I get really annoyed by this.
I am friends with a lot of liberals. None of us "hate" the president. We are embarrassed by him, p.o.'d at the hypocrisy (government should leave us alone except when it comes to the most intimate aspects of our physical and moral lives???), frustrated by politicians IN GENERAL, and more than a little fed up with being told that you don't dare challenge the way America does things because then you're on the side of the terrorists. Give me a break. This country was founded on dissent. I have the right to dissent. I'm guilty of hyperbole at times, but hate??
Please, show me these America haters? The ones protesting? Oh yeah, if you wave a sign and yell, you must hate the country. The ones criticizing? Definitely better to shut up and just go along with something you don't like. The ones who think Bush can't do much of anything right? I guess that makes me a hater...how many people felt the same way about Clinton? I don't recall many libs calling them un-American at the time. Ann Coulter might be one of the most hateful people I've ever read, but I look at her as a single person, not as a mouthpiece for most conservatives. So why doesn't it go the other way?
There are a lot of hotheads on both sides of the divide. There are very few people who actively "hate." It's a word that gets thrown around a lot, but I think you are way off base for suggesting that people prefer bin-Laden to Bush. It feeds right into what the most rabid of right-wingers would have you believe, and I'm assuming they don't speak for you, just like crazy Ted Rall doesn't speak for us. Man, and you wonder why we can't have a civil dialogue as a nation...
Rant, rant, rant. Sorry to grumble, but it's just frustrating/exhausting to feel like we're all just at each others' throats. Just because I'm avowedly anti-war doesn't mean I hate anybody, okay?
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