There are some people who have associated being president of the country with perks. Perks that make it seem like a royal life and highly enviable. You have the red carpet treatment, the highly-trained security detail, the “nothing is impossible” notion when it comes to getting what a president wants or needs, the most recognizable private plane in the world… and what else? Indeed the presidency is a glamorous job. But, it is also a job that is incomparable to anything else in the world. No corporate president in any arena can even come close to the tremendous responsibility placed upon the shoulders of the U.S. president. For the U.S. president is not just the president of a country, no. The American President symbolizes the free world. It symbolizes the most powerful person in the world who governs not only America but all the other countries as well. He is a peacemaker, negotiator, world policeman, adviser, and most of all, an example for the rest of the world leaders to emulate.
A president’s life is no piece of cake. It is a 20 hour a day job at the very least that is filled with tension, apprehension, and joy at any given moment. The presidency is not a position for greenhorns. Being president is not something you learn on the job, nor do you assign advisers to make decisions for you either. And no, cabinet secretaries should never be allowed to be little presidents either. This is a position that does not leave room for mistakes when you have billions of people depending upon you to make the right decision and save them from any unforeseen events that may be the aftermath of command responsibility.
Those are the duties of the American president and that, I feel, is what he or she should be attending to all day whether in the White House. Camp David, or traveling on Air Force One. We already know that John McCain is the nominee apparent of the Republican party. We also know that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be slugging it out all the way to the Nomination Convention. Of the 3 potential presidential candidates, who do I think can do the best job? Hint: My presidential candidate wears a skirt. Yes, I am talking about Hillary Clinton.
Why do I support Hillary Clinton? Mainly because I believe that our country did very well under her husband, former president Bill Clinton. The country was in ruins after the first Bush presidency and it took 8 years of the Bill Clinton presidency, sex scandals aside, to rebuild from the ruins. When Bill Clinton left the White House, our economy was healthy and we had a surplus to speak of. Something that the 2nd Bush squandered without a thought. It is because of Bill Clinton that I support Hillary. I do not care if people say her husband wants to be president again through her. His achievements speak for himself and so does Hillary’s. As a senator, she has chosen to be a cooperative person who can work with both Democratic and Republican sides. That is not a polarizing personality in my opinion. She knows how the White House works and she knows how the legislative houses work as well. She has done her homework and it shows in all the plans that she has been sharing with people on her campaign trail. She actually has a plan of action that begins on Day One. She tells the truth like it is and tells us how she plans to solve it. Unlike Barack Obama, whose rhetoric has me agreeing with him at the start but then after giving it some thought, I realize that his speech was just that, empty.
Carl M. Cannon supports my stand. In his article “Why Not Hillary? She Can Win the White House” as published in the Washington Monthly, he explains why Hillary may not be supported by her party, but she is the best bet the country has got. He explains:
On domestic issues, Sen. Clinton has also shown a willingness to step out of the safety zone. She is bolstering her bipartisan credentials by teaming up with Republicans from the other side of the aisle, such as Lindsey Graham and Frist himself, making her more difficult to portray as some kind of radical. And while her liberal voting record on social issues remains intact, she has taken rhetorical steps toward the middle. The most notable example occurred during a January speech in Albany, in which she advised abortion-rights activists to seek “common ground… with people on the other side.”
Reading that statement only served to strengthen my support for Hillary Clinton and her bid for the White House. She began training for the position while her husband was in office and she never stopped preparing for it. She is ready for the presidency and I can only hope that the Democratic sees that before it is too late. The presidential election is the Democrats to lose this year, and my biggest fear is that they are doing exactly that.
Work Cited
“Threw Him Under a Bus.” washingtonpost.com. 2008. Web.
“Why Not Hillary? She Can Win The White House”. Washington Monthly. 2005. Web.