Sunday, February 5, 2017

Defining the Presidency.

Transition, Transformation and Radical Thinking.

There are few things that are going to define the presidency. The first will take place around mid year or much later depending what states you are in. It is called Hurricane Season. For that reason, you need to pick your disaster management team with caution. If you look back to the Bush years (Walker-The Texas Ranger not Herbert) you will notice that everything was going great until Katrina Happened. Then some fissures appeared in the teams that had been put in place. But to be fair that was a disaster unlike any other but it still define a good part of the second term for that president and in a sense managed to fix the change message with the democrats picked up with glee. Al Gore who has also just recently lost a significant fight was also able to continue his march and message toward the effect on the Environment. In what could become a two term presidency therefore FEMA needs to be revisited. The second challenge will be about external pressure to engage with foreign military groups. Pulling back is good and helps focus energies on local challenges but your predecessor (The Texas Ranger) was very insistent on the need to take the battle to them as a means of preventing attack on local soil. Finding a balance for this strategic move will be important. My guess is that you will also need to revive the Faith Based Initiatives which i believe cover all bases and religions and were designed to simplify the relationship between people of faith and the practice of that faith. The next challenge will come (God forbid) should there be another incident in a school and will continue to challenge your belief and relationship with the Second Amendment. There was a brief scuffle in the midwest but this was not covered well by the media and in my view was probably the closest we came to applying the right to bear arms-which is mainly in my view supposed to apply to the need to create a militia should there be failures in government. The NRA will come to the fore again but your earlier position regarding gun control and background checks should help you in silencing of Ghosts of Presidencies Past. The manner in which the process of selecting a new head of state was altered in many ways and DJT did not seem to need to courtesy around the traditional lobby groups as did other presidents but the presence of a son in law will take this battle to anther level. If there are any deals (or past confrontations) that took place in NY (a heartland for Jewish thinkers) these could come back to haunt you. We already see this playing out with the media but we are almost certain that you are well placed to handle any fist fights from that section of the big apple. The press will start by hating you but later on they will come around and up their game.

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