We like Abraham Lincoln for --among other things-- the bigness of his heart and his compassionate embrace of all those suffering, with malice toward none, and with his presentation of a relationship with the Sacred that is about finding real justice, and creating a world that fulfills great ideals of equality and liberty.
We like Franklin D. Roosevelt, for his buoyancy of spirit and capacity to envision good order and work effectively to create it.
And in all these things, George W. Bush is completely the opposite.
The honoring of the office requires that we give NO HONOR to this atrocity of a president. This man who has disgraced and damaged his office, leaving us at the very least with the image of a president who cared not a fig for the Constitution and the rule of law, or for honesty, or for compassion, nor for fairness, nor even the slightest regard for the truth. That is emphatically what we DO NOT WANT OUR PRESIDENT TO BE ABOUT.
And if those aspects of the aura of the presidency were thoroughly stripped away --all the moral authority, all the respect, all the deference, that Americans customarily extend to that office-- the president's power would be greatly diminished. The power of the office has a legal aspect, but without its moral aspect the president's ability to dominate the political arena --an ability that now, disgracefully, continues-- would be removed.
This is the way to weaken the president. And thus this entirely feasible stripping from the president that authority he so little deserves would also make other things feasible.
It might then become feasible for Congress to take control of the war in Iraq.
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