Mr. Bush had wars to wage, first against Al Qaida, then Saddam Hussein (not to mention Afghanistan, and potentially Iran or North Korea if he had his way altogether).
Therefore Mr. Bush lied to Congress as well as the public to hasten the process. He did so by increasing executive power and bypassing Congress and the courts (once firing federal prosecutors for being un-cooperative). He also used false evidence fabricated by the CIA, the spy agency whose activities are, well, secret to the public, to mislead the public to a costly and very unpopular war in Iraq. His support ratings have since suffered in consequence – having been a fixture in the lowly 20s for much of his second term, low enough to make him the worst president of all time.
In short, Mr. Bush acted like a dictator. In order to be decisive (he styled himself as "a decider rather than a details man", according to the Economist) Mr. Bush has violated many fundamental rules governing America as a democracy.
I mean a democratic process (true democracies are yet to find on this earth), via its complicated system of checks and balances without which American democracy wouldn't be any different from a dictatorship from another county. Quite frankly, to the author of these pages, the American model of democracy essentially is a dictatorship, albeit a very democratic one (if you may pardon the expression, democratic dictatorship being an obvious oxymoron), since it's always the same two parties that win elections – and the elections are not a direct election either, as it is not one decided by popular votes in a single contest. And it is always the same people that win elections too. Barack Obama had to become "one of the boys" before he could even have a fighting chance. Don't be fooled by the color of his skin. If America were really equal for every man (and, don't forget, woman) or every color, why has it taken so long? Abraham Lincoln freed blacks from slavery in 1860, didn't he?
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