Would you like to be President of the United States?

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  1. MrMynomics The Boss Registered Senior Member

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    Would you like to be the President of the United States?.
     
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  3. valentino Registered Senior Member

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    Not especially, I wouldn't want so many people hating me and mocking me on SNL , which they would even if I was the best president ever.
     
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  5. lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Sure. I would make this country way better than it is.
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Why not, I would set the priorities as Education, Environment, Defense and Health Care as tops on my list of things to improve upon.
     
  8. Pollux V Ra Bless America Registered Senior Member

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    Absolutely. I wish they had a good computer strategy game for something like that. To live out a fantasy of mine, you know?

    To be in the Oval Office...
     
  9. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    Ever notice that presidents seem to age 10 years in four?

    Still... it'd be worth it to carry around that briefcase with the go codes for alla them tasty nukes... even if there are a lot less of them than there used to be...

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  10. No, I wouldn't.

    Virtually everybody thinks him or herself superior to the president, no matter who that happens to be at the time.
    However, I'm willing to acknowledge his ability and admit that his is surely one of the hardest professions extant; I'd probably have a nervous collapse if I had to bear that amount of responsibility for even a day, and I would never take it up as enthusiastically as some might.

    George may stammer occasionally, comport himself oddly, and look absurd. He may simply regurgitate the words of others. He may even be of a lesser intellect than I, but he is my better in experience and either ambition or conviction. I'll give him those for certain!
     
  11. Xev Registered Senior Member

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    Are you kidding?

    Picture fucking in the Oval Office, then punching in the codes to launch a nuclear strike against Japan as you come. Your lover holds you in his arms and adjusts the volume of Grieg's Piano concerto in A while you summon the attorney general and have legislation rushed through congress that makes owning shitty music a crime punishable by death.

    Then you'd organize Nuremburg-esque rallies with cabaret girls dancing around while shitty Manowar songs play on loudspeakers...

    Power is only stressful when you actually give a shit about holding on to it.
     
  12. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    President? Not a chance in hell. You have very little real power, you are second guessed all the time, you have to have twelve security agents with you every moment of every day, you have to hide your real emotions, and your private life is splayed wide open to the media. Dictator of Cuba I think I could get into provided I didn't have to worry about my generals having me killed.
     

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