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A Leader Defined.(A)(EDITORIALS)
Leadership: Our nation faces many troubling challenges this year. A likely war with Iraq. A war on terror. A teetering economy. Thankfully, we have one big thing working in our favor: a real leader in the White House.
President Bush has been called many unflattering things over the past two years. The spokeswoman for Canada's prime minister called him a "moron." The French derided him repeatedly for his "simplisme." To the Germans, he's a "cowboy" and "stupid."
Americans see past the name-calling. In survey after survey, including our own IBD/TIPP Poll, Americans give Bush high marks for what he is: a real leader at a time when the world desperately needs one.
This is something the Susan Sontags, Norman Mailers, Gore Vidals, Noam Chomskys and others among the nation's paid chattering class have missed. A president isn't picked for his IQ; if he were, we'd just give a national IQ test and skip the trouble of voting.
No, a president is selected because of his leadership qualities. And Bush has those in spades.
Go back to 9-11. Amid all the confusion, Bush's leadership shone, a beacon to the world. He vowed to go after the terrorists. He put America on a war footing. He rocked America's would-be enemies back on their heels.
He successfully prosecuted a war in Afghanistan -- which ended just weeks after the ...
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