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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (45489)	3/10/2002 7:27:38 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

Again, and you can let this go, soon, it is a diversion, imo. It must be, so contentless is it. (The assumption that you and CH were, "recently," friends to the degree that you might mediate better than those whom you criticize, is hardly a terrible insult, btw. I thought it was nice of you to befriend CH. I did not see where you made clear, as you say, that you weren't friends with CH and never would be. I accept completely that you did say it more than once, I just didn't happen to see it. It does suggest that you were doing it to project an image rather than to offer him human warmth or support or cheer him up. But maybe that's just me: if I needed a friend and they kept saying I wasn't their friend, I'd find it cold comfort.) As I said: I saw many friendly exchanges between you and CH. I felt a sympathy coming from you to him. You talked kindly, nicely, in a friendly way to him, and he to you. Surely it was not "manufacturing" facts to conclude that, certainly sufficiently to the purpose of being an appropriate mediator, you were a "friend" of both parties. Do you understand now that i wasn't accusing you of mingling blood and vowing eternal loyalty to CH, whom you have now made clear you don't like much, and will never be friends with? And yes, if you and Mrs. Peel commence a friendly exchange of dozens of posts over days, someone might well get the impression that you are "friends," in SI terms, at least for certain purposes. (Unless they saw your assurances you weren't friends.) If you want, I'll go find some misleadingly friendly-sounding posts, though I'd rather eat supper.