Good response, Chels. I give you a lot of credit and respect for facing the heat head on. In your passion for politics and talents with a catchy phrase, some took your comments more personally than you may have intended. I probably winced once or twice myself.... but, wholeheartedly support your right to express yourself.

Others have similar strong feelings about issues and disagreements create animosity. The competitive nature of our society...us vs them, win vs lose, in your face, etc makes it much more difficult to have rational, reasonable discussions.

The political forum got very heated and posts along the way became personal or were intrepreted to be personal attacks even when they weren't. The Admins' reminder to be civil and not to attack other members should have been a fresh starting point for new discussions.

The election is over but discussion of issues goes on. I would hope that discussion of our public figures doesn't degrade any further than what one would hear on O'Reilly, Leno, or Jon Stewart. Public figures are fair game...TOTV members are not.