Ichy, Ichy, Ichy.....I am not sure George Bush is a great president, I believe he is more honest than the man before him. I think he does what he thinks is right. I believe that is all we can ask any man or woman, that they be honest, and that they do their best.
All you can ask is that he be "honest" and try to "do their best?" In the course of trying to put a silver lining on the dark cloud that is this president, don't fool yourself.
I guess when you choose a lawyer or a brain surgeon you don't ask how competent he is?
Of course you do, you'd rather have a competent brain surgeon that can do good work with one hand tied behind his back than one who does his best but is incompetent. And, as long as you felt he had no reason to want you to die on the operating room table, I'd bet you wouldn't choose the incompetent one over the competent one based on honesty.
Similarly, when it comes to the awesome responsibility for protecting the freedoms and security of this great nation you should "ask" a whole lot more of the president. I'd like him, or her, to be brilliantly, astoundingly competent, intelligent, thoughtful, courageous, and sensical. If he couldn't have those qualities then I'd settle for simple competence and the humility to ask for good advice, recognize it and act on it.
Because when kids are coming home dead, brain dead, limbless and emotionally scarred because of a foolish, doomed-to-failure-from-the-outset, policy of aggression in Iraq, an "honest," incompetent president doing his best has proven a recipe for a fricking disaster.
And, besides, your assumption regarding Bush is erroneous.
Bush is morally wrong. He's morally wrong not because he was initially too stupid to avoid doing the wrong thing; that might have been inevitable considering his poor judgement and failure to comprehend nuances. It became morally wrong, however, when he was too proud and stubborn, or too political, to change course and mitigate the staggering harm promulgated by his failed policy. Ed |
