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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (453767)2/3/2009 2:24:34 PM
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Competent presidents ignore them on major issues, as Bush did. Hamilton wrote about the emotions of the moment in the Federalist Papers.

One problem with your supposition.......Bush wasn't competent nor particularly concerned about what was best for the country.

Obviously, the decisions to go to war or not cannot be accommodated by a polling process. Bush did what 75% of citizens wanted in March of 03. Later, these same people changed their tunes, but it isn't possible to get a "redo" on going to war.

Polls are meaningless in the context you so often try to use them -- i.e., to Monday-morning quarterback.

The polls were so important to Bush that he got the member of his cabinet most trusted by the American people to lie for him in front of the UN.
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