Good Point, Good Luck With That...

http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/historical-significance-and-failure-of.html

"It is the measure of Bush's failure that the destruction of that 'shared public culture' so succinctly summarized by Lincoln, articulated significantly by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and, later, by James Madison in the Constitution, have fallen victim -- not to terrorists -- but to Bush's presumed defense of it."