Tag: Derangement
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How Will History Judge Bush?
A few months ago, a friend started a conversation with the words, “now that George Bush is generally agreed to be the worst president in history…” I have no idea what she said after that, as my mind was reeling. I silently edited the statement: “Among partisan Democrats who ignore Warren Harding, George W. Bush […]
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The Perils of Blogging
Like many (most?) bloggers, I crave a bigger audience, and I thought I had found a gambit that might tempt James Taranto to link to me from his “Best of the Web Today.” Yesterday’s BotWT included one of his “Wannabe Pundit” items, quoting a journalist taking a pot shot at the Bush Administration in the […]
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Next Up: Obama Derangement Syndrome
As I was writing yesterday about Bush Derangement Syndrome, Pajamas Media was preparing to post an article by Neo-neocon entitled “Avoiding the Clutches of Obama Derangement Syndrome.” Sage advice, as usual: Yes, there are reasons to fear that Obama has a far left agenda, based on his history, some of his own statements, and his […]
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Bush Derangement Syndrome and the Surge
Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary, does the best job I have seen of chronicling the sordid history of liberal opposition to the surge. For paragraph after relentless paragraph he replays the mockery from the left, from before the surge even started until long after its success was clear. Anti-surge rhetoric died down only when even […]