Originally Posted by Melodi Originally Posted by

I would be concerned for her health actually; "concerned" in terms of being President; it is an open secret that she has a tendency to angry outbursts (many politicians do, but normally they have to keep it off the public stage) however she did have surgery for a brain something or other. One symptom of continued issues can be extreme angry tantrums or outbursts and that can even happen with normally calm people; it may be hard to tell given her past reputation, but it does not bode well for the future.



I mean all things aside, I wouldn't want ANYONE in the Oval office with physical brain issues of this sort; Reagan was bad enough (again not his fault but it is now well known he had Dementia before the end of his second term) but at least his was the milder type - he could still get up a read a speech and there had not been a couple of President's worth of badly functioning White Houses behind him (I consider both Bush II and Obama to be disasters in terms of things running smoothly - Bush II was almost certainly back on the booze by the end and Obama just seems to prefer watching football and play golf).



There is ever indication that Reagan was hands on during his first term and so when he gradually faded during his second there was still an sort of operation procedure going on - it wasn't perfect and the Neo-Cons really got their start then; but it wasn't the totally out-of-control situation that could have occurred.



The last days of Nixon are a good lesson of what can happen when a President is out of control, talking to pictures of dead Presidents and hiding under the desks; the country can't handle that right now.