At "Ask Bush" Campaign Events - Only true believers need apply: "At his rallies Bush is a pseudo-populist. But these controlled environments reflect his deeper view of the presidency as sovereign - preempting democracy.
Floundering in the polls, without a strategy for Iraq, unwilling to say the name of Bin Laden, he is secure in the knowledge that the cheering multitudes have been selected. Ask President Bush has crystallised the underlying issue, framed succinctly by the greatest American poet of democracy, Walt Whitman, who wrote, "The President is there in the White House for you, it is not you who are here for him."
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