Okay, not only do I have to put up with three more years of a president I can't stand. I have to put up with being called a "whack-job" on national television by some pundit named Chris Matthews. From the November 28 edition of MSNBC's Hardball:

MATTHEWS: I like him. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left -- I mean -- like him personally.

Hey, Matthews, I'd tell you exactly what you can do with your asinine opinions, but this is a PG blog. Or, well, here:

MCGALLIARD: I just hate him. There's just something about him -- his voice, his face, his gestures -- I mean, personally, he really gets up my nose. Everybody sort of hates him, except for the real crazoids, maybe on the right -- you know, those people think he's God or something. But normal people hate him.

Quick quiz, tell me the difference between my quote and Matthew's quote. Okay, there are two. Number one, I'm not on national television. Number two, I freely admit I am just making stuff up. I mean, it's true about me hating Bush, in a visceral way that applied even before he was president and had done anything to make me hate him in a more principled, informed way. The guy just bugs me. He always has. But I don't think that's necessarily the norm, even the norm among people who hate him now, although it's certainly common. Whatever it is that makes some people like him personally (I claim, pure sociopathic smarm. You know, people liked Ted Bundy, too, except for the people who were creeped out by him) makes other people hate him personally.

And I really don't appreciate being called a "whack-job" on national television by some talking head goober who's never even met me.