A durable hatred
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Jay Nordlinger is the managing editor of National Review and an online columnist for NRO. His Impromptus column is always worth reading. Here is a tidbit from "The beast from the east &c." (his June 7 column) that has lodged itself in my mind. You might want to recall it the next time you hear a lefty liken the hatred of President Bush to conservative antipathy to President Clinton:
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I learned from yesterday's Hotline that Thomas Oliphant, the Boston Globe columnist, is back. The Hotline quoted him:
For those who have wondered what happened to my musings
all spring, the official answer of 'on leave' didn't tell
the entire story. So here is what happened. I remember
very little of it, but it's the information I've been
able to piece together thanks to my wife, my kids, and
the others who saved my life. On a sunny Saturday in
March, I was dressing for a drive to the country when I
went over like cut wood. When I came to, I was violently
sick to my stomach with the mother of all headaches...My
memory started to disappear, but I pretended to feel
better.
I will now start quoting The Hotline: "More Oliphant, on suffering the rupture of a brain aneurysm: 'Time and place have no grounding. 2005 suddenly becomes 1953. You're talking about your childhood TV set. And you have no idea who the president is - it really was possible to forget George Bush for a while.' Oliphant writes that his head 'felt like Tom DeLay was inside it swinging a pick ax.' On his recovery, he writes: 'Miraculously, I can concentrate again and finished reading a book last week. Sadly, I now know who the president is.'"
Um, er, you'd think you would simply be grateful to be alive. But there's nothing like coming back with Bush-hatred! That is the passion that can survive anything.
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Jay has a wonderful temperament. He lets the quotations do the talking, commenting with great restraint: "Kind of a shame."
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