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Originally Posted by theking
A Presidents power is very limited...particularly domestically. Only Congress can make law and only congress controls the purse. A President is the one and only Commander in Chief of the military and maybe has a bit more power in the exercise of foreign policy than he has in domestic policy. A Presidential candidate can only promise to make an effort to do something.
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This sums things up pretty nicely.
We tend to point fingers at the President and hold them accountable. However, is it really proper to hold Bush accountable for 9/11? Or the recession?
I wish the President had more power.