Colbert for President?
A comedian for President? Sounds like a punchline to me.
Wednesday on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert officially announced his candidacy for President of the
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While I’m sure no one, even Colbert himself, expects this latest bid to be taken seriously, I am amazed that so many people throw their hats into the ring come election time. As it stands, more than a year before the November 2008 election will decide the next President of the
After months of campaigning one of the candidates will be given the task of running a country. Have you ever thought about what a hard job being President must be? Can you imagine what it would be like to sit in the Oval Office and have the world watch your first day on the job? It’s very easy to criticize the person in power, but love him or hate him, it’s fair to say that he has faced decisions most of us have never dreamed of.
If Stephen Colbert was in the White House, well I’m sure it would be entertaining but I’m not convinced that’s any way to run a country. If you could pick any living person to be the next President, what would you look for in a leader? What do you think it takes to be a great President?
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I started to type all the idealistic things I think it takes to be a president but then I thought about the realistic world the office exists in and it occured to me: just ideals wouldn’t cut it. There are amazing pressures, unseen forces, countless people to keep happy… I can’t imagine a person alive today who could handle what that job has become.
Sure, if the system functioned the way the Founding Fathers intended maybe someone with incredible leadership skills and solid character would be able to flourish. But as things are today, I don’t know that we would even get a chance to see what the president could really do if free to make his or her own moves. To think that what takes place in US politics is all the Preident’s doing is naive. There is so much more to it than that: so many more people, ideas, pressures and realities involved. We need more than an ideal President, we need an ideal Washington!
Oh and I almost forgot… Colbert for President!!! :)