I appears that one of the more popular activities among the Left and Those Who Don’t Consider Themselves Part of the Left but Certainly Aren’t on the Right is to bash President Bush.  I’ll readily grant that he’s worthy of criticism on a number of issues.  There is a difference, though, I think, between criticizing and bashing, and many arm-chair pundits have crossed that line.  Rather than a reasoned discussion of policies, it has become fashionable to constantly mock and scorn the way he comes across.  Whether it’s comparing him to a chimpanzee, ridiculing his pronunciation of “nuclear”, cackling at his dropping the “s-bomb” in discussions of the fighting in the Middle East, or heehawing at his ranch vacations’ activities, many Bush detractors* have lowered themselves to the level of a third grade bully, and it makes political discourse tiresome and predictable.

* I am aware that there were likely those under Clinton doing the same thing, but that hardly changes anything.  “Well, he did it first” is that same third grade bully’s defense.