>>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.
Good point.
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