Bush surrounds himself with excellence. That is the mark of a great leader.
Although I am loathe to make yet another comparison to Clinton, the contrast is striking. Look at the pack of yoyos Clinton with whom surrounded himself. They were there for one reason: to make Clinton look good.
Clinton's cabinet always reminded me of the Freak Show at the Circus.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
LOL. I can't help but remember the first time I saw Clinton march into some event with his Cabinet. Short, fat, ugly...they looked like the folks from the Star Wars bar scene. They were selected for just those visual qualities.
Dee Dee Myers, Stephenapoulos, Cohen, Albright, Reno.... the list goes on and on!
If you need people around you to make you look good, could we say you have a serious ego, character, and behavior problem. None of these apply to our present President. I hadn't really thought about it until you mentioned it, but it speaks volumes. Our President is daily castigated for his attention to exactly what the country is in need of.
He remains steadfast in the face of constant badgering by utter fools who would throw us and the country literally under the bus (not sure who came up with that one but it sure is descriptive).
How he is able to remain the cool collected man that he is, while facing unending adversity, is no mystery and is far more than I would ever be capable of. They would cart me off in a straight jacket the first time I failed to suffer fools with a straight face.
Too bad there are so many squeaky wheels in the presidential press briefings, that Tony has to deal with on a daily basis. There is a lesson there for all of us about the caliber of men in the Bush White House. Oddly enough there seems to be a rather normal death rate among friends associates, acquaintances and members of this administration.