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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52231)	10/10/2004 3:36:25 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Clinton and Rubin did a lot of things on the economic front, some of which you state in your post. But the big difference is that they did it for the welfare of the country as a whole and all of us felt good economically when they did so. Bush on the other hand just left things to others. His being there has added no value and consequently he has failed to show leadership. Take for example the intelligence front. He failed to question and verify the intelligence report. He failed to function as a forum for a second opinion to the intelligence community. That is what his job as President is. You just don't take at face value what the Director of the FBI and CIA tells you. Or else why have a President? You just don't get your Generals together and take their report at face value and make that as a basis for going to war. We know very well that there was a "down the middle" difference of opinion amongst the Generals. What did Bush do in such a situation? Is he not supposed to provide the leadership and make a "informed" decision? If he did, then how did he go about gathering that information to make that decision. Trust but verify is the famous Reagan motto. We don't know he has demonstrated that ability in spite of his being in the White House. I can write a entire book to demonstrate that he is incapable of being a leader. We need a leader in a President with a clarity of a logical thought process and the ability to articulate it to the General public. And Bush has failed miserably on these counts.