"The Weakness in the White House: The President"

[nosmokes]

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"The Weakness in the White House: The President"

ne of the many reasons for the failure of the American intervention in Iraq is George W. Bush's character as a leader. Every executive has a leadership style -- a way of conducting the entire decision-making process, from considering alternative policies, through deciding among them and having them executed, to assessing policy outcomes. The current president's leadership style is ineffective and impairs the rational pursuit of national interest, however that is construed.

A strong and judicious leadership style of the American chief executive is necessary for the effective functioning of American state power. There are simply too many conflicting domestic and transnational interests for the executive branch to mediate to leave resolution of policy to subordinates, each of whom represents some particular interest-complex. The buck does stop at the Oval Office and does so all too frequently. In order to combine the functions of mediating and resolving successfully, the president must be sufficiently knowledgeable about policy implementation to assess its effectiveness and flexible enough to make calculated adjustments when consequences dictate. The Bush leadership style fails on both counts.
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[burrowowl]

1. Thanks for link

to an interesting site.

[nosmokes]

3. sure thing.

pinr is one of my favorite resources for a straight-up informative account of whatever the situation is. their reports on the sudan situation were timely and excellent.

[dArKeR]

2. I think the problem is that 'they' give him 12 hours a day training on how

to walk, facial expressions, talk, and read and he has no time to concentrate on America's needs. Why doesn't the 'Liberal Media' get some tape of aWol's walking and facial expressions from 5 years ago, 4 years ago... today, and compare them? He now walks and gives facial expressions like a fraternity football jock with a stick up his *ss. If I'm the only one who's noticed this than for sure our nation is finished in 20 years.

[PROUDNWLIBERAL]

4. Who Runs the Government

It would seem that Bush II and Reagan were both out of the loop when it came to running the Government. A few, right-wing ideologist screwed this country and the world becuase of lazy itellectual leadership displayed by Reagan and Bush II.

[ixion]

5. no, I noticed it, too, darker

I remember thinking what an uncultured, inept idiot he appeared to be as he would stroll across the rose garden in suits that wore him, walking like a nervous thrid grader with a blank or goofy expression on his face.

You can still see that in his mannerisms, despite the polish. It's almost like he thinks he's putting on a school play or something.

Very embarrassing on the worldstage, IMHO.

[Miss Authoritiva]

6. Is this really true?

"With the decline of neo-conservative influence, the president's ear is now up for grabs."

Who would Bush turn to if/when he turns away from the neocons? And since one of Bush's mantras is loyalty uber alles, is he even capable of getting rid of these people?