For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is there anything new or unpatriotic about wanting the president and/or his policies to fail?
It is an indisputable, historical fact that many Colonists did not support independence from England, and were hoping with all their heart and all their soul that President George Washington would fail. Less than a century later, likely half the nation hoped President Abraham Lincoln didn’t succeed in defeating the Confederacy. The argument today is that wishing ill upon President Obama is unpatriotic because of the fragile condition of our economy — but it is a metaphysical certitude that Washington and Lincoln presided over a much weaker nation than what we are facing in 2009.
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