President Bush is working hard to convince the American people that John Kerry has a fatal flaw: He changes his mind. Or, in the current political lexicon, he ”flip-flops.” But isn’t a willingness to change course -- even to admit error -- an asset in a leader?
Throughout U.S. history, important decisions, some of monumental proportions, came about because presidents changed their minds. In his first political statement, in March 1832, the 23-year-old Abraham Lincoln said, ”Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I thought. So soon as I discover my opinions to be er ...
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