re: #468 Targetpractice

So he was leaving open the possibility, drawing a six-figure salary, and ultimately profiting off the decisions made…but he can’t be held responsible for them.

Yet another reason that you can’t run a government like a business, because when you’re sitting in the Oval Office, when the people you appoint screw things up, it always ends up on your desk. It may not be right, it may not be fair, but that’s how it works.

Precisely…POTUS is a working, full-time position, though it might not seem to be sometimes; hell, one doesn’t need to look any further than to how most Presidents age very rapidly and before their time while in office (Clinton, W, and even Obama bear this out); it is not and cannot be a figurehead position.

Romney, at the very least, is out of his element and in over his head in wanting this position, IMO.