Someone needs to define "hate" here. Julie Krueger (is it all just anger?) ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] lit-ideas] Re: Daily Kos: State of the Nation Date: 2/11/2007 11:20:14 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _omarkusto@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: *First, I am not sure that I would want to judge a person on a single passage - Mickey Z. might be an extremist but I don't know him well enough to be sure. More importantly, I am not sure that hating the United States as a state is necessarily a mark of a lunatic - hating all Americans would be but I don't think that Mickey Z. hates his wife or himself. At least, it is not something that I would take for granted as Brian seemingly expects us to. There are plenty of people in the world who hate America, and they are not all leftists. Personally I don't think that I hate America, at least not most of the time, but if I were an Indian or Black or Iranian or Iraqi I might find some of the reasons mentioned in the passage more emotionally pressing. O.K. From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:50:00 +0900 Personally, I see a nutcase. Comparable on my side of the political spectrum to those we call "wingnuts" on yours. If either of us infers that these are typical examples of individuals on the opposite side of the aisle, we ourselves are becoming seriously delusional. ______________________________________________________________________________ ______ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html