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In all the discussion about Bush's usurpation of power that is in conflict with the Constitution, there seems to be this wild assumption (long since proven wrong)that he's a competent, wise, compassionate, intelligent, infallible leader.
This is a man who has led us into an unjustifiable war which has left not only America, but the entire world in worse shape than when he first decided to wage it.
This is a shallow self-absorbed man who says his vacation time is more important than his job, and who boasts that he doesn't keep up with the news. And worse, brags that he partied his way through college and gets to live in the White House anyway.
This is a man who has clearly put money before people, and friends before constituents.
He has ruined the county's economy, its future, its reputation, its pride, its military, its natural resources, its cities, the hope of its poor, its elderly, its youth.
Of all the people in all the world...why would anyone consider it a rational point of discussion to suggest that he should have absolute power?
No president, no one individual has, or was meant to, have supreme power. That's the way the framers wanted it...that's the way Americans want it. And for good reason. The men who hashed it out in Philadelphia so long ago must have seen George W. Bush coming.
