Just thinking...

Can you tell I've had a lot on my mind? (And my son is taking really long naps. That is the only way I can post!) I was just thinking...

What it would be like to be the first President in the 21st Century. We have never before had such ability and accessability to scruitinize every single move our Commander and Chief makes. The internet. Youtube. Google. The era of Instant Media. Even President Clinton was on the beginning of the technology age. Can you imagine how much worse the "Monica-gate" would have been with Youtube? It makes you wonder, with how quick we get information, how much faster the government and President has to make decisions. We have immediate intelligence, which can change in an instant. Presidents of the 18th Century, Washington and Adams, had months to methodically react to world and local events. Presidents of the 19th Century, Lincoln and Grant, also had weeks to plan and plot the movements of the Civil War. Presidents of the 20th Century, FDR and Kennedy, were given some breathing room to not give knee-jerk reactions, which avoided major catastrophe's. But as I've watched the Bush Presidency, I've almost pitied him for welcoming this new wave of politics. Not only is he put under an extremely focused microscope, he doesn't have as much time-luxary as previous Presidents, who are only now being more scruitinized. Can a 21st Century President be successful? Or will the technology age essentially assassinate each President?