On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Scott Stro wrote: > > > Then again, what sane person would actually want the job of President of > the > United States? ;)
1. a masochist 2. someone who is very much over-confident 3. a moron who has no idea what they are getting themselves into 4. a power-hungry thug 5. some or all of the above The presidency is no longer a one-person gig. There are teams of people for every function of the White House- policy experts, legislative experts, bureaucrats, aides. President Bush described, in his own mangled way, exactly what the role of the President is in modern America when he said, "I'm the decider." Where super smart people like Clinton in the 90's and Obama now tend to go wrong is to try and get their arms personally around too many things. Obama made a very telling confession when he said he spent a lot of time lately reading briefing books. That's all well and good, and I'm glad to have a President that is intellectually very capable, but he needs to beware the trap of getting too deep into the details of individual issues and losing track of the big picture. We know Bush never had that problem. Oops. Maybe there is a happy medium we can find. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294072 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
