Nordlinger!

This is from Jay Nordlinger's always enjoyable "Impromptus" column:

"Okay, I’m at a newsstand yesterday, and I see the new New York magazine. It has a portrait of Obama, with a bunch of epithets written into his face, and it says 'HATE.' The point of the cover is that this poor president is the target of widespread and oppressive hatred. I couldn’t help thinking, 'Have they no shame? Have they no sense of irony? Did they live here from January 2001 to January 2009? The hatred directed at our current president is practically a kiss compared with the hatred of those long, nasty, toxic years.'"

Read the whole column, as it's full of interesting observations.