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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (9955)9/30/2003 9:46:56 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793622
 
The problem with Brooks' column this morning is twofold. First, as he acknowledges, he doesn't take proper account of his own lack of commentary on this phenomenon when Clinton was president. But since he acknowledges that, it's not too serious. But the second problem is that because he doesn't take account of the right wing attack dogs, he misses the full extent of the problem. And, in my view, the worst manifestations. That is, in the right wing stuff there is, most wickedly manifest in Coulter, the notion that political opponents are not quite human, or the other side of some duality, rather than folk who hold different views of how politics should be organized.

I think a good deal of Brooks' complaint is hollow, as well. Most of the criticisms of Bush are standard issue political criticisms of any president. What Brooks has done is try to take the most extreme examples and paint every one else in those colors.
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