James Taranto has popularized the “Angry Left” moniker, and Power Line speaks of the “growing number of liberals for whom liberalism mostly means hate”. One might accuse them of exaggerating. Then one reads this about the man for whom nearly every liberal in America voted in 2004:
On the edition of his program taped in Washington, Bill Maher interviewed John Kerry. In the chit-chat at the beginning of the interview, Kerry said he and his wife had gone to Vermont for a getaway for her birthday. Maher said they could have gone to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone. Kerry's response: “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
Yes, of course he was joking. But that isn’t the kind of joke that a man without a deep reservoir of hatred can utter. I wish that I were confident that the average liberal will be as appalled as I would be if Bob Dole had casually joked in 1998 about assassinating Bill Clinton.
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