Reply #10: This was me.

[zipplewrath]

I hoped he would "succeed" in the sense that, much like Clinton, if he just stayed out of our way, and didn't screw things up too much it wouldn't matter all that much. Clinton wasn't a liberal by most definitions and I figured if Junior was like his father, it could only be so bad. After 9/11, I didn't like much of what he said, but I figured as long as he followed the Powell doctrine and moved ahead like his father did, we'd get through the thing. But with each decision, and each step, he got worse and worse. He wouldn't listen to critics in his own party, much less Blix or any of our "old Europe" friends. Heck, he didn't even really listen to Lap Dog Blair. It wasn't that I wanted him to fail, it's that I didn't see how he could succeed.