s by chance that he won but he felt no remorse for somewhat cheating his way into office. Bush was very proud of his accomplishment of becoming President just as Kreon was proud of becoming king.
Kreon "believes that he who rules in a state/ and fails to embrace the best man's counsels, but stays locked in silence and vague fear,/ is the worst man there./ [He has] long believed so./ And he who cherishes an individual beyond his homeland,/ he, [he] says, is nothing./ Zeus who sees all will see [he] shall not stay silent/ if [he sees] disaster marching against [his] citizens,/ and [he] shall not befriend the enemy of this land
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