Writing in the New Republic, writer Jonathan Chait argues that he and many of his fellow liberals don't just think Bush policies are wrong but are actually consumed with hatred for the President:
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I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. I think his policies rank him among the worst presidents in U.S. history. And, while I'm tempted to leave it at that, the truth is that I hate him for less substantive reasons, too.
He reminds me of a certain type I knew in high school--the kid who was given a fancy sports car for his sixteenth birthday and believed that he had somehow earned it. I hate the way he walks...I hate the way he talks...I even hate the things that everybody seems to like about him....And, while most people who meet Bush claim to like him, I suspect that, if I got to know him personally, I would hate him even more.
There seem to be quite a few of us Bush haters. I have friends who have a viscerally hostile reaction to the sound of his voice or describe his existence as a constant oppressive force in their daily psyche. Nor is this phenomenon limited to my personal experience: Pollster Geoff Garin, speaking to The New York Times, called Bush hatred "as strong as anything I've experienced in 25 years now of polling." Columnist Robert Novak described it as a "hatred ... that I have never seen in 44 years of campaign watching.
So there you have it. A writer for the number one self-avowed mainstream liberal magazine in the nation admits that he and many of his fellows actually hate the President.
Not just disagree with him, but hate him.
As such, we have to ask ourselves, who are the extreme partisans here?
