Thank you, Jack, for your penetrating (if fanciful)analysis of my motives for my original post. Your personal attack on me and the generally vitriolic tone of your posting is also noted, with regret. In my third post to this thread I think I made clear my admiration for the American political system as originally intended. Did you read it? I also have great admiration for the ordinary people of the USA, and I have tremendous faith in their wish to change what has become a system which is no longer fit for purpose. This task is made much more difficult by the stranglehold that the vested interests I listed appear to have upon the system as it currently stands. Hence my question about whether the Presidency is obsolete; from an outside perspective, the ability of any President (irrespective of political persuasion) to change things is severely limited.
Please stop making your unwarranted personal attacks on me. I think that the debate this has stimulated is worth better than that from you.