Bucco, with all due respect, and believe me I do respect you, it is hard to fathom you making a living in politics. You are seemingly, so thin skinned and sensative to disagreement, that politics would not seem to fit your profile. I think you are sincere and resolute, but you really seem to take this board and the comments made here, a bit seriously. This is a forum for people to express opinions, and some like to use it to tweak opposing views. In the end, no one is influenced by anything written or posted on the forum. Everyone who is motivated enough to sign up and post on a board like this is likely already comfortable with their ideology, beliefs, prejudices, and politics and are not likely to be persuaded otherwise. It should, in my opinion, be a nice little diversion, to be indulged in on a casual and infrequent basis. Good luck and don't get overwrought by those who would disagree with you - in many cases your obvious discomfort is their comfort.