God, the whole Democratic Obama-Clinton drama is horrifying. There is real stuff happening in the world in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and everywhere else. Putting Obama or the Clintons in power scares the shit out of me. I’d be happy with Romney, McCain, Giuliani, or Thompson.
Right now I’m leaning toward Romney, but I’ve been all over the map. I like Mitt because he is one of the world’s most competent managers of large organizations. He’s not an idealogue. He doesn’t appear to be crazy. He’s a gee-whiz, Mormon kind of guy, but that’s OK. At various times though I have been for Rudy and McCain and Thompson. I guess I’m like the typical American voter. I want to go with a winner.
The thing is though, one of the main problems with the United States government is that, in the executive branch, the bureaucracy is more powerful than the executive. The CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, not to mention all of the domestic bureaucracies, rule. If anyone can deal with this, it is Mitt Romney.
I don’t think any President can overcome the bureaucracy that is embedded in the World today…It will take more than that…I think that the best that any individual can do is to create a bubble of protection around themself and realize that the only way things are going to get better is for things to really get better…otherwise you will find yourself going down a slippery slope blaming either the right or the left for the decisions that seem to be made by the few…