Reply #51: Well, That's Sad News to Hear

[GiovanniC]

But I was not purposely provoking her or baiting her into some sort of an attack. I am used to bantering with this person. If things had ended after I had said that I would decline to comment about Reagan, that would have been a normal thing. We go back and forth superficially, never getting into details but just gently ribbing each other, then agreeing to disagree. But for some unknown reason, she felt it necessary to say that while Ronald Reagan was "a good man", that Bill Clinton was a "creap" (sic). In my mind, that's where things really took a turn. Up until then I thought we were being good-natured about things. It's hard to tell in email, though.