Whacko In World War Z

In the novel World war z, I chose the character Whacko; he was the former president of the United States. He is a diverse Republican however; he is implied as being a Howard Dean that is a Democrat even though he points out that he once formed a bi-partisan ticket with Colin Powell that was a republican. It is obvious that the president and the vice president must come from the same political party. This is to mean that then even the former president popularly known as the “Big Guy” must have been a republican. Being the successor of the George Bush, he was responsible in cleaning up of the mess that was brought about by the Iraq war. This is prophesized that even in the end times, there would be war, where nations will be fighting each other.
Whacko unlike other characters does not represent problems that are presented in the novel, such as abuse of the political powers for their own selfish interests. As far as the characters in the novel are concerned, the president and Whacko are like Abbot and Costello, this is to mean that they have opposite personalities but eventually go together in reaching a common goal.
The president is known for being smooth; calm as well as logical while the vice president is passionate that is why they called him Whacko. They at some point in the novel show some examples of not perfect but good politicians.
The thing that separates the president from other weaker members from his political pack is that he might not be playing the usual games of just being in power but rather he is maintaining elections. He is not just elected to be paid but he is working hard in maintaining and upholding principles. The reason why he keeps allowing the elections to take place is that he does not want to be the first American Caesar since elections are critical part of the American deals.
The decision he made is a direct opposite of some of the malicious presidents such as Grover Carlson and the Russian president. Carlson points out that his main reason for being in office is to probably stay in office and then find a way of helping people that support these ends. However, later on, the Russian president though for a while, seized the power of being a Caesar changing into becoming an absolute monarch. Even though Whacko at first tries to disagree with the president on his ruling decisions, he eventually sees the importance and wisdom of the decision.
The other positive aspect of the president that signifies him as being a good leader is that he always takes responsibility of his own actions.
While in office, he had to make some awful decisions by creating new criminal punishment systems that were practically using pillories. The worst part of his decisions is when he ordered complete destruction of some secessionist states that had been newly formed the time after the government made the decision of bugging out of the west Rookies which led to death of many American citizens. This signifies that the decision one makes may or may not been the rightful choice but throughout the novel, he is praised for being a president that was able to shoulder such a crushing burden to the nation at large. They carried a legacy although not perfect, but in the novel they portray a good example of decent
politicians.
Immediately after winning the re-election, he started by implementing phase one of his promises to people which was to combat the zombie epidemic. He formed some special forces known as the “Alpha Teams” who were deployed in some of the isolated areas that had an outbreak of the zombie epidemic belonging in some slums. This was only meant to stop gap measure. The president however, declined to scale up the operation to other others areas. Initially, Alpha team seemed to be working so hard leading to the decline of the spread of zombies in the winter.
Breckinridge Scott even recognized that it was the most business friendly administration for many years he had lived. The former president was the one that facilitated the approval of phalanx vaccine through the FDA production and approval process, even though based on the reality it is was like an excuse. It was unfortunate that in the year 2013, the cold temperatures reduced leading to an increase in the spread of zombies exponentially. That is why a female journalist openly exposed the phalanx saying that it was just but a placebo which that was not protecting its people against the zombie epidemic. This also shows the sign of the end times since it is prophesized that there would be strange disease that will attack and kill innocent citizens. The vice president tells people to have found the vaccine that can eliminate all the zombie viruses only for people to realize that it was blackmail for people to continue dying and suffering. This is wrong especially when you are a political leader.