shakran

That's the crux of the problem right there. It's bad enough to have a president who doesn't want to hear opposing opinions from his advisors, and who won't read the newspaper or watch any TV news. That puts him in a bubble right there. It's worse when he doesn't understand that he's in the bubble.

When I took a week's vacation to hike all over Glacier national park, I didn't see a newspaper or a TV for 7 days straight. No internet either. I was in an isolation bubble and I knew it, and it damn near drove me nuts. And it drove me nuts when the biggest decisions I had to make that week were when to have that granola bar.

But, as we saw yet again in the NBC "exclusive" (exclusive if you count the fact that Fox got a day like that too) interview they broadcast the other day (that was a piss poor piece of journalism, btw, but that's for another thread) Bush happilly admits that he doesn't try to read or watch the news. He admits that he's in the bubble, without realizing that he's in the bubble.

THAT is the scary part - that this guy doesn't KNOW he's in the bubble. He thinks surrounding himself with yes-men and then believing everything they tell him is an acceptable way to get the facts which he bases his decisions on.

Well, 30,000 dead Iraqis and 2,000+ dead americans, plus countless wounded on both sides later with still no enhancement in our national security, should show us that this is NOT the way to govern.

Bush cannot make a good decision, except by a stroke of luck which has yet to strike, without good information. That's understandable, but what is not understandable is that he keeps running away and hiding from that information.