If the President of the US wants to be a leader of this country, then he shouldn’t be involved in politics.  We don’t elect the leader of the free world to cozy up next to all of his cronies and use every lectern as an opportunity to bash the other side.  Grow up, act as big as the office you hold, and lead from the center.  Sometimes the republicans are right, and sometimes the democrats are right.  Push for what’s right for the country, not what’s right for your party or your donors.  I can live with a president who has ideological differences from me, but I think it’s petty and shows a lack of vision to toe the party line in every case.

In addition, it is criminally wasteful to allow the president to campaign for other candidates.  That’s not his job!!!  I support a law making it illegal for elected officials to campaign on behalf of candidates at any level.  How many millions of dollars does it cost the president and his entourage to travel to who-knows-where Idaho to campaign for some idiot who obviously can’t hack it on his own?  I want the political party to pay me back for those tax dollars it cost me.  Have the president on screen through skype.  Or maybe he can get a free trial of gotomeeting.

Either way, the president, by definition, should be an a-political figure.  Anything else degrades the office.

p.s. This has nothing to do with President Obama.  All presidents do it (some are worse than others), and it sucks.

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