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What Kind of Ego Does It Take?
by James Glaser February 5, 2008 Think about it for a minute, humble people do not run for president. A person has to have an incredible ego to think that he or she should become the most powerful person in the world. Every candidate must get used to the word I. I will do, I can do, I have done must be repeated day in and day out for over a year, and you know what? These candidates start believing their own message. By the time they do become president, they really think that they are the most important person on the globe. There is the problem. Power does corrupt, and American Presidents have lots of power, but it is never enough. George Bush was not the first President to try and get more and more power for the executive branch of our government, but he might have been the first President that the Congress let walk all over them. Today the American President has the power of life and death for almost everyone on the globe. If he wanted to, George Bush could drop the "big one" on any country he chose. All he would need is some half baked excuse, and rather than admitting a crime, Congress would fall in line. Maybe ten, for sure twenty years ago Congress would have stood up to any president, but not today. Today the American President can put any citizen into life-long solitary confinement, and never have to worry about a court case. Every president since the Great Depression has been accumulating more and more power, with George Bush taking on the most. It will take decades to take that power away, and that might never happen. The next president after Bush might talk of reform (change) while running for office, but once elected, they will be intoxicated with the power they have, and they will believe that they can handle it. In fact like every president before them, they will see powers that they don't have, but that they need. Yes, it takes a huge ego to think that only you should be President of the United States. |
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