WHY THEY HATE BUSH

“As one of those W.-hating liberals/Leftists for whom you seem to have so much contempt, but also as someone who acknowledges that the “He’s a moron” argument “is not one of reasoned opposition,” I want to offer my take on why the liberal/Left hates W. so much. Pretty simply, he was the guy whom we hated in high school: rich, blandly good-looking, unstudious, and popular. We resented that while we were the ones doing all the studying and music-making and painting, he was the one who got to go to the cool parties and who got the good-looking girls. We consoled ourselves with the thought that someday the scales would balance. Now he’s been elected president, just about the most symbolically resonant position in the world, and it’s hard not to take his election, and his popularity, as a national rejection of the choices we made to be good girls and boys. As it turns out, the rich, blandly good-looking, unstudious, popular kid still gets to go to the cool parties (and his wife is kinda hot too).” – well that’s one candid view from an emailer. For more feedback, check out the Letters Page today: a new batch from the smartest readers on the web.