I disdain all political books, so I will avoid this effort.
But isn't it telling the responses from the leftist posters on this thread, smirking and sneering at the thought of a former president, who they actually think he is an illiterate, daring to writing a book in his retirement. These people truly do believe their own nonsense, as though their collected prejudices constituted the font of all knowledge.
I am //this ready// to see just one person cut through all of this leftist posturing pseudo-intellectual bullsh**t once and for all.
Ah indeed Pseudo-intellectual bullsh**t almost as predictable as your response. Isn't politics great?
And, to think, I respected your opinions.
What I do hate here on the AF, and elsewhere, is the (obvious) attempt by the left to apply the slanders so successfully laid on Bush to anyone who doesn't agree with them. It is fundamentally illiberal since it shuts down even the possiblility of debate. I damned sick of it.
You respected
my opinions? I'm amazed.
Sorry actually, I can be a real jerk off sometimes (it's probably my age... my opinions haven't really formed yet, but I can be defensive...): but this whole conservative moralist streak that I usually see in Sam Spades posts and occasionally yours (and Dazzleman when he was here) post is really beginning to grate. Even if it is/was a refuge from the inane liberalism of most of the commentary here.
As for Bush, now personally I enjoyed a bit of GWB bashing now and then? Who, of those that considered themselves on the "left" like I did, did not? I think you'd agree he made himself an easy target, the whole adminstration did and was. However I would agree that if this continues (and it is) well into this current adminstration, then not only it is a smokescreen for the failures of the current adminstration (shouldn't we, at this time especially, concentrate on the present rather than the 'past') but is strongly
anti-political; substuting rhetoric for actual analysis, thus helping dumb down the public sphere even more. And yes, liberals can be awfully illiberal against non-liberals. But we already knew this, ask most conservative leaning Christians. None of which is to say that I don't think Cheney, et al shouldn't be in jail.
Also I really think you have a personal vendetta against France which I find extremely irritating. (Not that some of the things you say aren't true...)
