[marron]

A real leader doesn't follow public opinion, he creates it. He generates it by making his case and then forging ahead.

His opponents, at some point, must simply salute the flag and fall into line, or find themselves irrelevantly talking to themselves. This is what is happening with Canada. The same thing is happening on a host of other issues where Bush has taken a position which was initially widely opposed, and in the end becomes reality. The Russians grit their teeth and support the end of the Anti-Missile Defense treaty. The Euros send troops to support Bush's wars. Eventually they will even stop mumbling about the Kyoto Treaty that even they won't sign, but never had the nerve to reject publicly as Bush has done.

Chirac is calling Bush trying to bury the hatchett, and no doubt worrying about what ledger entries the intel boys are going to find in Baghdad with his name on them. The Germans will fall in line under Polish command, or be side-lined completely. You have to admit, it is delicious.

For the President being such a moron, it is interesting how again and again his enemies dance like marrionettes on Bush's string.

[gcruse]

For the President being such a moron, it is interesting how again and again his enemies dance like marrionettes on Bush's string

Just to be the devil's advocate for a moment, a moron armed with
a machine gun in a crowded room can get his enemies to dance all day
long.  It doesn't make him any less of a moron.