I can’t imagine wanting this job. Long hours, high stress and the pay is not that great. Would you want it?
[Professor Farnsworth] Oh my, no![/PF]
Couldn’t pay me enough.
Does the President get cable? And would I have a small but loyal band of insane supporters, maybe 1000, who’d still think I was great even after I bombed LA because I got confused?
Yeah, I’ll give it a go. When do I get to vomit on a foreign dignitary?
Influence on legislation, fancy cars, nice house, …and lets not forget interns! 
President? No thanks. But if there is an opening for invisible puppet master behind the scenes who really controls everything, I am so there.
To be considered the most powerful person on the planet… Um, yes, I think I would give it a shot! The list of things that I would do if I was the leader of the free world couldnt be any longer. To be able to have that large of an influence over the planet would be worth the long hours and stress.
No.
I do not wish to rule over others, as all governments depend on the use of lethal force to survive.
NO!
And neither would anyone else who doesn’t want to obtain and hold on to enormous power, at almost any cost. Which explains a lot.
Hell no. $250,000 a year for that job? Are you crazy?
Depends.
After Clinton’s Presidency? Sure! Anyone with a halfway intelligent sense of thinking can stay the course and keep the well-oiled national machinery humming.
After George W. Bush’s Presidency? Hell no; you need a miracle worker to clean up the mess we’ve got here, and I don’t do miracles.
Oh yeah dealing with the cleanup of the collapsed dot com economy and 9/11 would just be a walk in the park.
What is the purpose of shitting personal politics in a thread that has nothing to do with it? It’s already 50 percent of this board, is it that hard to find a thread about Bush to post in that you half to shoehorn it everywhere else?
I’d love to be First Lady . . . I don’t think any of them–the recent ones, anyway–really had fun with it. I’d be like a demented combination of Jackie Kennedy, Divine, and Patsy Stone.
I’d throw the best White House bashes ever . . . You know that party at the end of La Dolce Vita? Picture that with a combination of world leaders, movie stars, and hot Secret Service agents and interns . . .
Well shit, I really shouldn’t have posted that, I reacted hot-headedly and took the bait. Doing exactly what I was complaining about.
Apologies to the OP and the mods for putting the match to the fuse, And I hope everybody else has better sence then I did refrain from hijacking the thread into that same overdone conversation.
sorry Khadaji, I’ll shut up now.
No, no, no, hell no! There are not invectives strong enough to convey my feelings about this. I mean, I got three kids (okay, two of them are teenagers, so that ups the stress levels a little), a great husband, a house to live in, etc. and still about twice a month, I need a 5 mg. Valium to get to sleep. I can’t imagine what I’d need if I were President.
I want it, I want it! Being the president of my own little island nation would be good enough already, but getting a chance to be the president of the USA? That would be quite an opportunity.
And since I don’t have a problem with committing political suicide, I’d tighten gun control, revert the patriot act, make the recitation of the pledge of allegiance highly optional (read: Do it at home, if you feel that you must), either start pumping out the oil of Iraq already or repair the ties with the international community (doing something half-assed isn’t worth it. At this stage, I’d probably take the oil and call it quits), lower the drinking age to 18, put a stronger focus on history and science at schools and do probably a whole lot of other things people are going to lynch me for
Actually, I think my stress level would go down if I was President. To be specific, I wouldn’t always be burning with anger about how the President was handling the country. Because although I might not be perfect at the job, I could hardly do any worse than the last few fools we’ve had.
I just wouldn’t start any wars, would order Congress to reduce the budget by a certain amount each year or else get a veto, and would put a total economic embargo on any country that supports terrorism. How hard can it be?
Actually, it’s been 400k since 2001.
I’ll accept the opportunity, thank you very much. I’ll solve all the county’s worst problems and everyone will live happily ever after, the envy of the rest of the world (is this a generic enough platform? :D)
Yes. I would love to be the President of the United States.
I wouldn’t want any job where my every move would be scrutinized on the nightly news. And I’m not talking about job-related issues - I mean personal matters (thinking of Reagan’s polyps here) :eek:
How awful not to be able to have a crabby day or to say exactly what you were thinking. I can see me at a press conference after some reporter asked some inane question or phrased it so that there’s no good answer. First, I’d stare in disbelief, then have to say “What kind of idiot are you?”
Yeah, that’d go over well… No thanks. I don’t want to be in such a fishbowl.
Lol, apology accepted but not needed. I too would prefer that the thread stick to the question and not have political commentary.