Why you shouldn't read other people's mail

     You really shouldn't read other people's mail, but we do it all the time, when someone forwards an email to us to show how ridiculous someone else is. I saw one the other day that troubled me, and I shouldn't let it. It wasn't addressed to me, was not a personal attack on me, but rather on my friend, and so was none of my business.
     It's really no skin off my nose if someone who can't read or write with proper grammar shows his ignorance and lack of maturity with such silly tirades just because he dislikes President Obama. I guess it could be argued that anyone who likes President Obama lives in a fairy tale world and talks to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but why would anyone stoop to such a silly remark? Maybe it was the best they can do.
     Considering the company some of these angry people keep, and the bad habits they have picked up, they might benefit from a few hours sipping milk and cookies with Micky Mouse.
     I don't know; maybe they just feel they can't keep up their end of the debate by sticking to real issues, but they're comfortable in a bar fight.
     For a lot of the most incoherent out there, the only issue they have is that they don't want Barack Obama to have a second term as President. They seem to be reduced to sputtering when asked what it is that is so bad about Obama that it was deemed necessary by some people to start the campaign for the next election the day he took office. Kidnappers, thieves and child molesters get a better trial that some people have given President Obama.
     The rancor that pervades the country seems to have emanated from the fact that an African American from Chicago -- or some other foreign country -- has taken up lodging in the White House neighborhood.
     Despite the fact that many of Obama's liberal supporters are displeased with him because he has not been liberal enough, rock-ribbed Republicans and conservatives of even more libertarian stripes are not dissuaded from their annoyance. It's clear they don't like him, want him voted out, but there the clarity ends; they do not have the vocabulary to give a good argument.
     So what is a body to do if they don't support the policies of a president, or a governor, or a county commissioner? Be reduced to bleepity bleep kinds of ranting? Or would it be better -- more grown up -- to counter actions or proposals that you find objectionable with suggestions for another way, or challenges to the rationale for the current leaders' direction.
     It just seems to me that you can't defeat the rationale of opponents if you remain, or become, irrational yourself.