Sen. Reid Says Bush Suffers ‘Doubt Deficit’
(2006-03-21) — After a White House news conference today during which President George Bush professed continuing confidence in the U.S. strategy toward Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid expressed concern that the president suffers a ‘doubt deficit’ that could make him unfit for command.
The Democrat senator said his remarks flow not from partisan politics, but from genuine compassion for Mr. Bush’s mental health.
“After watching all that bad news on TV, and reading the devastating opinion polls, a normal man would not stay the course,” said Sen. Reid. “A great leader knows how to identify psychologically with his followers through second-guessing and equal measures of doubt and self-loathing. I’m afraid the president is pathologically incapable of acting like a real man.”
Sen. Reid said he learned leadership principles while growing up in Searchlight, Nevada, where neighbors still remember him as the boy they called ‘Pinky‘.
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