History Repeating

[manasecret]

To go more general, I can respect people who believe something and can back up their belief with good explanation and facts.

I can not respect people who believe something despite having many facts and explanations fly in the face against that belief. That turns into belief without reason.

Case in point (remember I'm generalizing), my father is a horrible driver. Everyone that has every ridden with him (and I mean everyone) has thought so. He is oblivious to the world and everyone outside of the car when he drives, which is not a good thing when driving.

Yet he still believes that he is a good driver and that everyone else is wrong or out to get him or just harping too much. But when everyone tells you you're a bad driver, at what point do you stop and think -- hey, maybe I am a bad driver, maybe I should change how I drive.

I can't respect people who can't stop and think that, hey, maybe I'm wrong about this thing I believe -- or that thing I believe -- or even this belief that goes to my very soul and I am SURE I am right about. Even the deepest held beliefs should be questioned.

Bush doesn't do that. Or as far as I can tell, for the majority of the time he doesn't do that. I don't have explicit examples. So maybe there are examples of times he has. But my guess is the times he hasn't questioned himself outweigh the times he has.