Yeah, it's the cult of the Great Leader, the Superman, the Emperor, the Fuhrer Americano...but renewable or changeable every 4 years, that's all. It's horrifying to anyone who watches it from outside American borders, but seems to be taken for granted within them, at least by a sizeable majority of American citizens.

"Hail to the Chief" Sounds just like...you know what.

What would they ever do if a woman got elected? Would her husband get to be "first husband"? Ha! Ha! Just imagine. :-) India, Canada, and the UK have all had a female chief executive before and managed just fine, though in Canada's case it didn't last long. So have many other places. But not fortress America. The Great White Father still reigns supreme in the 50 states, dispensing beads and blankets in exchange for total hegemony over the savages in the unsettled lands yet to be taken around the World in order to fulfill America's manifest destiny and save everybody. Yeah, right.