Your reply contained the kind of rhetoric that I was referring to in my original post "evil and unqualified". Being politically incompatible with Obama is fine and appropriate, but calling him evil is inflammatory. Some people would feel justified in doing bodily harm to someone who is "evil". Unqualified? By what measure? Surely not by the "birther" nonsense - inexperienced? -- there is a case to be made there, but not unqualified. Many people who hate Obama are inclined to do so in part because of his race - perhaps not you, but many I have met would fit that description. Again, my contention is that inflammatory and ugly discourse is unhealthy, and it has nothing to do with the politics or the rightness or wrongness of the individual in question. Obama may be a bad president, and he may pursue bad policy, but to contend he is evil or has evil intent, or wants to destroy his/our country is simply ridiculous, and irrational.