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Good to know you're ever on the prowl, dear lady. I wanted to ascertain reasonator's rationale so I went back to some early posts and found his defenses of the Governatrix. I didn't mean to imply that Palin's views on women's reproductive rights are one size fits all or lacking in nuance. Your information is all relevant to the question I was trying to raise in my clumsy fashion, and as always I learned a lot from your reply. Yes, in the past I've seldom hesitated to engage in debates with you because they are always fruitful. If my attempts to be witty or pithy have been inconsiderate I apologize sincerely. And I admit that I have a tendency to rise in defense of our first African American president at every opportunity, because for me his election was the most encouraging thing that happened in American politics in my lifetime. Surely you recall from past comments that I was a proponent of a ticket with Hillary Clinton at the top and Obama as her VP. In hindsight I still think that would have been best. But she and her husband have made peace with history and moved on and I would hope at some point you could too. Of course he's not perfect, but from your posts you apparently feel he has done nothing right since taking office. Given the challenges, I respectfully disagree. And I believe it is crucial for him to be able to lead the party to congressional victories in 2010 and to be reelected in 2012. Thus he must make compromises. If there is anything in Obama's record that leaves him vulnerable to right wing attacks, it would be the stands he took on these issues in the Illinois legislature. He did not vote "present" when women's right to choose was at stake.

Sorry - but that's not well intentioned - that sounds like proper busy body meddling in other people's lives and hold up - it's a store clerk - not a doctor, not a nutritionist, not a nurse - a store clerk - If I ever actually NEED intervention from a store clerk - I'm guessing a lot will have to have gone wrong in my life - or theirs!

I was refused sale of cigarettes the other day in Waitrose because I had a young cousin standing next to me - I explained that they didn't smoke and I was buying them for myself - and they still refused to sell them - they said that they 'believed I was purchasing them for a minor' - So I had to walk 3 blocks to the next shop. Given up now - but more pissed off that they had the right to just decide over my head what my intentions were.