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Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Jun. 9th, 2004 03:31 pmI don't want to be president.
No, really. I don't think I'd be very good at it.
I don't mean the campaigning/forging alliances/dealing with media/making compromises/ developing rapport/keeping voters happy parts of the job. Those are certainly important pieces of the job and America isn't going to get, much less keep, any president who isn't pretty good at all of that. In fact, I might be okay at those parts of it. My people-skills aren't nearly as bad as they used to be.
No, I mean the decision-making/being in charge part. The part where the president has to decide what the best possible outcome is, and then decide what the best possible way to achieve that outcome is, and then do his best to make that way the one that gets taken. You know. The ruling part of being a ruler.
( Ruling is HARD )
No, really. I don't think I'd be very good at it.
I don't mean the campaigning/forging alliances/dealing with media/making compromises/ developing rapport/keeping voters happy parts of the job. Those are certainly important pieces of the job and America isn't going to get, much less keep, any president who isn't pretty good at all of that. In fact, I might be okay at those parts of it. My people-skills aren't nearly as bad as they used to be.
No, I mean the decision-making/being in charge part. The part where the president has to decide what the best possible outcome is, and then decide what the best possible way to achieve that outcome is, and then do his best to make that way the one that gets taken. You know. The ruling part of being a ruler.
( Ruling is HARD )
