The Black Republican

Come get some "moral motivations" over at The Washington Times:

Go back and read that Wall Street Journal quotation again. Mr. Bush gets a lot of grief for his supposed self-certainty (often attributed, usually disparagingly, to his religious beliefs). Yet what you see here, on the contrary, is a man who sees a "philosophical argument," which is to say, a contest with at least two sides. His presidency is "stimulating a debate" over the spread of democracy by trying to spread it. He is aware that there are those who say "Bush is wrong." He doesn't in turn say they are wrong. He says, "I assume I'm right" - which is to say, he will act in accordance with the conviction "that the philosophical argument of the age" will be resolved in favor of the spread of democracy.

Doesn't it make you wonder about people who say, "Bush must be malicious or stupid!" Like him or hate him, the fact remains George Bush knows what he's trying to do. Perhaps those who disagree with his agenda - and get so angry as a result - are frustrated by their own inability to grasp that agenda. Or perhaps they instinctually understand it means the end of their control of the situation, and marks the beginning of their slide into obsolescence.

Or perhaps... both.