hypocrisy knows no bounds

here's a question- could be viewed as rhetorical i suppose but i'll throw it out- why is it that when bill clinton was president there wasn't a day that went by that someone on the right wasn't throwing a bomb at him and his administration- but now when the left is critical of the current regime- we are all supposed to put up and shut up? i have noticed that there is very much an attitude from the right of 'we're in charge now and are going to stay that way so go away' and quite frankly it makes me mad. i was by no means a clinton groupie and i don't think that he was all that great of a president. it had zero to do with his zipper- he just didn't do a great job. he was a bit hobbled by the repubs in congress- but hey that's the way the system works- checks and balances don't ya know. i am tired of feeling alienated in my own country and i think that that is why i fall into the trap of lumping everyone on the right into the loud mouthed, yelling, bigoted, corporate loving, mean spirited stereotype. i would love to be proved wrong- and indeed there are thoughtful people who will open dialogue- but so far most of the places i have looked have hammered the stereotype home. i have tried to find a right leaning blog that doesn't call all people on the left crazy or un-american or just dismisses us altogether-unsuccessfully. i have tried to foster an openess on my blog that welcomes discussion and tries not to bash people personally. i have found less than a handfull and i link to them at this time. i am telling you right now that i am angry about this because i am not going to go and live in france and i am not going to put up and shut up when almost half of the country i live in is trying to take my life away from me. i am going to fight as hard as i can to expose the ignorance and the simplistic notions that these people live by and try to set an example that the left can go by.