] For many months we've been warned by tut-tutting
] commentators about the evils of irrational "Bush hatred."
] Pundits eagerly scanned the Democratic convention for the
] disease; some invented examples when they failed to find
] it. Then they waited eagerly for outrageous behavior by
] demonstrators in New York, only to be disappointed again.
]
]
] There was plenty of hatred in Manhattan, but it was
] inside, not outside, Madison Square Garden.
]
]
] Barack Obama, who gave the Democratic keynote address,
] delivered a message of uplift and hope. Zell Miller, who
] gave the Republican keynote, declared that political
] opposition is treason: "Now, at the same time young
] Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the
] mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart
] and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession
] to bring down our commander in chief." And the crowd
] roared its approval.

[ Krugman weighs in. -k]