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Originally Posted by Jerry Falwell
Why is this even an arguement now? Bush is our leader now, and whether or not he's smart or not. It doesn't do anything for this country if we are not united and willing to follow him. Sure he doesn't make decisions that sway well with many but he has to make the decisions and not you, so he has to carry the burden whether the decision made was right or not. I'm tired of everyone bantering about this, using political labels as if they know 1/4's of what they are talking about.
Bush makes the decisions and he has to go through a terrible amount of pressure and angst before making those decisions. He appears relaxed before us in speeches and addresses but you cannot tell me he's that laid back when faced with a decision that'll effect America. We take Presidents too lightly, and we think that everything is easier for them.
Until we face what presidents face today, we cannot label them stupid, naive, or cold hearted. It's tough being a leader.... If you ask SHAQ how he feels when everyone is relying on him, he'll probably shrug.
I'll go on by saying Bush isn't the best president we've had...I will say nothing about his intelligence or the decisions he's made.
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Color me stupid, but I thought the whole point of a democracy is that the people are supposed to have some say in the decisions of the country. If you think our only role in this country is to walk out and push a button (or pull a level or whatever) every four years and then just sit back and let the President make his "tough" decisions how he sees fit, then I sincerely believe you are one pathetic citizen.
Who said that everything is easy for the President? Who said that they didn't think he was under a lot of pressure?
And at the same time, since when was it a bad thing to put our President under pressure? He volunteered for the job. He's influencing the lives of several hundred million people in the world's biggest economy in control of the biggest military force the world has ever seen. As far as I'm concerned, the tougher we are on him, the better because that will mean he's forced to think carefully and deliberate every option. Ultimately, he's not the one who carries the burden of his decisions. We are. Bush isn't the one who dies if he makes a mistake in the campaign against terrorism. Ordinary, average citizens do. We're not here to have pity for poor little Bush. We're here to try to make sure the right decision is made because, after all, this is supposed to be a democracy.
Therefore, it is beholden to us to watch what the government (which includes Bush and also the Congress) is doing because it matters to us and we can actually influence decisions. If you think the government has gotten completely out of touch and that we don't matter any more, I've got a whole list of examples for you. If we don't know the full picture, that's why we go out and get informed and that's why we have freedom of speech so that we can trade information and ideas with each other. After all, the people in the government are human beings, too, and the whole point of democracy is that the gathered wisdom of many people, in the end, is always better than one single person.
As clichéd as it sounds, we do have a duty to participate in the running of our country. And if some people want to just complain about the fact that we're actuall paying attention to what's going on and letting our voices be heard, it is our duty to tell them to either get involved or else go sit in a corner and be quiet while the real citizens are doing their work.