Four Years, Eight - Endless Days of Ravaging Presidents

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This one is for Doug. He was one of maybe 2,000 readers who fired off e-mails in response to a recent column criticizing that paragon of political analysis, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III. I excoriated Limbaugh for saying of Barack Obama's presidency, "I hope he fails." As is generally the case when you exact a pound of flesh from Brother Limbaugh's hide, his legions of listeners were vociferous and unstinting in his defense.

They claimed I misquoted him (the quote was cut and pasted directly from Limbaugh's own Web site). They claimed Limbaugh was referring not to Obama's presidency, but to his supposed desire to institute a socialist government (except that Limbaugh was, by his own admission, responding to a question about his hopes for Obama's presidency).

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Four Years, Eight - Endless Days of Ravaging Presidents

Doug, however, made neither of those arguments. His e-mail said in its entirety:

"I see your Mr. Sensitive when it comes to someone saying somethin...

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