In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
George Bush: Bad Dad or President?
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It is already obvious George is confusing being a dictator with being a leader, but now it seems his lies are really a demonstration of his parenting style. He knows best and his children (or citizens) need only know what will make them "better" people.
When his drunk driving conviction became known he annouced that the main reason he never mentioned it was because he never told his children. People thought this was a lie for political reasons, but no, I'm pretty sure it was the truth and that is a sign of his poor parenting style.
Bush has said that parents should not reveal their past errors (drinking, drug use, what have you) as that would be showing your teenagers that that was okay. But that is the thinking of a hypocrite, but hypocracy is a mainstay of the modern GOPer so that makes sense. Wouldn't it be better to tell your teenagers. "Girls, I drank, and I had a problem drinking. I got arrested, my live was basically a failure, etc. etc." The truth would be an effective means of telling them not to drink. It is pretty obvious now that Bush's method of parenting, at least about this issue, was a failure.
But this method is also how he "leads" as a President. Why didn't he tell people about the dangers (obvious as they were to anyone there I hear from friends who were there) of being in lower manhattan? He didn't want to scare people. It was important to the nation that Wall Street open, and he didn't want to risk people not showing up. People LIVE downtown. They should be told that the dangers were at least unknown.
Here's the truth. If he told people there may be dangers but asked people to sacrifice, for the sake of the nation, most would have. Americans and New Yorkers would have, and felt all the better for it. But Bush thinks he knows best, so he doesn't bother with the true.
Which brings us to the lies that will bring him down: Why we went to Iraq. We went to Iraq because his people told him that it would be easy. That we could set up such a wonderful democracy that all the other Arab nations would fall in line, peace would spread threw the world, and all our children would become smarter. But if he told us that that was his reason, we the people would probably have disagreed, and he couldn't risk that, so he lied. It was okay for him to lie, because he is Dad, and father knows best.
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