[Deb]

Hello! I know what the point of the hit piece was and the "problem" for me was the snarky, prejudicial set-up. Using the word "luxury" instead of "mistimed" or "ill-timed", leads the reader to feel contempt for this undeserving buffoon before we even find out he's attempting to redeem the trip by pretending it was campaign fact-finding on the World economy.

Its mocking contempt married to petty political BS and is made to connect to the Tiffany hit pieces.

But thanks for the lecture.

[fightinJAG]

Oh, please understand, I wasn’t lecturing you. And if it came off that way, I apologize. I was simply being exclamatory in general.

And your rant is absolutely excellent.

Yet many continue to miss the point.