I think I need to clarify my point a bit. I think that many times a good leader is the person that overcomes the inertia and gets people moving in a direction. I do no like the direction GW Bush has taken us, but I will grant that he has led us there. It may have been a manufactured problem, but he motivated the people to solve it.
Hitler was a great leader. A sonofabitch, but a great leader. So was Stalin. So was Roosevelt. And, perhaps, so is Bush.
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