit that anybody asking you a polite question is attacking you...that is weird. Hopefully you will answer and help me to understand what’s going on. As it stands, it just seems...odd.
“I can’t imagine you would. It’s a mere question. All you have to do is answer.”
Well, that’s not my recollection. Your first question, I answered directly: I’ve posted on just a few other subjects, and yes, I’m here on the birther issue. It was your continuing focus on me, rather than the subject at issue, that I took as an ad-hominem attack. It was certainly ad-hominem, directed at the person rather than the argument, but maybe I went to far in describing it as an attack.