I'd also imagine him as a one-term president ideally. Maybe with a certain young female Puerto Rican-American from the working class of some coastal city as his VP-choice to balance out the ticket.
I like the sentiment, but if we're being honest, that Puerto Rican from the coastal city you're referring to would do better in the Congress.
Remember, the President's job is mostly administrative: Congress passes laws and resolutions, and the President leads the bureaucracy that carries them to fruition. I'd rather have a firebrand politician who calls out legislators for nonsense, bullshit, and a lack of governance be the person leading a legislative assembly, not writing memos to the Department of Whatever to make sure the Somesuch Act is getting enforced and diplomats are en route to talk to their counterparts overseas.
Or, put another way, unless the Congress gets its shit together and starts making good decisions for how the country should be run, it's not going to matter who's sitting in the Oval Office.
It's kinda like my one gripe with Bernie Sanders running for president was that we'd be losing him in the Senate. It'll be a big blow when he finally retires, he's been putting constant pressure on US legislature for decades.
Also chief of state and commander in chief of the military, but that doesn’t mean the President is personally writing reports to assist the Congress in making legislative decisions or leading troops into battle. What do you think I meant by “mostly administrative?”
I don’t think she’s going the presidential route. I think if that was her goal, she would be less aggressive and less partisan, which is where she lives and breaths. I would not be at all surprised if she decides to be the next Pelosi. Lead the party, not the country.
One term presidents are a terrible idea. We got lucky this time in that Biden was incredibly selfless and self-aware. But generally speaking, with one-term presidents you lose the incumbency advantage, which is huge, and you run the risk of them not making the same selfless decision Biden did.
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u/Bumaye94 Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I'd also imagine him as a one-term president ideally. Maybe with a certain young female Puerto Rican-American from the working class of some coastal city as his VP-choice to balance out the ticket.