An e-mail:

Whoa, not to put a damper on the Rangel/Pelosi conservative love fest, but there’s a correlative prohibition to the one that says you don’t come to our country and call our president names. It’s the one that says our former leaders don’t go overseas and criticize our president—especially while we’re at war. I’m glad Rangel and Pelosi criticized Chavez, but I don’t recall them chastising Carter for going overseas repeatedly and accusing President Bush of misleading us into an unjust war; or reprimanding Gore for going to Saudi Arabia and telling them that after 9/11 we committed ”terrible abuses” to Middle Easterners. And which comments do you think were more damaging to America? Chavez’s comic book rantings in this country or the statements of a former president and a former VP on foreign soil?