Thursday, February 04, 2010

I Kind Of Have To Wonder, Part One

The office of the President of the United States is a singularly thankless one. Loads of responsibility, both actual and perceived, diplomacy with nations and people that hate you with at least some of your constituents mad at you no matter your success or failure, lower pay than Congress... All in all, bad. So you have to wonder about the motives of someone who wants the office at all. Much less someone who wants it enough to raise almost a billion dollars to get it, more than anyone else in the history of our nation. What inducement could make someone want the Presidency so badly as that? Especially when anyone knows government is mostly home to the corrupt and the incompetent? I really have to wonder. Don't you?