>>>>>>I'll tell you something - the best president we've seen in our lifetimes, wasn't even president for a full term. Gerald Ford. He had flaws, sure - but IMO was the best of what we've seen.
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>>>>>>Not bad for someone who wasn't elected and didn't really want the job.
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>>>>>Like Robert Heinlein said, in words not exactly like these; the real problem is that we never get a chance to elect people who aren't lusting after power. It would be better to put someone in power who has to be dragged there kicking and screaming and who would just do the job and want nothing more out of it than to get out at the end of term.
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>>>>I agree completely. Maybe it should be like jury duty only with vetting....
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>>>Probably the closest we ever came was Calvin Coolidge.
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>>A national lottery for every person (natural born citizen per the constitution) over the age of 35... :o)
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>Might work out - after all, Wm F Buckley said he'd rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard.

Thinking about it though it seems more like one of those old scary movies - a lottery a year and someone dies.....having to serve as President of this country might seem like a fate worse than death....