But now that it's happened, there is reason to rejoice. In very few countries that have been through a month such as we have, could citizens say such a thing. There are just too many of us doing too many good things for that to happen. George W. Bush is certainly the stupidest, laziest man to be elected president since Ronald Reagan, but we survived Reagan, and I am certain we'll survive George W. Bush. There are plenty of ways to be lucky.
Some people are lucky enough to be arrested for driving drunk, before they kill someone.
Some people are lucky enough to be sent to prison. Some people are so lucky that their faithless wife or husband leaves them. We don't always know it's luck, but there are lots of ways to be lucky. The presidential election appears to be over, and no matter what party we belong to, or even if we belong to no party, all of us have been lucky. Robert Kahn is a North County Times staff writer.