a. the royalist view of the presidency is derived from television's presentation of the office.
b. that view follows from the nature of the medium of television, not from the characteristics of the office of president
c. what it seems you want, pan, is a fully articulated television image of El Jeffe---since tv came to prominence as a medium, that process of Imagine Construction is a perk of being in office---no-one has that image before they get to office--reagan, whom i loathed then and loathe still, didn't--no-one has it. so you're asking that someone actually *be* the way that person will subsequently be constructed as being by the major opinion co-ordinating device in the united states.
but that's an image.
no-one is like that sort of image.
it's better to look at television images of power in the way one looks at socialist realist images of stalin.
