Brilliant... oh that's a good one.
How do you define brilliance.. If you are going on academic merit, then Clinton wipes the floor with Bush.
I personally would rather go with results... Brilliant leadership would therefore have tangable results... Lets see what Bush has done:
1) Ignored warnings about impending terrorist attacks, shrugging them off until 9/11
2) Ignored valid intelligence about Iraq not having WMD and ignored the warning of the UN weapon inspectors on the ground that they needed to finish their work, which they were mere months away from doing without finding anything so far.
3) Led the US into a foolish war based upon false statements.
4) He refused to veto a single bill for the first 6 years of his presidency.
5) He has piled up MASSIVE debt for the country to try to pay off in future years, but then again, he is brilliant at passing his screw ups to others.
6) He pushed for and passed the largest increase in entitlements with the huge medicare drug benefits, without funding the new entitlements at all.
7) He has digraced the nation with his advocation of "advanced interrogation" techniques, which amount to torture.
8) He has repeditively broken the law and never been called on it, on such things as illegal wiretaps, illegal detentions, illegal military tribunals.
Oh yes, the brilliance of Bush and his staff has been clear to most of this country and the world, which is why is is so despised by so many.
But I guess as the saying goes, you can fool all of the people some of the time. And you can fool some of the people all of the time.. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.. Well I guess you fall into the some of the people fooled all of the time by Bush.
Or maybe your mark of brilliance is Bush's brilliant quote:
"Fool me once, shame on - shame on you.. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
