Actually, I think he's right, though it's odd to see it in print: Writing about W., Jesse Singal
says that good-natured, non-anxious leaders are unlikely to succeed:
When you are in a position of power and you are not neurotic, you’ll be relentlessly shaped by the forces around you. That’s not to say any president is immune to this—Obama, after all, is quite neurotic, and he is buffeted by forces over which he has little control—but, if nature abhors a vacuum, political power abhors one even more. Bush was mostly a vacuum. A good-natured, privileged vacuum, perhaps, and one with a bit of inspiration in his biography (hasn’t had a drink since 1986, he said), but a vacuum nonetheless.
Actually, I think he's right, though it's odd to see it in print: Writing about W., Jesse Singal says that good-natured, non-anxious leaders are unlikely to succeed:
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