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These people are in politics. Who is to know who started the discussions but politicians start discusssions of issues that are highly political. It is not as if you and I are neighbors and get together and I bring up a charged issue. My guess is the hyperbole is all the authors and not the participants. I suspect these people just spoke their minds and have a high degree of tolerance for each other, unlike some FReepers. And the author is turning it into a national enquirer story. I am actually impressed that the conversation wasn't empty, vapid and stilted as what you might expect on a formal occasion. Sounds as if it was a good dinner table talk,,some people enjoy it. Hey, in some quarters it is an ideal occasion if everyone mixes it up. It is a dinner, not a Baptist Church tea with the new Minister.

Sounds as if it was a good dinner table talk,,some people enjoy it. Hey, in some quarters it is an ideal occasion if everyone mixes it up.

Agree. At my house you're only penalized for avoiding an argument. I would certainly argue respectfully with Cherie in person, but at a suitable distance the combination of her arch euroleftist views, her soft spot for palestinian thugs, and her loopy new age beliefs, are just too ripe a target for disdain and ridicule.

My guess is the hyperbole is all the authors and not the participants.

Exactly. The article is based on info in a new book so the article is a print version of one of those infomercials we all love to hate.