The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds

clipped from pajamasmedia.com REID’S “EVIL” MOMENT: Remember when polite society treated a politician’s use of the word “evil” as a sign that the old boy was dangerously lacking upstairs? We saw it in 1983, when Ronald Reagan famously used the word in a speech to describe the Soviet empire. What a rube! New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis spoke for the smart set when he wondered what Soviet leaders must think: “What confidence can they have in the restraint of an American leader with such an outlook?” We saw it again in 2002, when George W. Bush characterized North Korea, Iran and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as an “axis of evil.” he accused those protesting President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals of being “evil mongers.” And then . . . nothing. No thundering rebuke from the New York Times. No outburst from Mr. Carter. But the people he was calling “evil” were opponents of the Democratic agenda.

And I do mean little.