"Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing." I never saw it that way until Kurt Andersen wrote it in New York magazine.

I remember seeing the hateful bumper stickers during the 1992 campaign and believing the haters would be won over as soon as Clinton took over running the country. I was sure they would see how good he was. I couldn't understand why they never changed their opinion. A local Toastmaster kept making me mad by proposing a toast to the office of the President of the United States, pointedly refusing to toast President Clinton himself. It was so frustrating.

When George W. Bush was elected, I was incredulous. I found myself feeling as much hate and disrespect as conservatives had shown toward Clinton. I haven't had a chance, but throughout Bush's presidency I've waited for an opportunity to be at a Toastmasters meeting with that person and propose a toast to the office of the President of the United States—dissing his guy. It's been very satisfying to see staunch conservatives gradually stop defending Bush.

Andersen writes about Clinton that "despite all his sleazoid tendencies, he was, of course, a pretty good president—and he turned out to be an absolutely exceptional ex-president, the best of our lifetimes." I know Clinton lost me when I finally realized he had lied about the Monica Lewinsky affair. However, he was beginning to win me back with his autobiography, My Life, and his post-presidential work. To me, that man's speeches are almost hypnotic. If I'm flipping channels and see him speaking, I have to stop and watch. Obviously others are immune to it!

Andersen continues, "For me and most of the people I know, the postpresidential love for Bill Clinton has evaporated completely and breathtakingly fast. No matter how many mosquito nets and microloans he helps supply to the Third World, I’m out of love."

Remember Barack Obama's infamous RGJ interview in January in which he said that, unlike Clinton, Ronald Reagan "changed the trajectory of America"? Andersen said Bill and Hillary Clinton's reaction to it was a "clarifying moment of disgust" for him. They "distorted and demagogued this bit of plain truth to try to cast Obama as some kind of crypto-Republican," he says.

I agree. Everything Clinton has said since then has reinforced my disgust. Wow! I guess I've become immune myself. And I have to say it's a relief to agree with the right about one thing. Maybe two things, if they're finally seeing how evil Bush is.