"sfb" wrote in message news:PjDTe.22760$Sx4.19227@trnddc06...
One problem the United States has in the world is the foreigners think the
President is some sort of King with divine powers that can make things
happen instantly. It is amazing how many US citizens seem to make that
same mistake.

Most, it seems, including most youths, but also many that are WAY beyond
knowing better.

"Mr. President, Please Make Us Proud." That was the cover story in the
January 28 issue of Parade, the

nation's most widely circulated magazine with 37 million copies distributed
inside Sunday newspapers. The magazine had asked "teens across America"

what they would "ask our new President to do for them [and] their families,
schools and communities."

And boy, did the teens have ideas. They seemed to regard the new president
as a combination of Superman, Santa

Claus, and Mother Teresa.


http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v23n4/boaz.pdf