What we are seeing is a knee-jerk reaction from America's left. It is okay to be racist or xenophobic if you can give Bush the finger at the same time. The American left needs to look at its priorities, and to listen to Jimmy Carter once in a while. asdf is perfectly right to use Kos as an example; he is an opinion maker and not infallible.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
Czeslaw Milosz