... allowing the protesters to influence him would be "like saying I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group."
I guess this isn't particularly surprising. He didn't seem to have trouble taking the job against the will of the majority, so why start now?
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I guess this is just me being snarky. In the U.S., the majority probably supports war with Iraq, which clearly doesn't make it (or any other popular thing) necessarily correct.