Sunday, January 5, 2003Now, it must be noted that no one expected Bush to maintain the peak he had immediately after 9/11. But you would think that he would be able to maintain at least some of that popularity if he were actually as good a leader as his press says he is.
I have to wonder, again, how Bush would do if he were under the kind of constant attack that Clinton had to deal with. Somehow I doubt he would be able to hold up under the pressure."
Long before the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, the U.S. Navy experienced one of its own. It involved at least one U.S. Naval Academy graduate, P-3 Orion naval pilots with access to nuclear weapons (the P-3 Orion is an anti-submarine warfare aircraft), personnel with top-secret clearances, and officers in leadership positions of trust akin to those of clergymen....
In many respects, John Lehman was no different than Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law in covering up an incident later described by a senior naval officer as among the top 10 most damaging incidents in the history of the U.S. Navy. However, unlike John Lehman, Cardinal Law had the decency to acknowledge the scandal and ultimately resign his office over the church's pedophilia scandal.
