THE BUSH BASHERS

Something profoundly sad has happened to political discourse in America and nowhere is this disturbing fact more evident than at OpEdNews.com.

There was a time when respect was the keynote in political discourse, the belief being that no matter how divergent your views were from the opposing party, you nevertheless respected him and his opinion.

But not here at OpEdNews.com.

The amount of "Bush Bashing" done at this site by those who despise President Bush, up to the very last minute of his administration, is not only tragic, it is indicative of how debased political discourse has become in America today.

The Bush Bashers I call them, are not motived in the least by sound political thinking, but by sheer unadulterated hatred, pure and simple. Where this hate comes from is a matter of opinion, but I think it’s safe to say that the hate spewed by the Bush Bashers is indicative not only of an inability to articulate a position in a rational and logical manner, but points to a lack of intelligence and deep thinking that is disguised by reckless rhetoric that serves as a smokescreen.

Yet, what the Bush Bashers do for the political climate of America is to denigrate it generally so that it serves more to be the butt of political jokes all over the world and has shown the world that America’s political landscape is nothing more than a cartoon that demeans everything in its sight.

The Bush Bashers are everywhere, especially in the newspapers, on the television networks and on the radio. Is it any accident that the newspaper industry in America today is in a state of financial collapse? Have the Bush Bashers gone so far as to destroy the very platform from which they have spewed their unbridled hatred for the past eight years.

Even that loftiest of papers, The New York Times, stands to fall in 2009 as predicted by a number of financial polls, that once bright beacon of papers that did nothing but malign and disparage everything the Bush administration did.

And now it appears along with the Bush Administration, The New York Times will be history.

Karma, you say? You bet.