Originally Posted by guest

maybe the "threats" we're so afraid of...aren't real...maybe that is why none of the presidents attend them?

Huh? He "doesn't have the right" to take a call...remember...they called him...from taiwan? Who says that? You? If taiwan called me, i have the right to take it.

He "knows the job"...appoint who you're told to appoint, sign what you're told to sign, and travel around playing golf and meeting royalty at state dinners. What else is there?

You think the president sits behind a desk studying papers, making plans, creating his budget...etc? His whole day is scheduled...doing something. Meetings, calls, photos, dinners, trips. He's a figurehead, others do the thinking/lifting. He signs what they hand him, he says what they wrote.