Lead Like Lincoln
If we only all presidents were as good as the handful of truly great ones we’ve had. Bush has been good and, perhaps, history will even judge him as great. But he has let government get even larger and has done little to directly combat and destroy the liberal agenda. Unlike Lincoln, who used his tremendous leadership ability to hold our nation together and, more importantly, end the evil of slavery, Bush (and most modern presidents) have let the perpetual motion machine that is government expansion, corruption, and intrusion to the detriment and not benefit of our lives grow ever more out of control.
This may sound like a contradiction when many in Lincoln’s own day called him a tyrant. But Lincoln correctly identified an evil and dealt with it. Bust has identified terrorism and has, thankfully, fought it just as strongly as Lincoln stood to hold the Union together and thus end slavery. But Bush has more problems to deal with that he has failed to address successfully. What are the?
For one, Social Security (a “program” the American people have been successfully fooled into believing works and is actually good for them (do some quick math to see how much personal wealth can be accumulated over a working lifetime if one could invest that money themselves). It must at least be privatized fully or destroyed utterly. But of course there are other evils Bush as either not bothered to address or has not addressed successfully: the attack upon traditional values, the attack upon the family, our failure to drill in the Arctic Wildlife Preserve and expand our drilling in the gulf, to expand our nuclear energy facilities, and, for some unknown reason, he has failed to directly attack liberalism as the degrading and dangerous agenda it is.
He is of course not a total flop like Clinton and Carter - and he is vastly superior to his father - but there were so many great opportunities that, unlike Lincoln, Bush missed.
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