Reply #26: He really is saying He is the Decider and public opinion does not matter! [View All]

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"“People don’t like my policies, necessarily,” he said, noting opposition to the decision in 2002 to withdraw U.S. support for the International Criminal Court and his opposition to the Kyoto Protocols on global warning, in addition to the war in Iraq.

But “you’ve got to make decisions based upon what you think is right — that you can’t try to be popular,” he maintained."

Why can't he try to be popular? Especially when it means sending thousands of us to our deaths and burning hundreds of billions of dollars, shouldn't he bend to public opinion?