Hooray for Bush!

A guest blog from my brother John on some of the good work that our fine President is doing for the cause while in office:

What a difference a year and bad policy make. I remember reading an Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes a year or so ago in which a college professor wrote about how conservative her students had become and how out of touch they found her liberalism. Rather depressing it was. But now, in a contributed piece in the New York Times Week in Review on Sunday, Joshua Foer, a senior at Yale, describes how there has been a shift in students' political outlook as a result of the Bush administration's running of the war on terror. Foer convincingly argues that his generation had not experienced first-hand any of the political traumas that had made older generations suspicious of government. Instead of living through Vietnam, Watergate and Iran-Contra, they had lived through military excursions that they saw as well-intentioned: getting food to the starving in Somalia and stopping ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. If anything, he maintains, they saw inaction in places like Rwanda as the government's not doing the right thing. But Bush's policies and tactics have changed all that. Foer summarizes a growing awareness among his colleagues that leadership cannot always be trusted by quoting statistics from a poll released last month by the Harvard University Institute of Politics: "The percentage of students who describe themselves as liberal has increased significantly over the last year - from 36 percent to 44 percent." Go here to read more on the survey. A bona fide positive accomplishment by the Bush administration at last!