Hi Chinu,
You are a centrist too? That does surprise me. Do we mean the same thing by the word "centrist", I wonder. Litmus test: is the New York Times a centrist newspaper?
I am not saying Bush is a liar. I am saying that he is not up to the job. He has brought in folks (after a President should do that) who ate a bunch of crooks and they are out there manipulating the system, Rice and Powell are the exception. To me Powell and Rice would be a dream ticket, even though both are Repubs.
Curiouser and curiouser, you like Powell and Rice - even though Rice is well to the right of Powell. She wrote pre-emptive war into our National Security strategy, remember? Rice has been functioning as a kind of liaison between State and DoD.
As for "Bush is not up to the job," I say, stop kidding yourself, you will only help the Republicans. Bush may not have a brilliant or intellectually curious mind. He may be inarticulate and speak in a folksy way. This does him no particular harm with most American voters, quite the opposite - W has the common touch that his father lacked.
Morever, W is a sharp and focused politician who knows how to limit his goals to the achievable, and achieve them. He has assembled a very strong and tightly run team. If you measure Presidencies by the percentage of measures that a President proposes and then gets passed, W is having a successful Presidency. He knows how to collect political capital, and how to turn around and invest it again.
You may like none of his proposals, but you really should stop saying it's because "Bush is not up to the job". That's a delusion, and a delusion of great advantage to President Bush. |
