Speaking Of Failure

There's another interesting report surfacing now that is especially applicable to the how-can-anyone-possibly-want-the-president-to-fail argument.

Even more enjoyable than that 2006 poll Patterico dug up showing 51 percent of Democrats hoping Bush would fail — two raging wars notwithstanding.

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."…

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!"

The press followed Carville's orders, never reporting his or Greenberg's desire for Bush to fail. The omission was understandable at first, as reporters were consumed with chronicling the new war on terror. But months and even years later, the mainstream media chose to never resurrect those controversial sentiments, voiced by the Democratic Party's top strategists, that Bush should fail…

"The difference between Carville and his ilk and me is that I care about what happens to my country," Limbaugh told Fox on Wednesday. "I am not saying what I say for political advantage. I oppose actions, such as Obama's socialist agenda, that hurt my country.

What's that again, Democrats?  You're now shocked -- SHOCKED -- that anyone could possibly be so viciously mean as to suggest that they want the President to fail?  Um...hello??

Oh, that's right...the rules are different for Dems and Reps.  I keep forgetting that tiny, insignificant fact.

Of course, Carville changed his tune instantly when the news came down, but was that because he actually changed his mind, or because he was politically savvy enough to realize that what he had just said had suddenly turned politically radioactive?  Don't break anything as you think that one over.

I'll go on record again in support of Obama's failure: I hope he fails, too.  Obama is not America, so it is completely ridiculous to equate Obama's failure with America's failure.  In fact, I'd agree with Limbaugh that it's just the opposite: Obama's failure is to America's benefit, and Obama's success is the death-knell of America as we know it.

There's my two cents.