Bush portrays his enthusiasm for dismissing all of this in a global outrage as governing by pulling that he considers it a beneath cintace democracy. This tells you everything about how the war on terror conceives of its relations with the public, says John Avlon. It transforms george w bush' from an unelected and presumptively illegitimate president who happened to have enough of the already undemocratic rules behind electing a president break enough in his way. And then some in unexpected ways, like the supreme court deciding the two an election. All of that is washed away, because now he is the great leader of the war onterror, and he intends to operate that way.