Sean:
"I don't know if this can make sense to you because much of this is visceral and emotional rather than anything else."
That level of visceral emotion would be okay in the classroom, Sean, but it sure as shucks would not reach out to the unemployed U.S.workers for whom Obama is trying to get extended unemployment benefits...but the GOP is blocking it. Perhaps we here in old Canada are just too far removed from the personal experience of Americans to know the effect on millions of individuals. Or is that just too subjective for the planners of the fate of millions?