Why the Presidency?

Unranked UCLA beat number 2 USC in one of the greatest upset victories of all time! Hooray! And it wasn't a fluke, USC was outcoached, outplayed and legitimately put in their place (I thought they were overranked all year long and could easily have lost more games than they did).

I am wondering why anyone in their right mind would even want to be President, following the Bush/Cheney administration. Given the hopeless mess in Iraq, an already lost "war," the positively grim situation throughout the Middle East, and given the unprecedented national debt, and given the limited funds that will be available to do anything about health care, our decaying infrastructure, global warming, the Katrina debacle, the environment, lawsuits, investigations, trying to bring the troops home, rebuilding our military, trying to make up to all those we have almost fatally offended, and who knows what all else, anyone who would agree to serve as our next President will be taking on a virtually hopeless task. In order to actually accomplish anything will involve draconian measures sure to meet with considerable resistance from those who will be forced to "sacrifice." It will involve having to levy more taxes (who is going to want to pay more taxes), it will involve more rules having to do with gas guzzlers, more restrictions on ATV's and personal watercraft, perhaps breeching some dams, changes in absurd tax breaks for corporations and the already filthy rich, curbing the influence of gigantic corporations and extremist fundamentalists and other things of that nature that will clearly be more than just mildly opposed by those who presently enjoy such unfair perquisites.

As I see no superhero on the horizon to clean up this incredible mess (without destroying their own career in the process) perhaps we should insist that the next President be another Republican nitwit. Then when things cannot possibly get any worse we can beg someone to take over and give them the absolute power they will require to save us from ourselves (if it will not be too late by then).

I cannot see any of the current known candidates (or presumed candidates) that could possibly be up to the gargantuan task that lies ahead. Certainly not Hillary (female and basically just another Republican), nor McCain (a warmonger), nor Obama (black and not yet Presidential), Edwards (probably a great candidate for the Vice Presidency), Biden (an unnacceptible plan for Iraq), Jeb Bush (would anyone ever vote for another Bush), Vilsack (pretty much unknown), Guiliani (a bad joke), Gingrich (a laughable buffoon), Romney (Mormons are not yet a majority), and who knows who else at the moment (mercifully Frist, Allen, Santorum, have already been rightfully laughed out of contention).

My shrinking old brain keeps whispering Al Gore for President and Bill Clinton for Secretary of State as perhaps our only hope.