Reply #77: I came in here to apologize to you

[mzteris]

I haven't even read this post to me yet, but I will.

I reacted badly to your comments up thread and I let things get personal. I should not have criticized your art. That was very wrong. Obviously you communicate much through your pictures and your art and I shouldn't have made that part of my critique of you.

I understand that you are VERY upset with the situation. I would be even more upset about the whole thing than I am now (and yes, I am) if I were still living on/near the Gulf. I completely do understand your frustration.

Sometimes I become way too focused on "logic" and forget about the emotions of people. I, personally, don't think that should be an excuse for failing to look at the "whole picture" of things. To look from the outside in and to remove oneself FROM situations - - - but I forget that not all people CAN do that. This comment is not meant as any further criticism of you or those who are being more on the emotional end about it. It is more a criticism of myself for failing to take human emotion into consideration.

I think, too, that because of the many trolls on DU who ARE "just obama bashing" - period - I tended to react to everyone's post in the same vein. That you only wanted to find "what was wrong" and not give one tiny nod to anything possibly done right. I don't want to think you're just one of those "haters" who is hoping and cheering for Obama's failure in office. I'm sorry I lumped you in with those people and treated you as such. You deserve better treatment than that, and I'm sorry.

I'll read your post to me now and I probably deserve (just about) everything you say. Though I will tell you true, I DO care about what has happened. I am not a corporatist nor an apologist (though I can see why some may think that). My - approach - to things ARE not quite what most NT's are used to.

And I am very sorry I behaved in such a juvenile manner in posting to you - especially under the circumstances.