When the Bush bashing was going on, amost all of the discussion was done via posts. Now we are seeing an incredible proliferation of links and cut and paste used as thread topic. There is a time and place for links and cut and paste, but it has becoming the norm and that is what is hurting the forum. Let's just hear each other's opinions and judge for ourselves. Intelligent and sparse use of cut and paste and links is ok, but not one after another after another..............................