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but Bush is about the most self-sabotaging person we have ever had as president. It would be one thing if this affected only Bush, but what he never seems to have realized is that by abandoning his leadership position, he threw all the rest of us to the dogs.

Exactly. It's all very well to be "nice," and help your enemies, and turn the other cheek if you are a private person. But if you are a public official, and especially THE public official, you have a duty and an obligation to protect your country and its citizens from evil. Bush just doesn't seem to get that. Yes, he has tried to protect us from al Qaeda, but he has done little or nothing to protect us from our internal enemies who are subverting and corrupting all our institutions and undermining everything he has tried to do.

As for Fitz, sure, he goes after a few Democrat pols when he is told it's OK to do so, because they're being thrown off the back of Daley's sleigh. But he isn't going to go after the big guys--Daley, Obama, anyone he is warned to lay off of. It was typical that he gave immunity to the real Plame leakers so they could help him get Scooter Libby on a technicality.

But if you are a public official, and especially THE public official, you have a duty and an obligation to protect your country and its citizens from evil.

This has always been the duty of a Christian leader. One of the problems is that Christianity got transformed into mush, where the main duty of a Christian leader was to be the first out the gate with an apology to the oppressor. Bush comes from that stream of Christianity, which unfortunately is the dominant one nowadays.

“As for Fitz, sure, he goes after a few Democrat pols when he is told it’s OK to do so, because they’re being thrown off the back of Daley’s sleigh. But he isn’t going to go after the big guys—Daley, Obama, anyone he is warned to lay off of. It was typical that he gave immunity to the real Plame leakers so they could help him get Scooter Libby on a technicality.”

I agree.