Taken from The Progressive vs. the Conservative By Ken Adelman
President George W. Bush is the real progressive. Not, of course, in terms of ideology. Here, Bush is true blue conservative…
Progressive Leadership
1) Freeing America from the straightjacket of outdated, or just bad, treaties (ABM Treaty & Kyoto Treaty)
2) Pre-emption doctrine - Adopting it broke with past U.S. strategic doctrines of containment and deterrence, recognizing that Al Qaeda fanatics can neither be contained, nor deterred.
3) Democracy across the Arab world
Years ago, leadership scholar James McGregor Burns made a telling distinction between transactional leaders — those who keep their desks clean and react to staff papers — and transformational leaders — those who direct their staffs and fundamentally flip the whole debate. Transactional leaders seek office to be someone. Transformational leaders seek office to do something.
President Bush’s merging conservative ideology with transformational leadership is rather remarkable. Most conservative leaders are, well, conservative in approach.
It is this progressive leadership with conservative ideology and transformational approach that has brought our country through three landscape changing events – recession, national tragedy and war. We have been able to weather the storm and stand firmly against our foes. It is impossible and fruitless to imagine any other leader at this critical time in our nation’s history and I am thankful we have his leadership, courage and strength of character. I hope that we will be able to continue to rely on President Bush and his progressive leadership for the next four years.
Posted by price at May 18, 2004 12:44 PM