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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98957)	2/6/2005 4:03:34 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793725

Thus the vacuum was filled with "ask yourselves why do they hate us?" bleating from the far left, which simply infuriated everyone from the center-right to the far right. Yes, but I still think he should have reached out. At that point in time there were still lots of liberals that were reachable. What he ended up doing pushed the liberals if not into the arms of the loony left, at least into the arms of the Bush haters. It's not hard to answer the bleat with "they hate us because they're oppressed, ignorant, and brainwashed and lashing out at our success and we can best deal with that by modeling democracy and success in the ME" rather than "they're just evil, you moonbats." The former is respectful of the "they hate us" instinct but turns that bleat into something constructive, something that they would have bought, had they not been shut down instead.