Extraneous-1: Comments on Presidency of US, etc.

     Here's some extraneous opinions I've got on the Presidency and the current race for the Presidency:

1.  Donald Trump has held no political office that I'm aware of.  To be President, the candidate must know the national political system from the inside.  He doesn't have a major qualification.\

2.  Sometimes, an individual becomes President and hands off major responsibilities of the office to one of his lieutenants.  This is what I believe happened under the Second Bush.  He handed off to Big Business, esp. Haliburton Corp., decision-making responsibilities in the housing sector and in Iraq and other areas in the Middle East, via Dick Cheney.  That led to the financial crisis of 2008, I believe. I understand that the oil giants didn't even have to bid for the contracts awarded them.

3.   It's true (I believe) that  Hilary Clinton didn't do much as Secretary of State.  But I believe that position is largely honorary in recognition for a statesman's job well done during his career.  I don't think the Iranian Agreement has come this far due to Secretary Kerry's hard-work, but rather because the Pentagon is permitting it. 

      And should Biden become President, I would wonder when he would make a statement that puts his foot in his mouth akin to when the Russian President said some years ago, "We will bury you!"

4.  I think that big-business is putting up several candidates for President in the 2016 election, even now during the Republican Party nominating process.  Its aim is to control the country for several years to come, assuming one of them becomes President (as political parties have done in the past).And, if--all too often--some one of the big-business backed candidates were to become President, I think the poor and disenfranchised in the US will take to the streets--as in other countries --forcing unpredictable change in US society.

     I still advocate regional government, splitting the US into 3 segments. The country is so divided now that a federation with 3 independent segments, similar to the UK Commonwealth, makes perfect sense.  Be it noted that Scotland almost became an independent member of the UK Commonwealth in its recent elections.