Freedom of speech versus freedom to be obnoxious.

That might be the best way to frame the conversation that has been taking place on our Opinion pages and online – not to mention in my personal e-mail folder – ever since I chose to publish a letter to the editor last Sunday about the Legislature’s ill-fated attempt to adopt a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Check that.

It wasn’t so much about impeachment per se as it was about the arguably insulting language directed at the prime sponsor of the resolution: state Rep. Betty Hall of Brookline.