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To: Bridge Player who wrote (60755)	4/22/2008 1:20:42 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

Doesn't leadership involve eventually convincing your followers that your policies are correct and worthwhile? Bush's approval has gone almost straight down since the 9/11 peak. He is "leading" fewer and fewer people all the time, and accomplishing less and less thanks to his lack of political capital. His tax cuts could be reversed in a flash, the Iraq venture could be wound up and there is no lasting conservative majority to carry on his policies. A potential road to nowhere.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (60755)	4/22/2008 1:35:39 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541824

Bridge Player; Interesting. Perhaps you found it quite normal, and laudatory, for Clinton to stick his moistened figure up into the wind each morning, to see which way the polls were blowing that day. Well it's better than what else he did with that finger! Bush had perhaps the all time high rating after 9-11. He could have done anything with that kind of public support. That he choose to use it up in Iraq and a failed economic policy that has shaken the very foundation of our economy is a legacy he will have to live with. He failed - that he doesn't seem to care is what mystifies me. .....That doesn't mean I think for an instant that leaders should follow polls. Let me put it to you this way. ...."You are vulnerable and your wife opens with 4 hearts and equal distribution and 12 points and no one else has bid yet". What would your conclusion be? steve