As they’d say in the 19xx, er… well, when we were younger, “amen brother.” Didn’t necessarily mean one went to church, but everybody used it anyway I knew who you were talking about, in fact, I think we met a couple at another corporation for whom we once worked.

The phrase just rang a bell, and when I googled the phrase – I was astonished by the number of hits. Finding out that virtually all of them were the article or someone referring to the article was a bit of a surprise. It shouldn’t have been, but it was.

I hope we manage to pull our collective heads out of ummm, yeah, anyway… If we don’t I think we’ll be in pretty bad shape, and if we do, we better be prepared to make a few hard choices!

Cheers.

But for the most part, I agree with what you are saying about both sides using the same tired tricks to obtain any political gain they can. Whether it’s a “death panel” or “code words” claims, both sides take advantage of the fear and ignorance of the average person, and feel justified because the other side is doing it so they have to keep up.

Whether it’s two opposing politicians, or two little kids, telling their version of the “truth”, the actual truth is usually somewhere in the middle.