Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail (www.foxnews.com)

The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail.

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.

Wow, on the morning of 09-11-01. Is that bad timing or what?

So as some confidence in Obama is just beginning to drop, the media (and even the President himself) is ganging up on a private citizen, Rush Limbaugh. The fact that top government officials are going after a private citizen is bad enough because our tax money pays those people, so we’re paying them to attack private citizens. That’s just wrong. Politicians can’t even campaign on government time or risk jail time.

Rush’s response here is right on:

“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.

“I deal in principles, not polls,” Limbaugh added. “Carville and people like him live and breathe political exploitation. This is all a game to them. It’s not a game to me. I am concerned about the well-being and survival of our nation. When has Carville ever advocated anything that would benefit the country at the expense of his party?”

Obama thinks the stock market is a poll. No, Mr. President, that’s our money. So he still doesn’t get economics or even understand how things work.

Downright scary. Hold on tight, people.

-Tony