George Bush Is Not Incompetent

This article, written by George Lakoff of the Huffington Post, on June 26, 2006, takes a very interesting, and non-negative look at the Bush presidency. The author declares that the mishaps of 9/11, Katrina and other events are clearly not the fault of George Bush. 

The author discusses that George Bush, personally, is not a bad president. He even goes as far to say that in some respects, he will be considered a decent president. But the problem lies in his conservative philosophy, not his personal governance. 

"Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush's plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush's "failures" and label him and his administration as incompetent. For example, Nancy Pelosi recently charged "The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader." Self-satisfying as this criticism may be, it misses the bigger point. Bush's disasters -- Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit -- are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/george-bush-is-not-incomp_b_23845.html