Very fair comments so far.
I guess I was simply impressed by the extracts of his acceptance speech I saw on TV. John Howard, the conservative Prime Minister who was also recently returned in a mirror of the American election, made some very good comments in his speech. To paraphrase him, he said that he realized that as the elected leader of the country he not only had to govern for those who voted for him, but also for those who voted against him.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; I don't think Bush is a "bad" person. I obviously disagree with a lot of his politics, sometimes on a fundamental level, but I'm quite certain he is doing what he believes is right. I think he is sometimes led astray by the chickenhawks in his Administration (like Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rove and the ex-Tennet) but that doesn't change my optimisitc belief that, like most people, he does what he honestly thinks is right most of the time. I'm also aware that what he thinks is right is exactly what others may think is wrong, but that doesn't change the underlying precept of my suggestion here.
As I said, I hold out hope that this will turn out to be the case. To be perfectly honest, I was a little bit surprised and disappointed by the general triumphalist reaction of some of this board-member's reactions to his victory, but I guess everyone is human and every dog has its day.
Fingers crossed. He has a lot of responsibility. Let's hope he acts responsibly.
Mr Mephisto
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