Dear Mr. Pitt:
Guillotines can be "eloquent." Yes they surely can. Guillotines for war criminals. Cause you know, I share your sense of "hate." Well it's really more a smoldering outrage but hey, sauce for a goose and blah blah blah.
You brought up Hunter S. and damn, I miss Hunter S.. He'd be having a field day right about now.
Oh well, gone is gone. Not forgotten but gone nonetheless.
You know, Democraps really suck. Democraps suck worse than Republicraps. Wow, same coin with a warmonger's head on both sides. Oh bother, they are surely banal as they are tedious.
Anyway, well stated sir. Very well indeed. Hmmm, t'would seem that now is truly the winter of our discontent.
respectfully,
skulz

The two party system is broken many times over and for decades. You hate to have to work with what you got, because what we got is pretty limp. Not the fundamental principles, but who is there to put these principles into motion and not have them be just some old script of an old document resting in the Capitol Building. Though, if that document had a mind and was aware of what was going on it'd either burst into flames and say the hell with you morons, or it would leap from its glass cage and give a severe paper cut to every single American, including myself, to remind them where it began and where it can go. There are too many of us stuck in the moment without any knowledge of the past or promise for the future. It's all fear, and though it may be a phase, this phase may last longer than we'd like it to. Speak up Obama and Dems, or retire and make way for those who know the language and how to use it.

Anon 19:46: Governor Rick "Good Hair" Perry has rumbled the idea a few times about Texas seceding, but that was mostly for political show. However, I do foresee the Balkanization of the US divided among corporate, political and theological lines. If I could, I'd emigrate off this planet.

I read a report a while back that said the White House press corps' first press conference with Obama was so demeaning and unproductive — with the stupidest of questions being asked, and nothing that allowed Obama to talk about his plans for leading the country — that he has been suspicious of, and unresponsive to, the media ever since. This may be why the administration has had such a poor showing these last two years (to say nothing of the last decade). I have no love for the MSM, but at every turn, it seems our president appears cowed and submissive to the noise, however brilliant his intellect or effective his policies. Who knew? The Democratic wing of the Democratic Party knew. Now, unfortunately, so do the rest of us.

People believe that Obama orchestrated the TARP bailout for good reason. He left the campaign trail and went to D.C. to push it through. This was in spite of the fact that over 90% of those who wrote, called, faxed, and emailed their congresspeople were against it.

Even if Obama didn't design the bailout, he fought hard for it. He also fought hard to increase government power and secrecy, and expand the wars.

What he hasn't fought for, and sometimes fought against: Closing Gitmo. Ending Don't Ask Don't Tell. Single payer health care. Bringing torturers to justice. He even claims the right to kill U.S. citizens without trial, just on his own say-so.

His administration's efforts to stem foreclosures are pathetically weak. And it seems clear that he will go along with Republican plans to cut Social Security, so they can lower taxes on the corporations.

The problem isn't that Obama is doing all these wonderful things for us but isn't getting credit in the media. Tossing us a bone in the form of a small tax break doesn't cut it.

A library named after anilliterate moron.

Now THAT'S irony.

I agree with much of what the author says, however, there is a certain amount of blame to be handed back to The Press! MSNBC does a pretty good job of touting the Obama accomplishments, but this doesn't really compare to the unequaled vile diatribes daily broadcast to voter dupes from the likes of Limbaugh, Beck, Fox et al. Those millions of listeners don't ever listen to anything else and don't want to hear the truth if it smacks them in the face!

Um yeah I agree there needs to be more Obama propaganda about what he has accomplished it so simple exercise google : "dead afghan photos" and post it around town.

Also yeah stuffing yourself full of herion is a good idea as you will be supporting the only effective opposition to the U.S. sponsored slaughter. Seeing that left is so fixated on Bush they fail to hold themselves to the same standards they hold the right.

Oh I forgot all the talk of ending the wars was a ploy to end wars.

The brain dead gutless American voting public is getting exactly the government they deserve.

Forget the needle, my friend. Every time you wield your pen, Mr. Pitt, you strike my heart with glaring truth. Thank you for speaking for me so beautifully.

We cannot change Mr. O'Compromise. Neither can he change himself. He is a compromiser, not a fighter.

We needed a fighter who was fair, just, and honorable. We didn't get one. We hoped he'd change and take up the gauntlet. He won't.

There's little to do about Mr. O'Compromise except lament that he never learned how to beat up a bully in the schoolyard. You'd think "the West Side of Chicago" must have taught him something. Nope. He just doesn't have it in him.

