Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
Weakness is provocative.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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