#6 Mike Sylwester

Re: Bush’s apparent disregard for people’s concerns and his opponents arguments.

I’ve often wondered if Bush’s refusal to communicate his agenda with the American people was a result of his distaste for Clinton’s poll focused “leadership”. We watched for 8 years as Bill followed no particular idealogical wind but went wherever the polls told him the American people wanted to be led, and found it repulsive. I sometimes wonder if Bush’s detachment wasn’t a backlash against such “leadership”. His attitude seemed to be, “I’m gonna do what I think is right, and you can run a poll on it in 2004 and we’ll see what you think at that time”. McCain may have gotten the bad end of that polling here recently. Not that he communicated that effectively either.