Bush, the Active/Negative President - A analysis of his 'style'

[debbierlus]

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060421.html

The increasingly dangerous President....

Some snips:

Because I am the Daddy:

Recent events provide an especially good illustration of Bush's fateful - perhaps fatal - approach. Six generals who have served under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld have called for his resignation - making a strong substantive case as to why he should resign. And they are not alone: Editorialists have also persuasively attacked Rumsfeld on the merits.

Yet Bush's defense of Rumsfeld was entirely substance-free. Bush simply told reporters in the Rose Garden that Rumsfeld would stay because "I'm the decider and I decide what's best." He sounded much like a parent telling children how things would be: "I'm the Daddy, that's why."

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Bush the 'Risk Taker'

Active/negative presidents are risk-takers. (Consider the colossal risk Bush took with the Iraq invasion). And once they have taken a position, they lock on to failed courses of action and insist on rigidly holding steady, even when new facts indicate that flexibility is required.

The source of their rigidity is that they've become emotionally attached to their own positions; to change them, in their minds, would be to change their personal identity, their very essence. That, they are not willing to do at any cost.

Wilson rode his unpopular League of Nations proposal to his ruin; Hoover refused to let the federal government intervene to prevent or lessen a fiscal depression; Johnson escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam while misleading Americans (thereby making himself unelectable); and Nixon went down with his bogus defense of Watergate.

George Bush has misled America into a preemptive war in Iraq; he is using terrorism to claim that as Commander-in-Chief, he is above the law; and he refuses to acknowledge that American law prohibits torturing our enemies and warrantlessly wiretapping Americans.


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[napi21]

1. It's too damn bad Dean is a felon. I've NEVER voted for a Pub

in my life, but i could vote for HIM!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I fear that October surprise

If there is another "terrorist attack" I have no doubt it will be MIHOP to shore up Bush's popularity/or give him an excuse to declare martial law.

[debbierlus]

3. They certainly did very well with the last one they set off