There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.
We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.
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