There are a great many of us who hope Obama’s agenda fails, not because of some racial animosity we have toward the man but because we are philosophically opposed to his agenda and truly believe it is a prescription for disaster.
As to Wilson’s comment, study history, there have been much more violent encounters in the hollowed halls of Congress over the past 200 years. Disrespectful, yes? But there have been other outbursts of retoric even more disrespectful and an occasional caning too.
I would suppose he was simply fed up with the administration’s effort to continually dance around the question of coverage for illegal aliens. Wilson, obviously hasn’t found the part of the bill that specifically cites citizenship as a requirement for coverage or government assistance, and that’s because it doesn’t exist or didn’t at that point.
As to GWB, there weren’t additional successful terror attacks against this country after 9-11 and none of us knows whether or not that was due to vigilance, luck or a lack of trying on the part of the bad guys. Even though I’m not a supporter of Bush, I’m inclined to give him the credit for that.
Finally, Jimmy Carter is an asterisk in the history of this country...at least he's the first part of that word!