noteworthy wrote:

When a politician makes likability a substitute for authority, his opponents make hatred a substitute for opposition.

Bush is *not* the president we deserve. Sure, there are a lot of people who don't consider "football hero" to be an oxymoron. Even they don't deserve to have their civil rights trampled on, to be lied to at every turn, to be forced onto the conservative right's fascist agenda.

This editorial seems to me to be a perfect example of how out of touch NYT editors can be.

-janelane, I deserve better

RE: The Vanishing