Really? An executive position with hand-picked cronies support staff, round the clock security, housekeeping and kitchen staff, lifelong, top-shelf medical and pension is the toughest job in the world?

Tougher than being a private body guard in Iraq during an insurgency caused by a mismanaged war? Really?

Tougher than being a coal-miner working during an administration with relaxed health and safety standards?

Maybe being a sweatshop employee in China might be a bit more difficult, dontcha think?

Calling the US Presidency the “toughest job in the world” is a self-aggrandizing statement that sounds ripped from the pages of a United States high school civics book from the 1970′s.

Or does anyone really think that Career Politician is really more “tough” than inner city teacher, high-rise firefighter, underwater rescue worker, slaughterhouse line worker….

Yawn.

O RLY? I never would have guessed.

and housing and urban development.

Yeah … whom the President has to pick, whom the president has to make sure are both doing their jobs and doing them in accordance with the President’s mission (That was why Christine Whitman ended up leaving … her wishes for environmental policy didn’t match with W. Bush’s), and who the President gets blamed for if they ever fuck up. (See Ronald Reagen and Donald Regan.)

Not to mention a press secretary to take the heat from the media (which at this point, is barely lukewarm).

Yeah, so? I’m a journalist in Delaware. Of the three Delaware federal legislators I have the business cards of each one of their public relations person. Not THEM (even though I’ve gotten to speak personally with two of them), their public relations person. Even some town mayors have them. And actually, all those Congresspeople? They have whole COMMITTEES of folks doing various work for them – fact finding, talking with the media, talking with lobbyists. And every member of the cabinet also has a whole staff of people to run.

And let’s not forget that, according to the Constitution, the President can’t actually do anything unless Congress says it’s OK.

Please. If that were true this “war” in Iraq would have been over 60 days after it started, as would the Vietnam “War” but ah, that whole “executive order” thing tends to screw up plans …

Oh, and technically the Congress has to go through the President to do anything, too. The veto overturning is possible, but pretty damn difficult to do.

Hillary’s statement is like a Beverly Hills mother of one with a full time nanny, housekeeper, driver and personal chef saying, “Being a mom is so demanding!”

That analogy only makes sense if most of the legislators in America worked without a staff and a public relations person but … like I said before, they DON’T.

Don’t these people have to read the Constitution? I had to pass a Constitutional knowledge test to get my teaching lisence. These people should have to do the same before they’re allowed to even run for office.

My minor was in political science – I took a class called “The Presidency”. Now, I’ll grant you that in terms of difficulty, the Chief of Staff probably has it the hardest in the executive branch. They usually never last in office throughout the whole administration. (Although s/he still doesn’t get the heat, which is why we weren’t hearing “DAMN THAT ANDREW CARD!” for six years.) Also, American presidential power isn’t as substantial as the super-presidencies that the heads of state for France and Russia enjoy.

But talking like the whole position is sitting on your butt eating Cheeto’s and pressing red “NUKE ‘EM” buttons? Claiming that a survey is harder than being the president? Doesn’t make you look smarter than a lady who actually got to see what being the President is like up close.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve never chaired a committee on anything.