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Re: Another slightly out of context remark...
Speaking of context, perhaps you’re not aware of a Fox News poll conducted in August 2006 and available online at http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/FOX_230_release_web.pdf.
I refer you to Question 10:
“Regardless of how you voted in the (2004) Presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed, or not?”
Democrats: 40% Yes, 51% No.
Does it ask if they want his policies to fail? No - they wanted him to fail. So spare me the angst and outrage over Conservatives wanting Obama to fail in his efforts to socialize the United States. Just keep those hanging curveballs coming.
posted by
WriterofLight
on March 22, 2009 at 12:38 PM
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Another slightly out of context remark...
RE What James Carville
actually said:
"What’s the only relevant line from Carville Sammon quoted. Carville’s comments were made at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on the morning of 9/11, before the attacks.
The Monitor’s Dave Cook, who runs the breakfasts, has audio of the event, and he transcribed the relevant comments and emailed them to me. Carville was asked if Bush was politically vulnerable. Carville replied:
People basically like this president as a person and they want him to succeed, but they have some pretty serious doubts that have not crept in but are sort of there. You have almost half the country saying he is in over his head. Over half the country saying he is for the powerful. And as much as I would like for it or wish for it, they are not going to pull away completely from him months into his administration.
I don’t care if people like him or not, just so they don’t vote for him and his party. That is all I care about. I hope he doesn’t succeed, but I am a partisan democrat. But the average person wants him to succeed. It is his country, his life or their lives. So he has that going for him. There is a lot that is going to happen between now and next November. It is not that people don’t like him. It is not that people don’t want him to succeed but it is also not that he doesn’t have some serious underlying problems.
It’s clear from that context that Carville was talking about his own desire for the President to fail politically, in terms of getting votes for himself and his party, not in policy terms. Carville went on to say that average Americans want him to succeed substantively, which he said was a political boon to Bush."
That's the actual transcript of the article, including italics. Carville obviously wanted Bush to fail in his re-election and political ambitions. Rush wants Obama to fail as President!
posted by
VanArsdale
on March 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM
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