Following the Constitution is a given in my opinion. It is what is expected at a basic level of service. I agree that it is probably the number one job but the point I was making was that contemporary presidents usually try to unite the country behind some race to the moon, or war on poverty, or some such pet project while in office. Bush has simply pushed his own unilateral agenda throughout his term without regard to uniting the people of this country behind him. I don't believe any of the above causes would directly go against the Constitution by any stretch of the imagination. Along this line of thought , I heard today that Bush has seeded Federal Government positions with over a 140 graduates from Pat Robertson's Christian Evangelical University. The largest number of graduates from any University in the country and not that large of a University in the first place. Perhaps you've heard one of their graduates names in the news recently. Monica Goodling is the Justice Department person that just pleaded the 5th amendment in a letter to the Senate panel investigating the Federal prosecutor firings. Bush's attempt to Christianize the Federal Government may be his unannounced pet project being ushered in through the back door. Think of the Constitutional ramifications of that little escapade...Ouch!
The first Bush was and still is totally in the pockets of the Saudi's. Collin Powel was getting big bucks speaking at colleges at lectures that were sponsered by overseas arab money, the new payoff system. However, there is a large segment of the republican party that is beholden to the christian right, especially in the south so that the oil money payoffs would not factor in for they have an agenda to follow that christain right, or is right depending on your prespective, support is based upon. Note:The second Bush was reborn again so he was not in the saudi's pockets "after" seeing the light but unfortunally he may have saw the light but he does not have a strong enough fire burning inside of him. God how I wish we had another Harry S. Truman or a younger Ronnie Regan as President today. We need an honest man with gonads.
They say a man is mature when he has more brains than guts. I'd settle for a president intent on not going beyond the duties mandated by the Constitution and a very traditional non-interventionist foreign policy. However, whenever this simple suggestion is made, everyone responds "Yes, but..." I'd rather have a reincarnation of George Washington than of Truman or Reagan.
A man may have brains to think but he needs gut or gonads, to make those thoughts into actions. George Washington fought in the French and Indian War, George Washington married one of the most weathly women in the world in his day, George Washington led us military in the American War of Independence. I would agree that George Washington had brains and guts that fit his time.