John F. Kerry recently referred to Bush's policy as one of "too often belligerent and myopic unilateralism".

Meanwhile, Sr. VP of DaimlerChrysler, Frank Fountain said that conservative critics of Jesse Jackson have a "myopic view of the world."

As someone who suffers from debilitating myopia that has kept me in eyeglasses since I was two years old, I am horrified at the insensitivity. Myopia sufferers already have to live a lifetime of pinched noses, and eyeglasses that never seem to be clean enough. Not to mention that screws are always coming loose and that gravity is constantly (and perhaps cruelly) tugging spectacles further down on your nose. As if suffering from all that isn't enough, now we have to be on the butt end of liberal analogies.

Sure 'sources' like Miriam-Webster and Heritage say that myopic can mean 'to hold a narrow view'. But in today's day and age, I am upset that liberals, of all people, would spread vicious stereotypes about people with a serious medical condition.

If we aren't allowed to use words like niggardly anymore, I think myopic should be taboo as well.