By the way, he started. Which I suppose reflects poorly on him, and worse for you not recognizing that while lobbing your own insult.
By the way, he started.
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You are a well educated and intelligent grown up. I doubt that you are a prodigy posting here on Free Republic.
“He started it!” , is something I hear from my preschool grandchildren ( with appropriate foot stamp, pout, injured expression, and whine).