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>>>You wrote, "...you are unimaginative as well."

That would be some surprise to the folks who buy and read my fiction and to the clients who employ my commercial art talent and graphic design expertise. That is how I make my living. And it's a very good living, thanks.>>>

Wow, it seems you reserve that imagination to those talents because it certainly isn't showing up here.

[Rembrandt_fan]

Quit with the personal attacks against me and address the argument. In case you've forgotten, I argue that Webb's fiction should not be used as ammunition against him in a political campaign.

There is the exception, of course, should his books be a thinly veiled vehicles intended to advance his political or philosophical views--the authors Ayn Rand and Sinclair Lewis spring immediately to mind--but Webb has a reputation as a serious writer of serious fiction, based largely on his novel, 'Fields of Fire'. He isn't known as a pornographer or--based on any evidence I know of--as a proponent of child molestation.

A writer describing a horrific act or presenting characters who do terrible things does not mean that writer champions those acts or ascribes to the views of the characters he or she creates. Attacking a writer's character on the basis of such scenes, however repugnant those scenes might be to a given reader, or--for that matter-- however badly written, does a disservice to the author, however much one may disagree with his political viewpoint. Go after Webb on the basis of his words and actions as a public and political person, not on the basis of the fiction he writes.

That's the argument I'm making. If you think you can refute it, by all means try.