Letters to the Editor
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@shooter242
history is filled with polarizing figures for whom some cannot find a kind word; this is not any kind of "syndrome"
Indeed and Hitler is one of the favorite comparisons. Do you consider that a fair comparison? Objectively, it's not even close yet the comparison is made all the time. Who else is a polarizing figure is so one-sidedly derided that wasn't a monumental villain?
This may be the worst logical leap you've made in...well, days. Who mentioned Hitler? I said "polarizing figures." How about Senator Joseph McCarthy? How about FDR? How about Nixon? How about Clinton (either one)?
Or rather, if one doesn't have anything nasty to say about Bush, don't say anything at all? Krugman has been doing that for seven years now. That's really deep seated prejudice.
It's no such thing. Respectfully, you don't seem to have read a word I wrote. Krugman is a liberal columnist; Bush is the leader of a radical conservative movement; so radical that his unpopularity amongst conservatives is unusually high.
At the same time, as I documented upthread, Bush is hated for exactly some of the same things Clinton has done, yet Clinton is revered. You can brand that as malicious hypocrisy, or irrational prejudice. Take your pick.
I call it liberalism, and I call it popularity. Neither is any great mystery. Clinton was loved by many and hated by many; it depends whom you spend your time with. This is Glenn Greenwald's blog; not Instapundit. We're not hypocrites; we're liberals.
You're actually trying to argue that a President who won over the majority of the population (vs. a President who is less popular than Nixon at his worst) is an example of hypocrisy and prejudice. You're not making any sense at all; just flailing wildly. Usually I can find some seeds of reason in what you're writing.
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Anonymust.
I got as far as to see shoter242 showed up-
Then I read Anonymust's "smudge sticks' sage-a-grand
thought: I'm too weary to browse along here and read any more,
O, but gracious, O-my, I always plead for a good memory of the farm market rides into downtown DC! Thanks.
I gotta kook ouT. Rest. Remember, a-now-a-Tomorrow-okay, and the choir of birds caw in a brilliant Red Maple Tree! The Gold
Marigolds bloom's, and the sun-rays are gold, a cab's inner truck becomes awesome filled with gold-light. Everything always will continue to glow, radiantly!
The grey sage-sticks are woven together and intertwined. And when lit, the leaf will smoke. It use to happen all the time in a old farm-market truck! Flowers do bloom in my memory,
now, so a marigold,
memory from you to me,
Anonymust.
I am very sleepy. Lambs are in the barn, and tomorrow sheep will come into a meadow? I'm not real sure, for the weather Lady said there's a 100% chance of thunder storms with showers! On topic or not, I'm never real sure. (forgive)
The moon is in the west,
none can see in a sprinkle
rain nights like this. gads.
O, so embarrased am ya's who?
I hope for a harp-stringed Lady to 'roll' out me...with a bread wood dough-wood-roller...to only pin roller, just, O, only...
go knock out me. sorry.
Lambs in the Maple Tree?
How can that possibly be?
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@ Orbitboy
"...Where have we heard this before?
So as far as I can tell, the Bush supporters are thoroughly disgusted with all this hatred for their boy shown by those on the left. They are proposing that liberals "lay down their arms" so to speak, and then--maybe--they'll agree to play nice, too."
Yup.
Lucy Van Pelt. Charlie Brown. Football.
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Chilling
My favorite bit of forgotten news is when then-President Clinton instituted the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell policy. Shortly afterwards, he was headed to North Carolina (home of many service bases) and that state's senator, Jesse Helms, said on national television, "I don't know if it's such a good idea for him to come down there." Essentially, in code, Helms was talking about the president's assassination. I rue the day this little nugget got lost in the right-wing news vacuum.
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Mena, Arkansas
Two teenaged boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, were found murdered on the railroad tracks, but not in Mena. I believe it was somwhere in Eastern Arkansas and it was thought that the boys stumbled on a drug operation.
Mena has a thriving airplane repair and remodeling industry. Something went on there in the 80's but Asa Hutchinson, who was then the federal prosecutor, did not feel it merited his attention.
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Bebop-o...
I was going to post another comment for you and Pedinska and jkalos, and whoever else was with us (lurking or not) on that sub-thread... and ask if we were going to have a group "cleaning" devoted to clearing the maladministration. If not, I might just do it on my own...
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Who's acting irrational, again?
“Bush hatred,” was coined as a term several years ago to forestall conclusions based upon mounting evidence that Bush was not just a bad president, but one of the worst this nation has ever seen, if not the absolute worst. You could talk all day about Bush’s policies and politics, but the more evidence you piled, the angrier it was assumed you were. A forceful rebuke of Bush simply wasn’t considered suitable for polite conversations.
As most of you know, the charges that were thrown against Bush back then have mostly stuck. Those with “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” it turns out, were talking perfectly complete sense and identifying the early signs of Bush’s departure from America’s previously charted course. They were the ones actually behaving in a rational matter, basing conclusions off evidence and sticking with them when they weren’t popular.
...if you'd like to read more on our take on the Berkowitz article, please go to our website, Iowa Liberal, to read the rest. We don't take the same Wall Street Journal angle as Glenn does but then again, I we did bang the post out with complete ignorance to Mr. Greenwald's article here on Salon. My wife called me up when she read it at work and jokingly called me a plagiarist.