HOPING FOR BUSH
I'll question their patriotism. Every patriotic American hopes that a new President will do well, that his policies will mean good things for America. I watched Clinton's inaugural speeches in 1993 and 1997 with that hope. I watched Al Gore's speech at the Democratic Convention in 2000 with the hope that he could be a good president if elected, even though I supported his opponent.

In last night's debate, the waffling and schizophrenic General Wesley Clark, who can't make up his mind on whether it was right to liberate Iraq, showed his patriotism in hoping for the best from the American President. Explaining why he praised the Bush Administration in 2001, he said "I could still have hope in early 2001 that this administration would learn its lessons, as most administrations do." (Of course, he could have been even more honest and just said that he was a Republican then). Soon to be former Sen. John Edwards showed his complete lack of patriotism and extreme partisanship when, right after Bush's inauguration, he didn't have any hope. And I'm barely paraphrasing: the quote, "I did not have hope for President Bush." Heck, he just wanted the new U.S. President to fail, I guess. Do we really want such a pitiful cynic in the White House? Thankfully, even the Democrats don't want Edwards.