If I were President: Part 1

I've had dreams about running for president. Like the kind when you're asleep, not the aspirations kind.

Each time, I see myself in a laid-back position. I suppose it's peacetime and good economy and all, so a candidate like that would have a decent chance. I always become pretty damn popular, but there's a sizable minority (far right people, in my dreams) that say I'm too uneducated about issues and indecisive and that I'd make a terrible president and such.

So this got me thinking, what if I was president? Would I be horrible? What would my goals be? If I had to manage a war, how would I do so?

And so I'll tackle what my main goals would be today.

I was actually asked this question in a dream debate. My answer was basically:
1. Be a better president than James Buchanan
2. Bring facial hair back to the presidency
3. Rise above factions and parties, like Chester Arthur

In actuality, all three of these would be important goals to me. As president, it would be important in my eyes to not be controlled by whatever party I ran for. I consider myself to be a fairly moderate individual and I would want to stay that way even if I got to live in the Executive Mansion. I would have to pick a Vice President aligned with the same party as I, for political reasons, but I would try to diversify my cabinet geographically and ideologically.

Being better than James Buchanan is really just a way to make me feel better about myself if I'm not perfect.

And I've already written a blog about the whole facial hair thing. But, damn, why not?