His moral cowardice has guided him all along

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.thehill.com/marshall/090904.aspx

Josh Marshall: 'His moral cowardice has guided him all along'
Date: Thursday, September 09 @ 09:59:38 EDT
Topic: Commander-In-Thief


Bush's National Guard years

By Josh Marshall, The Hill

The new revelations about President Bush's shirked Air National Guard service will continue the campaign debate about physical bravery. But with Bush, the real issue isn't physical bravery but moral cowardice.

We have a more immediate sense of what physical bravery and cowardice are. In fact, when we speak of bravery and cowardice, the physical variety is almost always what we're talking about. It's whether or not you can charge an enemy position while you're being fired at. It's whether you're immobilized by the fear of death.

Moral cowardice is more complex. A moral coward is someone who lacks the courage to tell the truth, to accept responsibility, to demand accountability, to do what's right when it's not the easy thing to do, to clean up his or her own messes. Perhaps we could say that moral bravery is having both the courage of your convictions as well as the courage of your misdeeds.

On the balance sheet of moral bravery -- as opposed to physical bravery -- John Kerry and George W. Bush were about as far apart as you could be on Vietnam. On the one hand, you have Kerry, who already had doubts about whether we should be fighting in Vietnam before he went but put his life on the line anyway. On the other hand, you have Bush, who supported the war, which means he believed the goal was worth the cost in American lives. Only, not his life. He believed others should go, just not him.
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[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. George Bush: a coward his whole life

there's a meme.

[billybob537]

2. Thats an excellent article

thanks , Now read this : Kerry actually ahead in swing states.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1299538,00.html?=rss