Defeated by a Loss of Trust and Incompetence

When you see that someone has either lied to you or they are incompetent of doing what they told you they would do, it’s difficult to ever trust that person again. At some point you gave this person your trust and faith, and if they demonstrate that you made a mistake, you have no intention of making that same mistake again.

When george bush was elected, or some would say chosen by the Supreme Court, even those of us who were not in favor of his presidency felt he must not only do the job of being President of the United States, he must also protect and defend the Constitution. Along with these duties he must be up front and honest with the American people.

When the attacks of 9-11 occurred, our Constitution was not attacked but people were. The Constitution remained intact. The government decided to find and apprehend those who planned the attack. So far, so good.

Then we began to hear that Iraq must be invaded. We all know now that the reasons given were either lies or at the very least reports that bore the signs of serious incompetence. Whether you believe it was one or both, that’s where we began to question the ability of the administration to take our country where we needed to go.

If we had been able to continue to trust and rely on the administration’s competence even though we disagreed with their goals we wouldn’t be asking so many questions as we do today. We wouldn’t be so on edge and so fearful of what they are doing.

They have lost our faith, our trust and our confidence that they can and will do what is best for our country. The president appears to not only not defend the constitution, he seems to see it as an impediment to his own personal desires.

While there are a precious few who still refuse to either see or acknowledge the calamity that has occurred in our country over the past five years, most of us surely do. We now see a president who refuses to admit his mistakes and refuses to change course in the face of failure.

The only power he has now is that which he allows himself. With the country and even perhaps the world looking at a fallen man, he struts forward never looking back. He has nothing to demonstrate success, yet in his world he seems to see himself as successful. Without the trust and confidence of the American people he is deflated and empty. No longer does anyone listen to the noises he makes at the podium. No longer does anyone turn to him for guidance. He is looked upon as a buffoon and a joke.

His presidency is over in the sense that the public has lost confidence in his truthfulness and competency. So along with us, he too must endure two and a half more years of this misery he has created for himself and for America. He stated that he was a “war president” but he has now been defeated by his own loss of public trust and his incompetence.