Reply #86: Actually, being a true critic is rare.

[mrbluto]

And we could use more.

We don't have problems because we have debates - we have debates because we have problems.

Or at least that's the way it should be in the Democratic Party.

Seeing so many slavishly complementary posts reminds me too much of a cult of personality.

When I sense a cult of personality I reach for my pen. (which I'm told is mightier than the sword)

If more people had done that over the past nine years we would have been a whole lot better off.

I regret not doing it more often.

p.s.: You're actually taking a jab at me because I had to go and write a paper? Do you listen to yourself? You sound just like a jockish bully in some schoolyard. How's that for irony?