Bush is Right "On Code"

Today's Washington Post features a cleverly disguised hit-piece on George W. Bush. Ostensibly, the piece seeks to dissect his changing rhetorical style. But the real objective is to portray him as a desperate out-of-touch lame duck who thinks he's a messiah:

Renshon, who wrote a mostly-favorable book in 2004 about Bush's psychology, said the president's declarations are in keeping with his apparent self-image as a Jeremiah, "railing against the tides" and saying what "people ought to be doing something about.

While The Post believes they are criticizing Bush for trying to be "Jeremiah," the truth is that Bush is filling the exact role that American's want and need in a president. Recently, I read The Culture Code by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille a French Anthropologist turned marketing guru for Fortune 100 companies. Rapaille markets the book by asking:

Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.

As you might expect, the code for leader is different from country to country. What does the Frenchman say the American code for president is?

... Moses

As such, Rapille says that Bush is perfectly "on code" for what Americans want and need as a president.

So I guess the Post does know what they're talking about, after all ...