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I Want a President Who Cares -- About Keeping Promises

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Media Link - Dallas Morning News
Written by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.   
Thursday, 01 August 2002 00:00
The message the White House will take away from this is that the president cares," says Bush consultant Scott Reed on why the president hosted focus groups on the national economy Aug. 13 in Waco. So now we know President Bush cares. The crucial question here is: cares ... about what? President Bush could better spend his public relations energies doing constructive things, such as persuading people to follow the recommendations of his 2000 campaign platform: making medical savings accounts ("medical IRAs") legal for all citizens; accelerating the dates of his tax cuts; proposing a capital gains tax cut and explaining why it's both moral and economic for everyone; proposing educational savings accounts ("education IRAs") for parents so they can take their children out of the deteriorating public school system; and -- his now forgotten campaign pledge -- initiating the privatization of Social Security. It's interesting to watch a president run from his own ideas, and to those of his opponents, once the going gets tough. President Bush said he believed in certain principles and policies back in 2000, when the economy seemed sound. Now that we're in economic trouble, he's running for his life ... to the tactics and policies of his opponents. Don't misunderstand. I want a president who cares. But I want one who cares about the right things. I don't want a president who cares about looking humane and compassionate -- whatever that means in this day and age of promiscuous compassion. And I don't want a president who cares about showing how he really agrees with the opposing party on most issues. This comes across as duplicitous and phony, and it only aids his opponents.
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