Says it all for me.
Thank you, Mr. President.
It is a shame that 911 and the loss of so many innocent American civilians is what was needed to wake this country up from the MTV President and his misdeeds.
Sadly, If Americans had overwhelmingly supported President Bush Sr. during and after the Gulf War then perhaps Saddam would have been taken out and Clinton would have lost the election and the past 8 years would have been so different.
Would that be, getting elected?
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If you saw the recent NBC program, "The Real West Wing," then you learned that the Bush administration treats the presidency with the dignity that it rightfully deserves. In contrast to the previous administration, President Bush insists that his meetings and appearances start ON time. He realizes that he is only a custodian of the White House and that it belongs to the American people. He also reserves that sense of honor for the Oval Office.
All presidents have weaknesses, but not all of them suffer from extreme moral failings or serious deficiencies in character. Everybody knows by now that President Bush will occasionally butcher the English language. However, these occasional foibles from an essentially good and decent man have also endeared him to us. They certainly do not reveal a lack of intellect or an inability to lead. We know the man is not perfect, but we are also left with the sense that he is not satisfied with the mediocre.
Americans want to trust, like, and respect their presidents. Despite the circumstance by which he came to office, this president is winning because the public trusts him. They like George W. Bush. They believe him. Moreover, they have come to respect his leadership. Bush’s father also ran a war and had high approval ratings for its successes. But a stumbling economy was his eventual undoing. However, that is where the similarities end. During the Gulf War, Americans didn’t see thousands of flag draped coffins coming home. They could not sense that the war cost us anything. The terrorists changed the way we looked at our president.
We don’t expect that our presidents be perfect; but we like them to try. We want them to be human, but we don’t want them to behave like the family uncle that nobody cares to discuss. We want them to be ordinary; but when circumstances warrant it, we expect them to rise to the occasion and to inspire us to do the same. In a sense, President Bush has become like all of us, only better!
In George W. Bush we see a triumph of function over form.
When the slickster spoke, it was so that the people could see that he understands.
When President Bush speaks, it is so that the people understands what he can see.
Both stood on top of the American mountain, but only W is interested in sharing the unique perspective from the summit. Clinton was more interested in peering down the mountain, focusing on the distance between himself and the "common" American.
I, for one, thank God that we once again have a man of principle to be our principle man (to paraphrase another G.W. - George Washington:-).