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To be President of the United States of America, you have to be crazy. Most people do not realize that there are actually three requirements to be eligible to hold this office. You have to be at least 35 years of age, and you have to have been born in the United States. What is always left you is that you have to be rub-your-head-with-Vasaline-talk-to-paintings-run-down-old-ladies-with-your-horse-insert-cigars-in-interns crazy.
This has not always been the case. George Washington famously did not want to President. He could not wait to return to Mount Vernon and resume his normal life. Thomas Jefferson grew extremely disgusted with his role. Throughout the19th century, with the notable exception of Abraham Lincoln, the federal government had not become the monolith we know today, so those guys got off relatively easy. Apologies are in order to those who are passionate about Rutherford B. Hayes, Chestur A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland.. It was the Great Depression and World War II that brought to existence the magisterial flack of public opinion that we today call President.
Simultaneously,the U.S. media continued its' fantastic devolution into its true vulture nature, and regular citizens focused less on grand policy measures (if they ever really did focus on those matters) and focused more on which disease they were going to catch, and/or who to scapegoat for their problems. This helped foster the unholy union of people who think they are important with the people who think they are important because they talk and write about the people who think they are important. All on TV, no less. The first nationally televised presidential debate pitted John F. Kennedy against Richard M. Nixon. Simply looking at the two, whom would you vote for?
In this atmosphere, no sane person would want to be President. Giving up any humble desire to quietly exist with a happy and healthy family life for a life of intense scrutiny and criticism can only be the quest of the most outlandish sense of self-importance. It has very little to do with a sense of duty to the country, as that can be done with simple everyday acts that do not get noticed on the world stage.
There has not been one figure on the national political stage that has seemed like a human being while posing as a representative of their country. This is only natural, as "countries" are wholly unnatural made-up entities founded on the idea of protecting resources and power for a specific group.
Once again, George W. Bush does not quite live up to our expectations. We like kooky crazy, not dangerously crazy. The policies of Bush ignited enough speculation about his sanity.His noted affection for dirty jokes, mangling the English language, and handing out folksy nicknames does not quite spark our imaginations.
By the way, Calvin Coolidge liked the Vasaline, Richard Nixon talked to paintings, and Warren Harding was the one on the horse. We all know who liked to do naughty things with cigars.
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