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Is George W. a stong leader?

Is George W. a stong leader?

Does he inspire unity and cooperation?

When the voter during the second debate asked President Bush to name three mistakes he made as president, George W. displayed one of his greatest short commings - his inability to recognize flaws in himself, even when they are obvious.

In the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. pledged to restore more civility to American politics. Surely one of the mistakes that President Bush should have acknowledged to the voters question was that he had failed to achieve this pledge. In fact, he has made the rancor and political unrest much worse than at any time in modern times. Not since the American Civil War has there been more political unrest in America.

His failure to accomplish this is a clear indication of his inability to be an effective leader. His approach has done the very same thing with many people throught the world. Look at the reception he received when is addressed the U N last month - Dead Silence. The only applause came when he was about to leave the podium. It was as if their applause was to reflect his departure not at what he had to say.

The left in America hold George W. in distain. Most Democrats, if they are honest with themselves, will be voting aginst Bush more then for Senator Kerry. Their feelings are not because George W. is a Republican but because of his attitude and his total rejection of any positions that do not fit with the wishes of the conservatives. The right is just as bad or worse. People like Rush Limbaugh spew out their narrow minded positions at every opportunity. The conservatives can not complete a sentenence without blasting the Libs. They have only slightly less distain for the moderate Republicans, like myself. If you do not support the conservative ideas you are stupid according to profit, Rush! He claims that he ties half his brain behind his back to make it fair to the Libs. The truth is that if Rush had a brain twice its size, he could not complete a rational thought.

President Bush's answer to the question, name three mistakes you have made should surely have included his inability to bring cooperation and civility to American Politics. George Bush is strong but he is NOT a leader. A leader is one who has the ability to get people to go to a place they would not go by themselves. That is not George W. Bush. For that reason alone, America needs a change. We do not need another four years of devisiveness. We need a true leader that can unite America and enhance cooperation with the other nations of this world.
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Reply #51 By: dewey (Anonymous) - 10/28/2004 7:58:44 AM


Plan? What plan? There was no plan. That's the point.


To you there wasn't any. But do you honestly think that the rest of the people (Joint chiefs of Staff, The Secretaries of the Navy, Army, Air Force, etc.)
would go in without somekind of plan? What am I talking about Of couse you believe that or you would not have posted it. Sheeple.



I think you can understand that Bush didnt just sit down one afternoon and come up with a plan all by himself, he had the help of his generals and advisors. Just because one man didn't agree with Bush's decision doesnt mean there weren't others who did.
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Sorry drmiler...there was no plan for securing the country. That's plainly obvious today. What there was plenty of was misunderstanding, miscalculation and misrepresentation of the problematic realities an invasion of Iraq would create. Sure he had help in making the decision to invade, but he listened to the wrong people. And the people he didn't listen to had it right all along. If this man were the head of my marketing department he'd be out on his ass. Guaranteed.
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he shoulda had a plan...according to mickey herskowitz (who signed on with the 2000 bush campaign in 1999 to ghostwrite bush's autobiography: 'A Charge to Keep'  in advance of his anticipated run for the presidency, thus providing herskowitz with unimpeded access to bush)...“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999. It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.”


in other words, bush had 2 years to plan prior september 2001 and another year after that.