I am not worthy
/Tom Engelhardt: Prelude to an Inaugural
We have just lived through a commander-in-chief presidency whose oppressive power and overwhelming hubris would undoubtedly have left (the) early presidents in shock, if not armed revolt. They would have seen George Bush's world - in which strength was the byword of power and weakness an anathema - as the scion of European autocracy.
These were, after all, men wary of armies and military power, who had sacrificed the very idea of executive strength to a tripartite form of government that would, they hoped, have the advantages of resiliency and responsibility. They understood, and embraced, certain limits that Americans may only be waking up to now.
We have just lived through a commander-in-chief presidency whose oppressive power and overwhelming hubris would undoubtedly have left (the) early presidents in shock, if not armed revolt. They would have seen George Bush's world - in which strength was the byword of power and weakness an anathema - as the scion of European autocracy. 
