Disney's Dubious Path to 9/11

sleepyjeff · 09-08-2006, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

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Hell, it makes perfect sense to me. Clinton was in an environment where every form of aggressive policy action on his part was used as a bludgeon against him. It is only reasonable, especially for a poll-driven political organization like the Clinton White House that this would cause some trepidation but additional such actions.

If only we had a President who just did his job and followed his beliefs no matter what the polls said....

Alex · 09-08-2006, 09:48 AM

I don't think ignoring polls is necessarily better (we tend to want politicians to be poll driven when we disagree with them and to be staunch supporters of their own opinion when we agree with them). Nor do I think that Bush is one who ignores the polls, there are just institutional factors that pretty much force the president to continue misdirected policies even once they become obvious failures.

09-08-2006, 09:48 AM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I don't think ignoring polls is necessarily better (we tend to want politicians to be poll driven when we disagree with them and to be staunch supporters of their own opinion when we agree with them). Nor do I think that Bush is one who ignores the polls, there are just institutional factors that pretty much force the president to continue misdirected policies even once they become obvious failures.
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