[Southack]

"Please give me a President who doesn't act based on what the Media or his opponents may say or do reactively."

You'll get such a President just as soon as you can deliver a voting majority so large that media bias no longer sways elections.

Until then, it's simply unreasonable to expect a President to be the most extreme right or left wing persona possible.

America is far too centrist for such extremism. 35% of Americans are left-of-center Democrats. 34% of Americans are right-of-center Republicans. Most of the rest of that remaining 31% are sitting on the center line.

Our politics reflects that mix, along with the news media's bias.

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[Guillermo]

I don't give the media as much credit for swaying elections as most do around here.

I think America would appreciate a President who stands firmly on convictions and avoids expediency.

Great men are never ones to stick a wet finger in the wind and govern from there. That's why Clinton is rapidly headed to the bottom of the Presidential barrel.

Great men take risks, and tough stances. Taking those risks often involve risking re_election.

Now, Bush did take a huge risk in Iraq, and it will take years to see if it paid off, and he will be judged by history largely in part of what happens there.

Maybe we should go to a one-term limit for Presidents, and term limit Congress, so they will be less apt to act expeditiously.

Machiavelli was right about Democracy. It's a gargantuan monster.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

"America is far too centrist for such extremism. 35% of Americans are left-of-center Democrats. 34% of Americans are right-of-center Republicans. Most of the rest of that remaining 31% are sitting on the center line."

That breakdown, even if accurate, does not apply to the border issue.