Bush Bashing Nothing More Than Cheap Shots

There is a vast difference between bashing critical appraisal. There is no question there a lot of issues where Bush's feet can be held to the fire and no one is questions people's right to do so.

The Intellectually Stunted Practice of Bush-Bashing

To put it bluntly, I have little use for Bush-bashers. Their song is old and tired. Their mordantly indignant tirades serve to degrade, not only the office of the president, but the intellectual stature of Americans in the eyes of the world.

While there is always room for genuine, thoughtful, intellectual debate, debate that supposes solutions over rhetoric, Americans have grown tolerant to the small-minded practice of Bush-bashing. If there is anything that reduces the image of Americans around the globe it is the stunted, acerbic, bullhorn mentality of America’s Fifth Column and those who join in their caustic idiom.

--Frank Salvato

~The Story