False Equivalence

So, we had psychopathic, ungrounded, irrational anti-Clinton hysteria that began even before he was inaugurated.

Then we had Bush.

If anything, most liberals were way, way too easy on Bush. They should have been in the streets protesting his attempted coup in 2000, but weren't. It took them until the mendacious marketing of the Iraq war to really wake up to his awfulness. But, eventually, his relentless dishonesty, irrationality, extremism and incompetence generated a significant anti-Bush movement, both domestically and around the world.

Then Obama was elected, and again we get psychopathic, ungrounded, irrational hysteria.

The usual suspects on the right are, of course, trying to obscure the facts--opposition to Clinton and Obama is just good, hard politics (politics ain't beanbag!)...um, though, opposition to Bush was "BDS."

Fortunately the more rational conservatives stopped drinking the Kool-aide for awhile during the election, and might not go back to doing so right away. Sensible people won't buy the bullshit...but it'll be annoying to have to hear it from the less-rational righties for the next eight years. The false equivalence is infuriating--justified, proporitonate anger about Bush is no better than irrational, hyperbolic anger at Clinton or Obama. Crazy, man.