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Symposium: The Left's Hatred of Bush
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 15, 2004
President George W. Bush has created the most diverse administration in human history; he has passed and signed the largest education bill ever (which was, incidentally, written by Ted Kennedy); he has created the largest new social entitlement in 40 years; he has liberated 50 million Muslims from the grips of fundamentalist, fascist regimes. Yet the Left foams at the mouth and declares, "Anyone but Bush." It doesn't even like Kerry. It just wants "anyone but Bush". Why? What lingers behind this hatred of the American President?
In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we have invited two members of the Left to duel with two members of the Right. Joining our distinguished panel today are, from the Left:
Joshua Frank, the author of the forthcoming book, Left Out: How Liberals Did Bush's Work For Him. He is also a contributor to Counterpunch's new book on the 2004 elections, Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils. He currently lives in Albany, New York;
and
Robert Jensen, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He styles himself a “critic of the U.S. empire” and is a member of the board of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center;
and from the Right:
Elinor Burkett, a former leftist whose travels throughout the Muslim world made her change her ideological views. She is the author of So Many Enemies, So Little Time. An American Woman in All the Wrong Places;
and
Daniel J. Flynn, the author of Why the Left Hates America and of the new book Intellectual Morons : How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas.
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