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We elected one leader, its ashame we can't follow his lead.

He doesn't know how to lead.

Remember how after his SOTU address in 2005 he said that after his re-election, he would start spending his political capital? He blew it all on a half-baked Social Security reform plan and his continued capitulation to the Mexican government on border security and immigration. What finally jolted me out of giving him the benefit of the doubt was his selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, and the way the administration went after bonafide conservatives ("snobs," "elitists") when we objected to him handing over the most coveted seat in the Judiciary branch to a personal counsel that had never held a gavel in her life.

And as I have written before, I don't believe he lied about WMDs, but he sure did lie to us about Rumsfeld.

"He doesn't know how to lead."

I rest my case... I wish the world would work the way I wanted too - but I don't have the benefit of seeing the whole picture. We get our news and information from websites, talk-radio, and news channels, none of which has a direct line to the folks that make decisions. Everyone talks and the words begin to reverberate, and a sort of perceived truth forms, because we hear the same thing from multiple sources.

The Iraq war is a mess, global warming, drilling for oil is bad, the Bush administration is corrupt, on and on. In order for websites, and new channels to get ratings, and exist, they must draw attention to themselves. People actually believe 100% of what they read and hear without a shred of proof. I'm not saying that everything we hear and read is false, but have a little faith in your own judgment to pick leaders that hold the same principles as you do, and then have some trust in their decisions. And no, the choices aren't going to be perfect, but to abandon those leaders we chose we abandon our own principles. I wish everyone could see the world the way I see it, but it ain't going to happen. But I'll be damn if I throw out my principles by bad mouthing those I voted for, and not trying to gain a larger majority.

SS reform was probably the most interesting idea I've ever seen come out of Washington - too bad the American people couldn't see through the crap and Congress had no gonads.