And you cannot blame anyone else for his deficiencies. They're just there.

It also seems as though the topic of electronic voting machines used in almost all of the House elections has been abandoned by the liberal and progressive journalists. As long as Diebold, or whatever it's called these days, produces machines, they will be engineered and cheating will determine the results of elections.

HARHarhar.heh..heh...heh eh. Oh YEAH! Obummer and DEM ARE trying to be so egregious so as, by comparison, to pave the way back for lesser evil JEB and miserepubilkans' re-succession of the Bush Die-Nasty in 2012 D.C. !

It is time to direct your hate properly, it should be directed at your fellow american. One of every two people around you voted for these toolsheds.

Depending on who you speak to, these people are the only real americans, or they're not americans at all.

A nation is defined as a group of many individuals unified by shared culture and purpose. As such, these people who vote for the big red R don't believe in the concept of nationhood, and are working to dismantle it.

They are hateful, to the bone, to the point they don't even care what happens to them so long as the object of their spite, their own fellow citizens and neighbors, suffer horribly at their hands.

The real direction hatred should be channelled is clear, it's just not something intellectuals want to concede because it's much ulgier than the idea of a monolithic enemy.

Obama is treading carefully among the most vengeful and wealthy foes that any man can have. The public is ignorant. If he missteps all the money on the planet will take him out. I watched well funded hate take out some judges here in Iowa and it can happen to anybody because public opinion can be bought.

Dont appreciate the Blind, Deaf 'n Dumb comment. Article notwithstanding. Just be aware of the fact when you alienate those you claim to represent

how many politicians have become millionaires after entering office and by what means did they acquire their riches

261 Millionaires in Congress - maybe it's time for a revolutionary new system for selecting our Congressional representatives and to remove lobby money from the legislative process. We should select representatives like we do our jury system. Not by mandatory service, instead, anyone interested in serving must pass a rigorous competency test. Pay them well, provide free housing and transportation to work. Oh yes ~ monitor their bank accounts for 40 years. It would probably cost the American people a lot less in the long run and maybe then, we would have citizens in office who care about and understand what democracy means. And one last thing, each representative must give an oath to sacrifice for the greater good and dedicate themselves at the same level we have always demanded of our military men and women.

You sound depressed, Will, and although I'm sorry you feel so bad, it might even be a good thing. Because depression can lead to change, and change is what's seriously needed among the so-called progressives on the internet.

The hating isn't working.

The change we need is to outsmart those who are hijacking public opinion, rather than hating them.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

We Didn't STOP the FIRE! Obama, "W", Billary!! What more can Ralph Nader SAY?!!

To Beefeater. After reading Will's article and the many points he makes, you decided to key in on Cindy Sheehan. Rather than respond to the thrust of Will's comments, you chose the easy pickings of a mother whose son was killed in Iraq. (Casey did not, by the way, re-up; he was killed before he would have had that choice. Do you know anything about the promises he received from the Army upon enlistment, the job he was given, or the day he died? If not, I can fill you in.)

I would like to say your inhumanity is shocking, but alas, I've seen too much of this sort of hate in recent years to be shocked. Do you fancy yourself a Christian, Beefeater? Which bereaved mother would Jesus attack?

No matter. Please speak to us equally eloquently about the thrust of Will's article rather than about his few lines about Cindy.

Most of this column I agree with, however, I part ways with my liberal friends when it comes to the Presidential library.

One of the perks of being an ex-president is that you get your own library. I have no problem with Bush getting a library like every other president. That doesn't meant that I don't think that he is a war criminal. He is. He should be in prison. He should be prosequted for his war crimes along with the rest of his administration that participated.

I was one of the first participants in the protest with Cindy Sheehan in 2005. But I am getting to the point where I find the efforts of my friends from that month in Crawford tiresome. I don't find what they are doing, now to be affective, and some cases just counterproductive.

What exactly was achieved by the protest of the library ground breaking? Nothing.

Fireside Chats were an insightful tool for the presidency... keeping pulse while observing whats needed, make a great president... Bambam isn't it.

No, Anonymous on 11/20 at 18:57 - no one should heed your advice or even pay attention to your rant. We Progressives blame the rich for getting rich at the expense of everyone else - in civilized countries it's called extortion and it's a CRIME. You, of course, think that YOU are plying a trade. Not even close. What you do is a complete sham - not quite a crime, but beyond useless. Your legitimacy is based on falseness so that's the nature of the currency that should pay you.