Criticize the President

Yesterday’s quote was from Teddy Roosevelt. It’s reproduced again so you can see it.

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

I support President Bush in that he’s the President of the US and if there was something I could do to help the country, I would. I don’t believe he’s intentionally trying to hurt the US and I was glad to see him send troops to Afghanistan in 2001.

However I think he’s been a little absent from his duties over the last few years and has not managed the country well. He has not led us, and while he has been resolute in Iraq, he has not done a good job ensuring the country had a steward that was looking out for it and it’s people.