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Bottom line, it's not the polls that define true leadership. It is the final results. What we are seeing today is the cleanup of eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton's absolutely trivial, do-nothing, govern-by-polls, co-presidency.

p>God bless you br> -- Jim L br> Cape Cod, Massachusetts /p>

I am old. In fact, I remember when Harry S. Truman's approval ratings were in the 20s! Can you imagine that?

Harry had problems: War in Korea; trouble at the UN; the Republicans had one house of Congress in those days, and there were hurricanes even back then; unemployment was high, even in a time of war.

Harry hung in there -- he even fired MacArthur. On that one some said, "What gall!" Today, most historians place Harry in the "near-great" category of presidents, which puts him close to names like Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Roosevelt.

Harry was quite a guy.

George W. Bush is a lot like Harry S. Truman. He even talks like him as Harry was no great speaker. George W. Bush is now facing a great and difficult problem where thousands of Americans require help, and he intends to see that they receive the help they need -- from food to medicine, to a place to lay one's head, to a job, as well as all the needs of a family. He will see that it is done, though it will take time. He will be remembered for a job well done regardless of how current polls read; all polls are suspect these days.

p>Only one other political leader had to face such evil in modern political history, dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt. That was Richard M. Nixon, and he was destroyed by both the mainstream media and liberal Democrats, through an astoundingly vicious campaign against him, primarily through television and the leading press of the New York Times , the Washington Post

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