On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."
Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.
"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I'm wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted.
The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: "They don't want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails."
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I'm not sure why this is a big deal for people. Why should it surprise us if we want our political/cultural/idealogical opponents to fail? we want our policies to prevail. it irritates me when conservatives gripe about liberals not supporting President Bush--why would they (the best argument we can make it to turn their tolerance gospel on them and show that all preachers of that faith really stand on principles against our own)? And it's irritating to hear bone-head liberals do the same (again, they should practice tolerance). People with a shred of intelligence can and should only be patronized so much. The common notion of "unity" in America is so utopian it's absurd. Let's unify! Over what? This zombified unity mantra is what leads to our wonderful "level the playing field" policies, a religious zeal for relative truth, and an evolving morality that only unifies us outwardly in an attractive shell. Inside, it's soulless and dead. It's impossible to go lower than a culture's lowest common denominator. How much has that elevated past civiliations? Christians especially should want to unify only on God's truth as revealed in the Bible and we should be willing to suffer for it. Mainline Protestant churches are a good example of selling the farm for unity at all costs. "I have not come to bring peace, but a sword..." (Matt. 10:34-39) Sorry, I'm just sick of politicians. Rush said it well recently, "How stupid does he [they] think we are?" Apparently the answer is either "very" or "stupid enough" since we just elected this clown and his circus of imps.
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