I respect your opinion. However, expressing yourself in such a backhanded way tends to raise the emotional temperature, especially online. It's better to make your points directly and not to work in a political needle through the back door as it were.
Backhanded? Unless you actually think that the presidency isn't something that should be used as a model for discussions and debates, there's nothing backhanded about it at all.
Perhaps you could get off your high horse and stop saying my motives are less than pure? Right now I feel you are lecturing me like an errant schoolboy. You, after all, are the one telling me I have "veiled" sarcasm. I'm telling you I don't and I thought my opinion - even if you disagree with it - was something constructive I could bring to this thread.
So, perhaps try to ascribe less to my motives given I have no idea who you are and I have never interacted with you before, not to mention my comment history shows I tend to be a pretty serious minded poster. It's hardly respectful to impune my motives when you have no real evidence to the contrary to inform your suspicions.
In fact, the only temperature that's being raised right now is mine, given you appear to be attacking my character. And that's a tad hypocritical.
