http://dagblog.com/politics/attention-job-opening-potus-dilettantes-need-not-apply-12479 Comments for "Attention: The job opening is for POTUS. Dilettantes need not apply." en http://dagblog.com/comment/143574#comment-143574 <a id="comment-143574"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/politics/attention-job-opening-potus-dilettantes-need-not-apply-12479">Attention: The job opening is for POTUS. Dilettantes need not apply.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em>one that no president before them would have considered, even in the wildest wanderings of their most vivid imaginations</em></p> <p>Depends upon whether you are talking only about presidents during your lifetime.</p> <p>I would argue that most of our presidents before Theodore Roosevelt -- who basically decided he could add power to the presidency as long as it was not forbidden in the Constitution -- could not in their wildest imagination visualize the kind of powerful presidency you were introduced to as a child. Our entire federal government was much more limited before TR's time, in all kinds of ways. And some of those presidents really did want it that way.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:58:53 +0000 artappraiser comment 143574 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/143561#comment-143561 <a id="comment-143561"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/politics/attention-job-opening-potus-dilettantes-need-not-apply-12479">Attention: The job opening is for POTUS. Dilettantes need not apply.</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Gawd Almighty!</p> <p>Hillary wanted to be President!</p> <p>And I stated fifty times if I stated it once, Hillary would be my choice as number one or two!</p> <p>Repubs....just check out where there monies arise.</p> <p>Oh but Obama accepts monies....</p> <p>Shite.</p> <p>What a bunch of crap.</p> <p>I have written pages upon pages about Perry and his felonious activity in Texas and we would be safer with Trump, actually! Perry has accountants who keep him apprised!</p> <p>Bachmann's an idiot and so is Ricky. I think they shall be fine writing their books that contain no facts and no real epiphanies.</p> <p>And they shall write six or seven versions and make a mint.</p> <p>Paul thinks he is in some remake of Alice! His idiot son wanted to wade in but he saw the writing on the pa's.</p> <p>Mitt and Newt know the true score.</p> <p>Both of them will make hundreds of millions of dollars; they do not care about American Welfare.</p> <p>They never have!</p> <p>Huntsman? I cannot figure him out because I think he is out of his Idaho Morman mind.</p> <p>Oh well!</p> <p>Such is life!</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:49:42 +0000 Richard Day comment 143561 at http://dagblog.com