But you all go ahead and moan and ignore politics and if you are looking for a non-politcal President, you will be looking for a long time. There has never been a non-politcal President.
Help me out here, somebody. Isn't this just another way of saying, "You can't trust a politician"?? I'm just totally amazed that the crowd of people who decried Clinton's "lack of character" now resort to this kind of reasoning when "our guy" shows himself weak. (and I'm not saying I know Dane railed on Clinton, but his comment is representative of many that I KNOW spoke out against Clinton's character and who are now saying something just like what Dane has voiced here)
Now it's asking too much to ask your representative to rise above the average, spineless, prevaricating, lawless, politician and simply DO what he said he was going to do?? What's different between this and something Clinton would do?
The thing that is so aggravating is that to even question this is to risk having one's conservative credentials yanked (and your home foreclosed and your dog kicked, etc., etc.) because you dared to question the brilliant "strategery". Doesn't the adage run thusly, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", and not, "If you want to beat 'em, join 'em"?
And there IS such a thing as people actually changing their minds. Have you NEVER said something in good conscience, thinking you would do something, then later deciding it was a serious mistake?
Uh like selling military secrets to the Chinese, rebuilding the military, not having trysts with bimbos in the oval office, etc. etc.
But Bush is a politician, just like Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Lincoln, etc.etc.