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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (30668)	10/31/2006 6:38:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541991

So when he uses the public resources to raise funds for his party, what national policy is he creating? He is enabling himself to implement policies. You can't get policies enacted and maintained without political support. Also the public resources are his transportation and protection. Do you want the president to fly coach without the secret service? Or do you think the job can be somehow apolitical? >> he president has to get support in the other branches to put his policies in place. Only if he does not have the majority in the other branches. Even if he has a majority, that doesn't mean he automatically gains support for his ideas. Also the campaigning is to maintain a majority, which is currently at great risk. I see no reason to think that Bush has cared any less for the people who didn't vote for him then previous presidents. Even if he did, and even if it was clear that he did, "borderline treasonous" is ridiculous. >> He isn't primarily a manager. Not so. The policies and their implementation need constant tuning. Some would call this management. I didn't say he isn't a manager. I said he isn't primarily a manager. He is to an extent a manager, but first and foremost he is a political leader. >> He doesn't have set policies which he is expected to enforce dispassionately. Sure he does. Those are called campaign promises. Campaign promises don't cover everything, and in any case are not set policies. In any case even if you think a president should push for his campaign promises no matter what, to do so he needs to push them in a political way. He has to campaign for the ideas after he is elected, and has to campaign for people to support them. Also the campaign promises are Bush's decisions, not something handed to him that he just has to implement. They are political decisions, which the president makes. He doesn't just get policies from some board or from senior management above him that he is expected to implement, he creates the policies and has to fight for them in a political arena. Even people who's job is primarily management, have to deal with politics (even if its just office politics) and show leadership at times. The presidents job is far removed from pure management. My objection was to actions that are inherently non-policy and not for the country, such as fund raising for his cohorts. If he sees his policies as best for the country, and he needs political support from congress for his policies, then he would logically see campaigning for Republicans as good for the country. Of course this isn't something just for Republicans. The same would hold true for a Democratic president.