Crossposted at Political Cortex, skippy, and my blog, The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire.
Asked to explain the differences between the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Hamdan and President George W. Bush’s description of the case, the U.S. Department of Justice’s head of the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Bradbury told the Senate Judiciary Committee: “The President is always right.”
In decision after decision, we have seen that this was not a lone statement from a sychophant. Remember, George W. Bush could not think of any mistakes he had made despite failing to prevent the worst attack to the United States in modern history. “The President is always right” is a view held by George W. Bush himself. 
On a spring afternoon in May 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was anything but equal.
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
But the schools did not become desegregated overnight. When the Little Rock Nine enrolled and were scheduled to attend school in September 1957. It prompted one of the most dramatic moments in U.S. history.
When Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, President Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the “Little Rock Nine” and that the rulings of the Supreme Court were upheld.
What is often forgotten, but important to remember today, President Dwight Eisenhower had opposed desegregation. Before the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Topeka, Eisenhower had appealed personally to Chief Justice Earl Warren. He invited him to the White House to meet with segregationists in an attempt to persuade Warren to maintain “separate but equal” as the law of the land.
President Eisenhower, who later described the appointment of Earl Warren as chief justice as the worst decision he had ever made, was not as jubilant. At a White House dinner, he told Warren, “[Southern whites] are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.” Eisenhower added, “It is difficult through law and through force to change a man’s heart.”4 His heart, however, seemed to be with the opponents of integration.
One can say many things about President Eisenhower’s personal views on racial inequality.
But when the time came, he set aside his own desires. He sent the federal troops in to enforce the Supreme Court’s decision.
Eisenhower knew the president is not always right. And that alone makes him a better human than George W. Bush will ever be.
So what happens if the President and the Pope disagree?
Well God Speaks to W,and he doesn’t even go to Church. So a W trumps a Pope, well in the cult of W speak.
I cannot believe a lawyer would make such a quote. I mean that man has reached a whole new level of “kiss W’s white ass”. And just to be mean..where is the WMD if “The President is always right.”
Oh, he knows there’s a pony in there somewhere.
That would be an easy one for my Texan fundamentalist southern baptist friends and family – the president. Since they all think the Pope is going to hell anyway. But for the Catholics – that’s another story.
Hey, what do you know. Sometimes life really does imitate art – God help us.
“Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Suppose you had decided to follow Snowball, with his moonshine of windmills-Snowball, who, as we now know, was no better than a criminal?”
“He fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed,” said somebody.
“Bravery is not enough,” said Squealer. “Loyalty and obedience are more important. And as to the Battle of the Cowshed, I believe the time will come when we shall find that Snowball’s part in it was much exaggerated. Discipline, comrades, iron discipline! That is the watchword for today. One false step, and our enemies would be upon us. Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?”
Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop. Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” And from then on he adopted the maxim, “Napoleon is always right,” in addition to his private motto of “I will work harder.”