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Who in their right mind would ever want to be President of the United States? Just think about it, you really can’t do a damn thing that might actually accomplish something. You can make recommendations but not laws, you can send up a budget but you can’t ratify it. You can veto but not adjust a bill to make it palatable. Every step you make is under the scrutiny of the press and Congress.

You may hold the most prestigious job in the world but you are at the mercy of the 545 professional politicians in the House and Senate. Your job can not last more than eight years but the people who control all you do have unlimited terms. You will take the blame for everything imaginable and the people who are actually in control will skate along to the music and never face the consequences of their actions. If you listen to the politicians you would almost be convinced that the economy, the price of gas and the housing crisis were all of your making.

The fact that we didn’t have these crisis’s until after the last election when the House and Senate was remade in the form of Pelosi and Reid does not register with the general public. No, you’re to blame Mr. President, you must have purposely caused the banks to get greedy and take those bad loans. You must have purposely caused India and China to become huge users of oil to make the barrel prices go up. You must have drugged the water in the House and Senate to get them to believe there was cause to go into Iraq.

Surely it must be your fault that the schools of America are breeding grounds for violence and sex. You must be responsible for the dreadful movies our kids watch and the violent computer games they play each day. I’m sure that the professional politicians must be right when they tell us what a terrible leader you are. I’m sure they wouldn’t pass the buck if it weren’t true.

No, I wouldn’t be President for all the tea in China. Just think an athlete going into the pro’s in almost any major sport will make an average of several million dollars a year and do what ever he wants with really no liability or responsibility to his fans or the public. The President of these United States has the weight of the world on his shoulders and only makes a few hundred thousand a year. Gosh, is something amiss here?

And that’s my opinion,
Don