With Super Tuesday over and the 2008 election season in full swing, candidates on both sides are making promises we know they won’t keep, proposing programs they have no idea how to manage and hurling scornful accusations at each other with equal abandon, I don’t think I’m alone is saying I’m sick of the lot of them.
I know it’s not rational, but what I want is one of those Presidents you see in the movies or on television. You know the ones. the wise older leader, honorable, heroic, decisive. The kind of person who can throw bad guys out of Air Force One as its in flight and still keep his tie on. I think of characters played by Harrison Ford… Morgan Freeman… even Martin Sheen… That’s the leader I want. (more…)
