The tragic stubbornness of George W. Bush

[TwilightZone]

Admiring portrayals of George W. Bush always expose, inadvertently, what's wrong with him. "Steady leadership," the theme of his 2004 re-election ads, was a case in point. Bush has always been too certain to admit error, too steady to turn the wheel when the road bent, and too preoccupied with principle to understand that principle wasn't enough. That was his downfall in Iraq. It's also why he pushed through his 2001 tax cuts even after the circumstances that originally justified them vanished.

Now the former White House aide who coordinated the formulation of Bush's stem-cell policy has published an account of how the president reached his decision. The reporting is new, but the story is familiar. Once again, the case for Bush is the case against him.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2182667

[ananda]

1. Tragic for whom?

Seems the Bushes are doing just fine...

Many millions of others are not.

[UTUSN]

2. You said it for me. The tragedy is OURS!1 n/t

[TwilightZone]

4. That's the point of the article.

[TwilightZone]

3. Tragic for anyone affected by his stubbornness.

That's the point of the article.