Aspen Times Column - A shipwreck

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A shipwreck
Paul Andersen
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
Monday, August 24, 2009

Condemning Obama has become a popular national pastime. It's all the rage to ridicule an administration whose mandate for change is barely six months old. The howling hyenas of talk radio are hungry for the flesh of liberals and thirsty for the blood of reformers. They lost the election, so they clamber for revenge against the entire nation.

There is a hue and cry from the dissolute Right, whose spew of vitriol issues from the sewers of hatred. Their cynicism is a disease far more insidious than swine flu or HIV because there is neither cure nor quarantine for entrenched, irrational bias.

These demoralized obstructionists smugly disparage efforts to correct the damaging legacy that began with Reagan fundamentalism and culminated with born-again Bush. The reform agenda is easy game for poachers with telescopic sights whose vision is narrowed to pinpoints as they squeeze off rounds with glee. Continue reading...

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1. Wow, I thought the DU'ers would really like this column.

Shows how much I know.