Interview with a Leftie.
Well, yesterday, but it still counts. I was meeting some friends for a quick dinner between shows, one friend of which is your a-typical ill-informed but amiable lefty, only too capable of criticizing the President via parrotization of the Times, but as one would expect, incapable of offering any alternative positions.
But, that's fine. I can turn off the politico lobe of my brain with such people. Nod. Smile. Whatever.
But I can cringe. Oh, believe me, I can put on a face few can mimic without eating a bowl of lemons. I was well on my way to preparing one when another friend brought up the topic of Bush's visit to Iraq. Then, the aforementioned amiable lefty piped up with:
I don't like the guy much, but that was a good thing to do.