Politics of Personal Destruction

Democrats whine about it when someone tells the truth about them, calling it "the politics of personal destruction," hoping we'll forget that they are MASTERS of it. "Recently, Democrats called for unity and an end to the politics of personal destruction against our new, shared President-elect Obama. So let us hope that New York publishers will now refrain from publishing any more foul novels like Nicholson Baker's 'Checkpoint,' whose characters debate the wisdom of assassinating George W. Bush. Let us also hope that when Barack Obama is nearing the end of his term, filmmaker Oliver Stone does not offer the electorate a damning mythic film called 'H.' that emphasizes the wild college days of President Barack H. Obama when, decades ago, as he freely admits, he used both hard drugs and marijuana." If they REALLY hate "the politics of personal destruction," you'd think they would stop using it. (IBD)