weelittledrummer: good point. As I mentioned above, there are immediate interests, and long term interests, and as far as I can tell it is in the overall long term interest of the US and the world to have more unity in the world and less chance of major warfare.

Wolfgang: Also good point, I should have said monthly, or 'unspecified'. Every four years is a pretty lengthy and reasonable intermission of time, after all, we get a chance to reconsider our President every four years!

bunna-: typically 'anything' can't be legal under a constitution, which sets a barebones structure on which governments are defined.