Tom Tomorrow also writes:
…we took a lot of lessons from 9/11, but it occurs to me that there’s one we might have overlooked–when you attack a nation, people tend to rally around their leader, even if they hate him.
This is true. I’ve often thought that, had the September 11th attacks not happened, there would have been serious talk of Bush’s impeachment. It may never have come to anything, but his involvement with Enron and toadying to the demands of corporate America make something like Whitewater seem like small potatoes. I think, at the very least, his approval ratings would have taken a substantial plummet. After all, it’s not as if he’s actually done anything for the nation.