Most Americans lack confidence in leaders: poll

BOSTON (Reuters) - Seventy-three percent of Americans lack confidence in their leaders and a majority believe the country would be better off with more women in power, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The survey by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the U.S. News & World Report also showed that 66 percent of Americans believe the United States faces a leadership crisis.

The release of the poll comes as President George W. Bush is struggling to stem a slide in popularity caused by the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and soaring gasoline prices.

The nationwide telephone survey of 1,374 adults, taken from September 13 to September 23, covered all levels of U.S. leaders -- from the White House to Congress and state and local governments.

It showed that 65 percent of Americans are upbeat about the future of the country's leadership and expect better leaders in the future.

The poll also showed that 64 percent believe the country would be better off if more women occupied leadership positions, and perhaps surprisingly more men than women believe this -- 69 percent to 61 percent.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/poll_dc

It would hard to imagine worse leaders.

...it all looks up. The reThugs white male power structure has delivered such bad results that ANYONE else looks good. It maybe also be that people are getting tired of war.

perverted the system.

Slowly becasue men have to vote also and becauee they have to give up so much to do it.It is like the old saying that every one needs a wife. Children do get in the way. Look how many women in powerful jobs seem to have no children. Not that children are a thing you have to have but it is one thing most seem to want. Odd as many of these powerful men seem hardly to be like fathers but they do have children and a wife to raise them. It seem to me it is a split in the path of life that is hard to know which one to take for a women.

There are plenty Bushista women that I would not want to see in charge of dog catching, much less of the country.

What I would like to see would be Cindy Sheehan run for something.

but not women like Kay Baily Hutchison, or Condi Rice. We need women of the caliber of Barbara Boxer, for example, or Cynthia Mckinney. There is a Democratic member of the House, Sheila Jackson Lee, who is also very impressive to me. The wrong women are just as bad as the wrong men, as Hutchison and Rice prove.

There IS a crisis of leadership, and we need to start taking more active part in our country's direction. One important way is also the easiest...get out the vote, so that more people participate.

As it is, we don't even have an opposition party, much less one that could provide leadership.

How can we get the Democratic Party moving toward providing leadership, a vision, and actual commitment to its values?

things aren't how they SHOULD be....sad world out there these days...