[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I wasn't aware that popularity was the deciding factor on whether a person's ideas and ideals are right or not.

Nice try. It's not about ideas or whether they are right or wrong in these cases.

It's about sour grapes, jealousy, frustration and all those very unbecoming traits that are hard to hide.

Please don't pull the "What's wrong with criticizing the president" line either. There's nothing wrong with honest criticism.

However, those who have tried in vain to sit where George Bush sits today and failed, have an ulterior motive for practically everything they say. Last I checked, none of them did a thing to improve my life or yours.

[Lumberjack]

Not to pick a nit, but would you have discounted any of Ronald Reagan's criticisms of the Carter administration in 1977 as sour grapes (assuming he made any, I honestly don't know, I'm just asking as an example)?

And more to the point, wheter Browne is pulling sour grapes or not, the question is, does he make some valid observations and criticisms about the Bush administration? I'd say; yes. And my assertion has nothing to do with him being a Libertarian or member of any particular political party. It has to do with him being right.

When you loose the ability to critisize your own, you may as well throw in the towel. Its over. The Cult of Personality mindset will be in place, and nothing that the person in questions says or does will ever be questioned.

You know, I used to wonder how Germans could follow Hitler in 1932 and up through 1936. They were smart, educated, technical, worldly, and still they followed.

Now I know.