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Could President Bush save his Presidency? Many of his foreign and domestic agendas ended with floppy consequences, and the dark shadows of his advisors are clouding his administration with growing suspicion from the democratically controlled Congress and the public. If President Bush truly wants to leave his job with the slightest hint of dignity and respect (from the majority of the public), then he should start working hard to restore integrity of his administration by firing white house officials who has the slightest taint in their records.

I personally disagree with President Bush’s policies from top to bottom, but I truly admire his unequivocal belief of his conscious. We can look back at President L.B.J., when he received counsel from vast points of view in the white house. Both Presidents believe that their war policy was the step in the right direction for the country, and I am afraid that both wars will end up with the same unavoidable and costly consequence to this nation. The problem with President Johnson was that the advice he was receiving was far from the truth, and bad advice cost him the second-term presidency at the end.

The problem with the Bush administration is not only that the President is receiving bad advice but also that the white house is full of bad advisors, or at least it seems. Karl Rove is always in the spot light, infamous for taking down Senator McCain’s’ campaign in South Carolina in 2000 and engineering the perfect (yet highly immoral) plan that would win then Governor Bush’s win for the white house. A lot of the high profile controversial issues surrounding the white house somehow link with Rove. My advice to the President: Fire Rove.

I do not have any personal hatred against Karl Rove, but he is a significant burden to the Bush administration (casting away any integrity in the white house) and to the American people (driving this nation to the path of “backward” policy). His highly obsessive and inseparable political motivation is detrimental to the Bush’s legacy. If the President would truly like to restore the clean, genuine spotlight of the white house before his leave, then the first step is to kick Rove out of the white house and hire some body with a clean record. (It worked terrifically well with the replacement of our Secretary of Defense)