[Rick Norwood]

I am saddened about the degree of hate in the posts above. I am new to this forum -- I followed links here from slate.com. I am a liberal -- by which I mean what John Locke meant by "liberal". I believe that all men were endowed by their creator with equal rights. But I also think that on at least ninety percent of all issues, liberal and conservative Americans agree. For example: I am a patriotic American, I am a Christian, I believe in courtesy and kindness, I believe in honesty, I try to follow Christ's teaching and love my fellow man. If I am right about this -- if we agree on most things and disagree on relatively few -- where is all the hate coming from?

[Arrowhead1952]

I am saddened about the degree of hate in the posts above. I am new to this forum -- I followed links here from slate.com. I am a liberal -- by which I mean what John Locke meant by "liberal". I believe that all men were endowed by their creator with equal rights. But I also think that on at least ninety percent of all issues, liberal and conservative Americans agree. For example: I am a patriotic American, I am a Christian, I believe in courtesy and kindness, I believe in honesty, I try to follow Christ's teaching and love my fellow man. If I am right about this -- if we agree on most things and disagree on relatively few -- where is all the hate coming from?

Here is one question I have for you. How can any Christian go to church on Sunday and vote for a democrat on Tuesday?

The hate you are talking about here is nothing compared to the hate of the left for conservatives. Just listen to the likes of Algore, hillary, kerry, dashale, kennedy, etc. They can stand on any stage in any city, scream at the top of their lungs and take jabs at Bush or any of his staff. The national media will cover for them every time.

One Republican can say one negative thing about a liberal official, and the entire media jumps on their case. What do you think happened to Dr. Rice during the 9/11 commission hearings? Do you think if that had been a black, female democrat and the Republicans had attacked her that the media would have give them a pass? Not just no, but hell no.

If you really want to see hate on a website, go to the DU site. If you are offended by four letter words, forget that site. Another anti Bush site is the MoveOn.org which is funded by the Bush hating Soros. He, michale moore and most of the hollywierd crowd has the market cornered on hate. Just listen their rants. Also, in case you missed it, there was a right for choice march in DC this weekend. Did you see any of the signs the so called women's rights marchers were carrying? Abort Bush, and the like. Talk about hate, there was so much hate at that rally the devil must be proud today.