President Bush finds the world around him increasingly “unacceptable.” In speeches, statements and news conferences this year, the president has repeatedly declared a range of problems “unacceptable,” including rising health costs, immigrants who live outside the law, North Korea’s claimed nuclear test, genocide in Sudan and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Bush’s decision to lay down blunt new markers about the things he deems intolerable comes at an odd time, a phase of his presidency in which all manner of circumstances are not bending to his will: national security setbacks in North Korea and Iraq, a Congress that has shrugged its shoulders at his top domestic initiatives, a favorability rating mired below 40 percent.
Here’s a shocker…when you’re the Most Powerful Man in the World, things don’t always go the way you want them to- and no amount of whining is going to change that. Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader may find an increasing number of events and circumstances “unacceptable”, but wanting things to be other than what they are isn’t going to make them so. If something is “unacceptable”, then the question becomes what you’re going to do to make them more to your liking? Or does Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader simply assume that his superior moral authority as Leader of the Free World means that people and events should blinldly and unquestioningly conform to his view of the world? Then again, whining about things is certainly a helluva lot easier than trying to figure out what you’re going to do about them, eh?
This is probably where Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader needs to figure out that he could certainly benefit from that special “something” that we look to Presidents for- it’s called LEADERSHIP. Leaders figure out how to create situations that they want to see take place. Leaders exert pressure to ensure that events unfold in the manner they want. Leaders don’t sit back and whine about things being “unacceptable”. If Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader finds something unacceptable, he needs to figure out what positive action he can take, what influence he can exert, or what pressure he can bring to bear to ensure that events become something he finds acceptable.
Perhaps the biggest problem these days is that leaders of other nations recognize Our Glorious and Benevolent leader for the political and intellectual lightweight he is. They know that whatever “leadership” he exerts is little more than smoke and mirrors. They recognize that his glorious war in Iraq has him so hamstrung that his moral authority hovers somewhere just barely above zero. Let’s face facts, shall we? If this Presidency were a patient on a table in an emergency room, it would have been pronounced dead and had a sheet draped over it’s head long ago.
Unacceptable? Yeah, that pretty much sums up this sorry excuse for a President, doesn’t it?
