Ok, noob, not sure when this turned into a d!ck measuring contest, but I daresay it really isn't any of your business. Suffice it to say I've been around quite some time, and have plenty of experience when it comes to politics. You can trust when I say I know what I'm talking about.
I can trust you because you assure me that I can trust you??? Oh my, you are full of yourself!
From the evidence of your posts as a political concubine of the obscene blowhard Manhattan Motormouth, Mr. Bluster, the question arises: Will I trust your self-serving, self-evaluation or will I believe the evidence witnessed by what you hallucinate to be my lying eyes? I'm going with the evidence. Objective over subjective any day of my life.
If you had anything to measure, you wouldn't be fleeing back behind the barn. You don't and that is why you are understandably uncomfortable choosing between dishonesty or being exposed as without substance. The only credential I am seeing is that you have been here since 10/28/99, although I must admit that I had never noticed you previously. I would certainly prefer not to notice you again, given what you imagine to be your capacity for thought and what you probably consider to be your blazing insights. In the absence of that resume as to which you are understandably and necessarily modest, fallen as I and every person is, I may occasionally fail in my determination to ignore you.