Why anyone would want to be President sometimes baffles me. All you get is folk Monday-morning quarterbacking everything, and there's a LOT of everything to jab.

Occasionally we should all take a look at the "org chart" of the US Government - just that section within the Executive Branch - 15 Departments and 93 Independent Agencies/Government Corporations. Within the Departments are another few dozen agencies as well. That's what the Chief Executive is responsible to oversee.

Time management, reliance on staff and experts, and sheer will is necessary to keep from losing control - and they all do at some point. Superman hasn't been on the ballot yet (and can't - he's an alien(lol)) No where else on this planet is a Chief Executive's decisions (certainly not in the corporate world) under so much scrutiny.

This is not necessarily the job for a purely "smart" person. I know many folk with multiple Ph.D.s who would crack after the first fortnight under the pressure. A "strong" person with hard-core management skills, willing to take on the sheer size of the Executive Branch and the myriad of competing interests - all demanding extensive face-time - is mandatory.

Information management, time management, skilled staff and experts, and a strong gut is what keeps the Executive Branch functional. Expecting a president to be expert at most of the functional areas, and fully cognizant of "everything that is going on" is ludicrous.

While its easy to horse-whip the captain of a ship for everything that happens within it, it's unrealistic as well. So, expecting a political Messiah to "make everything better" is naivete at its highest.

If you think it can be done, just look at the org chart(s) involving the Executive Branch, and come up with how you would time-manage it all so that you "knew everything going on..."