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• Monday, March 31, 2008 01:04 PM

  The problem lies at the top of page two

  The first letter on the second page. Read it.

  An Open Letter To Those Who Need To Hear It:

  Read that letter. The attitude expressed is what is wrong with the left, the Democratic party, far too many so-called "liberals", and a good chunk of alleged progressives, and may well be what costs Obama the general.

  It is why a good chunk of America hates your guts. It is why Limbaugh and Michael Savage have such huge audiences. It is "What's the matter with Kansas?" It is why the Republicans have been able to make "liberal" the premier political epithet of our age.

  I work in a university, in a technical field, not an academic. There are a thousand little shitbirds who float through here every year with exactly the same type of smug, dismissive attitude displayed in that letter. Some of my co-workers fit that demographic exactly - you might be able to substitute the exact religion - and they hate your fucking guts. Because you are an asshole. Because you look down your nose at them and their Yuengling drinking ways. (BTW, it's WAY better than Bud.) And they know it. And they hate you right back.

  They might go bowling. Because they actually like bowling. Or maybe their friends bowl, and it's something to do and a chance to get out of the house on a Wednesday night. Not because, you know, it's like so cute and so retro and you thought it would be cool to go slumming in what you regard as an inferior culture by actually going BOWLING.

  You are looking down your nose at them, and they are looking right back at you -- through an upraised middle finger.

  You lost this election 20 years ago, you stupid fucks, by being a bunch of smug, know-it-all pricks. I hate you too.

  —handlebar Read handlebar's other letters
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