Analysis of George Bush as a Politician

Borger (1989) said that President Bush was being president by-the-numbers, which meant that he was doing the job as if it were written out in a plan. He was doing only what he had to do. He seemed reluctant to Borger, while his people said he was only cautious. At the time, Bush was a very popular president, This was before the war in the Gulf, and Bush was popular because he had done nothing wrong. Borger says that he was untested, and the first real test would be the Gulf War. Bush passed the test and became more popular. What is surprising is how fast he has his popularity plummeted. It shows that the economy is the most important thing and that the people want a leader who will do something about what they want done.

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t believe in anything enough. He says that the fact that George Bush promised there would be no new taxes and then agreed to a tax increase hurt him a lot with the conservatives, but it hurt him with other people as well because they did not believe in him after that. He made other promises that he has not kept. He said he would be the environmental president and the education president, and he has not been either of these things. He has ignored most of the domestic policy area, and these things are all part of domestic policy. This is why he has lost his popularity. When the war was taking place, the people were behind him. When the war was over, they could be against him without hurting the war. One of the results is that George Bush always seems like a man with a job but no idea how to do it. Mullins and Wildavsky (1991) write about him: "Where it was easy to observe that President Carter was more interested in management than in politics, and President Reagan was more interested in politics than in administration, it is not so easy to get a fix on President George Bush" (p. 49). This is because George Bush does not believe in anything except holding office. He does not seem to know what to do with the office. He is
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