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Krugman, as usual, nails it: (via NYT)

For many months we've been warned by tut-tutting commentators about the evils of irrational "Bush hatred." Pundits eagerly scanned the Democratic convention for the disease; some invented examples when they failed to find it. Then they waited eagerly for outrageous behavior by demonstrators in New York, only to be disappointed again.

There was plenty of hatred in Manhattan, but it was inside, not outside, Madison Square Garden.

Nothing makes you hate people as much as knowing in your heart that you are in the wrong and they are in the right.

But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at that convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.

I cite this before mentioning that Bill Clinton is in the hospital with chest pains, looking at quadruple bypass surgery, probably Tuesday. (What kind of clout do you have to have, dammit, to get a doctor to work on a weekend?) Expect the freepers to be cackling with glee. They always have been about as funny as a heart attack, havent' they?