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why do you think it is the indivdual person who is so important? why is obama's personality or mc-cain's personality such a big deal? an administration is assembled along ideological and affinity (patronage) lines and operates collectively--with a vertical hierarchy--but still collectively--as vacant as i consider cowboy george to be, his administration was not deducible from his personality and has turned out to be far different (and more dangerous and incompetent) than his personality would have given any of us reason to expect (at least the first time--the second was mostly fear-mongering and machine politics in the ugliest possible sense that explains it).
geez pan, you act like a royalist, in that it's the person of the king who represents the unity of the state. maybe you are a royalist, in that tv kinda way.
but i don't think that corresponds to how anything actually happens, except for tv images--they happen that way, they focus on the individual person of the president, they would pitch you toward a basic misunderstanding of how the system operates.
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