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Originally posted by Carrie
I believe that the day you take the Oath of President and you get done with your camera spots and signing everything you sign on the first day and finally walk into the White House pumped full of hope and determination...
That the CIA and the FBI and all of the existing "behind the scenes" advisors sit your ass down and say "Now that you're President, there's a few things you need to know, sir..." and proceed to tell you things that rock your entire fucking world and change everything you've ever thought was true and would turn your hair white if it could do so in an instant.
And that from that moment on, every decision you make and every word you are about to utter, you have to keep in mind those things that you're now privy to but cannot tell the American people... all of those things that you had planned and all of the things that you had promised and you have this vast network of knowledge at your fingertips but you can't make a fucking move because there are things at stake and things in place that *no one* knows and *no one* will ever know, that to reveal these things could very likely bring about the destruction of everything we believe to be true and shake the foundation of the world as we know it.
And all the while, while you're trying your damndest to do your best and walk that precarious line, you know that you've got armchair warriors who don't even have a pretense of a clue judging your every move, people who didn't even graduate high school much less attend college critiquing your every word. That the lives of thousands of men and women rest on your shoulders, that the safety of millions more depend on those rare moments when you can actually sit in a quiet room and think about everything that's been laid upon your shoulders and the events that have been laid out before you... but no one will *ever* understand, no one *could* ever understand, until they have taken that same Oath and been presented with those same earth-shattering facts that you were on that one day when you were so full of hope and promise.
So sit there in your comfortable chairs and pound away on your keyboards, where your most frightening thought is that you'll get ten less signups tomorrow than you did today, and judge what you *think* the most powerful man in the world is doing and his reasoning behind it.
And then get down on your knees and thank whomever it is that you believe in that you're not in *his* position, but instead in your stupefied bliss of thinking you have half a clue.
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That's very nice - wrapped up in a package for us but unfortunately christmas was over a few months ago. While the average american may not understand what you said, i doubt any serious presidential candidate is ignorant and doesn't know that. If you get the job and find out you can't handle - then resign. A metaphore about a kitchen being too warm comes to mind. Noone said being president of the united states was anything short of the worlds most difficult job.