Muscle Poems

What to say, what to say… well, I could write a list.

Maybe it would be a powerful list, with actual things I could get around to accomplishing. Let’s see… something to accomplish that would be powerful.  Ah, of course! Nowhere else to look. A list of, not my agenda,  but an actual description of what a President should do.  Since so many of us think it’s the only way to move up, let’s break this down.  Let’s go,  down,  to the nitty gritty.

So, what defines the modern Presidency these days? If you look at our current media-phoric contenders, you’d see them saying so many things against the other contender! It seems that they require the other contenders to imminently fail so that they can  succeed.  Do I think this makes people pay attention?  Sure. Do I think it means anything?  Not at all.

So, what makes a “real” President?  Or should I point the angle thus: what is the Presidency and what does it require of its stalwart electorate, whether they exist there for 4 years or not? Now, I realize I’ve been clearing my throat here, so let’s get that Honey Do list going. In the land of opinions,  anyone who’s got one goes. 

To actually be able to effect a Presidency,  I believe some essential factors should be understood.  This is not a time period to compare yourself in order to define yourself in contrast to just any mediocrity. 

As soon as you are in office,  the Presidency requires you to handle any active conflicts going on.  You know,  the most immediate threat to the nation’s security.  You should be prepared to respond before it becomes a national emergency we always fear, not just your own personal crisis with image anxiety.  Prevention of any threat to your image would lie in the fact that maybe you care nothing about the image,  but about everybody else.  Their welfare,  I mean.

You are in office to respond to matters at hand that are crucial and crisis oriented.  The staggering threats,  the equilibrium you need,  and the help to and of others that we hope you haven’t burned a bridge to, long ago.  Think of the Presidency as a caretaker role,  assuming all due respect for those with the experience,  with whom you need good relationships so you can rely on them and not just your “role.”

You may see that any other promise you make to people will surely be broken right upon entering the role,  as crisis seems to make its way into the reality of the position.  Once you are actively engaged in problem solving the matters you couldn’t have predicted coming at you on a daily basis,  maybe then you can define nothing other than the Constitution and what it means to uphold the rule of law and the preamble where it says, “We the People.” And where we can agree that “we hold these truths to be self-evident.”

And, as far as your own words and standing by them,  decide to do something more potent than your speeches.  Let them arise after you fall.  And allow your actions to speak before you.