--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I would say almost the same thing about you when > someone is critical > of Bush or the U.S. > > Doug
But, Doug, if you read my posts with any degree of attention, you'd be wrong. I have variously criticized Bush Administration policies on a fair variety of fronts. I haven't on Iraq because not only do I think I couldn't do better, I can barely imagine _anyone_ doing better. As for the US - my record of criticisms of domestic and foreign policy (fair ones) stands with anyone. I just look that way sometimes on this list because, to be blunt, anything short of hysterical anti-Americanism often looks like being a far right-winger on this list. Even more so because - unlike a lot of people here - I don't get all turned on and enthusiastic by self-flagellation. It's not my thing, so I don't post as much on those issues. It doesn't make me feel superior to go on and on about the bad things my country did (or might not have done). I take comfort in the fact that politics on this list are, to a large extent, politics inside the liberal echo chamber. Most of the politically vocal Americans on this list are off the liberal deep end compared to the American population as a whole. That's not in the least an exaggeration. President Bush's unfavorables in some polls run around 20%. What do you think the ratio is on this list? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
