If we wanted easy, then we’d all still be members of the Church of England drinking tea and talking about poppycock and all that rot, thanking her Majesty’s ancestor for the wisdom to set those idiot colonists straight. That would be easy. We still could and cite reparations as a right.
Being a leader means having the guts to lead. Sometimes that isn’t easy. Sometimes it’s a fight. If we go by your idea, lets just go home now and be done with it because there is no point in fighting anything. Lets just accept whatever we are told.
And nothing in politics is ever decided -- not even temporarily?
And everything has to end with blood in the streets?
Sometimes you have to choose your battles in politics.
So far as I can tell, Bush stayed out of the Elian Gonzalez case -- maybe because it was a federal matter.
He did what he could for Terry Schiavo -- that was more than other governors might.
Should he have gone further? Maybe he should have, but my point was that it's easy to say things like that if you aren't actually the person responsible.