Rosa Brooks: I'm No Bush Hater

[brettdale]

Rosa Brooks: I'm No Bush Hater

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks29sep29,0,3026560.column?coll=la-home-commentary


ARE YOU A Bush hater, so blinded by "primal" loathing for the president that you automatically dismiss everything he says or does?

It's one of the far right's favorite weapons: If anyone criticizes the administration, brand them a Bush hater. The implication is that no sane or fair-minded person could be appalled by this administration's policies. Any criticism of Bush must be caused by what columnist Charles Krauthammer described as "contempt and disdain giving way to a hatred that is near pathological." My column last week, for instance, generated a response from one right-wing blogger that not only mischaracterized what I said but referred to me as "Bush hating," "blinded" by "virulent" anger, full of "unreconstructed rage" and typical of the "Bush-hatred of the American left."

[SmokingJacket]

1. Give me one reason to like the guy, that's all I ask.

One. Reason.

So far, Charles Krauthammer has failed to make me like him.

[texpatriot2004]

2. After how they treated Clinton nm

[VPStoltz]

3. Yeah, I hate him - so what?!?!?

Thank God for that pause button on my radio. The man is pathological liar - why listen?

[seabeyond]

4. nope. i hate no one. i dont care anything about bush. the man is

irrelevent. it is purely his policy and what he is doing to the nation. his lawbreaking. and dividing this country adn lack of morality i oppose.......... STRONGLY and PASSIONATELY

[galileo3000]

5. Injustice

"Where there is injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or do you fight to punish?" M K Gandhi