CBN News - "Misunderestimated": A Battle Ahead for George W. Bush :

"Robertson: But why do they hate Bush so badly?

SAMMON: That's a great question. I actually asked the President that, because he granted me a number of interviews for this book. And so did Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and Karl Rove, et cetera. I think the best answer came from Condi [Rice]. She said, 'They hate him because he's achieving things.' I mean, it was one thing to sort of resent the President when he got into office, the liberals said, oh, he stole the election, but he's such a lightweight, we'll be able to get rid of him in four years. But once 9-11 happened, and the President started to wage wars, and win wars, and cut taxes, and really reshape the geo-political landscape, the liberals started to resent that, because he was actually having successes. And so instead of just, you know, tolerating the guy, they actually began to hate him. And it's manifesting itself now, as it's time to see whether he's going to get another four-year term.

So see how this works? Terrorists hate us because of our freedom, and liberals hate Bush because he is so good.

ROBERTSON: You compared him to some of the great presidents of our history, John Adams, et cetera.


SAMMON: Well, there was an eminent democratic historian, from Yale University of all places, who actually said that George W. Bush is one of three presidents, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who have instituted 'grand strategies,' is the way he put it, in our U.S. foreign policy.

He is talking about John Lewis Gaddis, who is a top historian, who did argue that Bush was visionary. That doesn't make it right, of course, and historians are often bad at predicting the future. Of course, had he lambasted Bush, he would be pilloried.

And all three of those were in response to surprise attacks against U.S. soil. The burning of the White House in 1814 by the British, Pearl Harbor, and then, of course, 9-11. And in response to 9-11, that's when Bush fundamentally changed our foreign policy to one of pre-emption, as opposed to one of containment, which we had been doing. And so even the democratic historians are crediting him with being one of the three most influential presidents in our history already."

See how one democratic historian becomes "the democratic historians?" Talk about a misleading sentence. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised since Sammon is a Fox reporter, but this is unbelievable.