Your statement sums up Bush pretty well. I've noticed that about him also.
Thanks for writing and posting your essay.
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%That's why I voted a write-in vote for Alan keyes. I remember the debate between Bush, McCain, and Keyes. Bush and McCain were demanding companies produce medicines at various prices. Keyes blasted out, "What about involuntary servitude in this demand?" Beavis and Butthead laughed it off and drowned him out. But Keyes' first REFLEXIVE impulse was to demand accountability. Nobody is going to pull any stunts without serious questions on his watch.