Newsweek: "Bush is largely incurious about the world"

"D-Day's Real Lessons
War leadership takes more than resolve and rhetoric. What Bush could learn from Churchill and FDR about his own fight."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5040844/

"Despite the administration's claims, there is still no convincing evidence of Iraqi ties to terrorism; no weapons of mass destruction have been found; we have not been greeted as liberators, and more Americans have died in Iraq since Bush prematurely declared victory aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln a year ago than had died there before. So the president has a learning curve to master, and he should start with the Great Men of the Greatest Generation—or else he may face Churchill's political fate, defeat at the polls in the wake of a war. Bush has read the right books, from Martin Gilbert and William Manchester on Churchill to Michael Beschloss, James MacGregor Burns and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. on Roosevelt. Whether he has absorbed the lessons of such works is another question."

"Bush eschews complexity; FDR and Churchill embraced it. Bush prefers to decide, not go into details or revisit issues; FDR and Churchill were constantly examining their own assumptions and immersing themselves in postwar planning. Bush is largely incurious about the world; FDR and Churchill wanted to know everything."

"Bush, however, likes his decisions quick and clean. "Let me tell you, in life you've just got to do what you think is right," he told foreign journalists in the Oval Office in the fall of 2001. "That's what a leader does. Leaders take a position not because of some poll or focus group; they should take a position on what they think is right and suffer the consequences. That's what a good leader does."

He prefers to decide, not go into details?

Is he consulting the magic 8-ball? Or is it purely his "gut instincts" that have gotten us into this nightmare?

http://www.wgoeshome.com

Not HIS guts I'll bet. Maybe he sacrifices a chicken & reads the entrails?

he's obviously using a Oiuja Board

unless he only asks questions that require a yes or no answer. I can't imagine Shrub being able to keep track of message being spelled out letter by letter.

The hell you say!

When's the fearless leader going to start?

they can't handle complexities. Their brain can function with things in black and white.

What's their excuse? (Just wondering...)

define things as "right" or "wrong", "black" or "white", etc.

Very much an unrecovering substance abuser.

with this "incurious" shit since day one. Bullshit. He's not incurious. He's dumber than a brick. He's always been dumber than a brick.

incurious is a choice and it's his responsibility. Dumb isn't, and in that case he can be seen as a victim. Rove prefers dumb.

That's what a meglomaniac does. A good leader confers, studies, reflects,
listens, creates consensus. Then he/she acts, and takes responsibility
for those actions.

Bush has been a grownup infant--being taken care of and bailed out by
others--all of his life. He knows nothing about leadership.

HAll he needs now is his pampers!

YES!!

That's the perfect name for him.

Now we have the uncurious Chimp.

Graphic anyone?

That's is ONE HORRIFIC thought.

George was busy learning his leadership skills torturing and killing frogs

Is the term "incurious" a euphemism for stupid? It must be because curiosity is an early sign of intellectual giftedness in children.

I find it amusing at best that he is given a pass on being "incurious" as if it is a quality that does not matter for the office of US President!!!

On a personal level, have you ever in your whole life known a bright person who is also "incurious?"

:wtf:

What in the hell does he know about what a good leader would or would not do?

Another puff piece camouflaged as a critique. Attempts to give the false impression that Bush reads books about famous leaders.

He doesn't read anything below a headline. If that.

They preserve comfortable fictions and they ignore the obvious.As an example of the first,we can take Bush reading anything, his PDB's or books.As an example of the second, they never question how he could not have known what was going on at Abu Ghraib when it was he who gave the orders.On and on it goes.

:eyes:
Not that we didn't already know this though. Still pretty sad that there are actually people (voters) who perceive simple-mindedness as a virtue. :(

"Intellectually incurious." You know what that means? It means "fucking stupid." There, I said it.

I can't respect a President who doesn't respect me, or other human life out there--our sons and daughters, people not so fortunate as to be Americans....

"Fucking stupid." Remember that. Remember it for all time.

"Stupid as a sack of tire tools."

Alternate descriptions of mental status:

"One taco shy of a combination plate."

"Crazy as a rat on acid."

(Love those folksy Texas sayings.)

. . . innocuous to the world.

Bush, however, likes his decisions quick and clean. "Let me tell you, in life you've just got to do what you think is right," he told foreign journalists in the Oval Office in the fall of 2001. "That's what a leader does. Leaders take a position not because of some poll or focus group; they should take a position on what they think is right and suffer the consequences. That's what a good leader does."

:nuke:

He believes that his "decisions" are divinely inspired and infallible. Even if it's a hasty decision, a snap-judgment, an ill-informed foolish choice... he honestly believes that he can do no wrong.

He is an idiot. A certifiably insane idiot.

This whole administration is insane!

It's a fucking mad house! A MAD HOUSE!

-- Allen

The icefloe is shrinking rapidly...

"That's what a leader does. Leaders take a position not because of some poll or focus group; they should take a position on what they think is right and suffer the consequences. That's what a good leader does."

And the consequence is getting his booty kicked out.

Kick.

A good leader researches the facts and takes advice from experts. Digging your heels in the sand and demanding your way with no argument all the time doesn't work for leading anything past a 3rd grade kickball team.

"Leaders take a position not because of some poll or focus group; they should take a position on what they think is right and suffer the consequences. That's what a good leader does."

Why does he talk down to everyone? Or is he just trying to convince himself he actually knows what he is talking about? His condescending way of "explaining" whatever crap he is pushing,at any given moment, is really beginning to grate on my last nerve. He talks like the idiot he is and people fall for it. Plain spoken my ass!

...having to witness the suffering of families who have lost loved ones in Iraq. Having to bear the burden of witnessing their suffering. Having to be out on the campaign trail and look at some mother sobbing over the son or daughter that was killed in Iraq. You've seen it in press releases...you've heard him talk about "terrible loss" and "brave sacrifice" and every night he's in bed at 10:00 as usual, oblivious to the world around him and totally in alignment with God for his good works and living in God's will and divine purpose for his life. Sleeping peacefully like he doesn't have a care in the world. Because he DOESN'T.

And that's the scary part. If anyone here truly believes that he gives a flying fuck about ANY of that, step up and be heard. Equal time for all.



Because...this useless motherfucker who has not attended ONE funeral of any fallen U.S. soldier...PROBABLY believes that all of the above is true. That those ARE his consequences.

Seriously...it sounds ridiculous to anyone with a rational mind, but take a moment and visit the "Presidential Prayer Team" Web Site if you have any doubts. For anyone who cares, the scripture refernce in their banner is "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance." Perfect scripture for Crusader Bush.



http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/

kings and popes. You know, those ones that make you want to kick yourself in the face?

A leader examines all sides of an issue and with the aid of advisor's determine a path to follow until something turns up to cause one to rethink their position. That is what a leader does. Bush* is no leader. Never was a leader and never will be a leader. It is not in his makeup. He does not possess an analytical mind. He fits the definition of Conservative to a tee. Close minded and not willing to change views or compromise.