First, a sincere thanks for the way you have approached this thread. I know that it can be difficult to approach things from a factual/non-emotional standpoint when the subject evokes such strong emotions, so again, thank you.
I personally go back and forth on this issue, but it also occurs to me that I can only personally think of 3 other presidents that I have an adult understanding/experience of. Were things really that different for Johnson? Or for Roosevelt? Or for Taft?
I don't know.
I don't hold it against any president that surrounds himself with like minded advisors; I mean, do you really go out of your way to find people to disagree with you? I suppose other political systems where cabinet positions are filled according to the precentage of votes that certain parties get in elections have some merit, but I haven't seen that they are functionally any better.
No, I think it gets back to the man Bush and how he perceives the world. Bush definitely decides on a course of action and then sticks to it. Again, I can see advantages and disadvantages to such sticktoitiveness.
I do note that Collin Powel was definitely a free thinker and that he left of his own accord. I also have heard reports that there was quite abit of in-fighting and marginalizing between him and other staff members.
Well, for better or worse, in one more year we won't have to worry or be happy about Bush in the White House.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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