HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT

[Donovan]

The Executive branch should not have as much power as it does. I don't want a king or queen sitting on a throne. America broke away from that type of government years ago.

Fully in agreement but appreciative of the irony that most of the ridiculous levels of power currently enjoyed by the President were signed into law by fellas named Bush. We have currently a president who wields, all at once, more power and less power than any other comparable world leader. And considering what we allow him legally to do under such fun things as the Patriot act, and considering that we have a congress who explicitly stated their goal was to stop anything from getting done (in what bizarre world job is THAT ok?), we have a sitting president who has shown remarkable reflection and restraint. Extraordinary restraint in fact.

Later down the line, regardless of who wins, we may not be so lucky. All three branches of government have become bloated with the power we gave them in our insatiable desire to find someone to blame when shit goes wrong. Every time the toilet doesn't flush or the internet goes down or some foreign office gets bombed, we scream "Why didn't the guys at the very top DO something about this travesty?!" Our government is led by people, not Santa and his elves. They can't grant magic wishes. But we ask them to.

Maybe the government wouldn't be all up in our goddamn business so much if we each took a little personal accountability for our own communities and stopped asking them to do so much of everything.

Then we might actually be able to elect someone besides whoever makes the best bullshit promises.