It's hate. Period.

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416. There was some crossover vote in '08. I started worrying about it from the first that

I saw stuff about it, "What happens when they cross back?"

Then something that calls itself "the Left" turned against this President rather quickly after inauguration, kicked off by Robert Gibbs's remark about "the PROFESSIONAL Left", people getting paid to think/write what they think/write. I have also seen that Gibbs's remark was directed at the Huffington Post, a putative "Leftie" home where you can see advertisements for $35,000.00 handbags. Huffington Post was also for sale somewhere about the time of Gibbs's remark and, not surprisingly, much of what goes on on the internet and in media in general IS ABOUT SELLING ADVERTISING. Disclaimer: I'm NOT much of an Arianna fan.

This may be a chicken-or-the-egg question as to who drove whom away. I don't know, but I have seen some pretty extreme anti- stuff going on here, set off by next to nothing early on. A more recent response to that has been some equally pro- things going on.

I'm sick of it, sick of the insults and sick of the mischaracterizations of opposing points of view.