WW--It Doesn’t Matter Who Is President

~All leadership is appointed by God, not men, anyway.
~The real strength of America is not in its Presidents, but in its people.
~We can endure and survive anyone. Conservatives endured Clinton. Liberals endured Reagan.
~The whole purpose of the Constitution is to make it so that it matters very little who is running the show.
~Our real concerns should be on the kingdom of heaven, which can survive and thrive in any environment. After all, what did Jesus care about politics?
~Whoever gets elected will, by definition, have won a fairly long and difficult process which by its very nature vets the candidates to eliminate the fruitcakes.
~One bad President won’t destroy too much.
~The President has so little daily power because so much of his time is taken up by dignitary functions and delegated to subordinates.
~He can’t do anything really without Congress, which matters much more than does the President.
~God can work through anyone, and if you say He can’t, what does that say about His power?
~It’s easier to submit to and pray for our leaders when you take this approach.
~Too much emphasis on who becomes President is what leads you to become vicious and partisan against the other one.

Post-Show Thoughts: People truly do overestimate the importance of the President, at least in contrast with how little attention is paid to Senators, House members, and politicians at the local and state level. Furthermore, politicians are not the most important people anyhow. All that being said, the President is very important because he makes the biggest decisions and represents such a massive chunk of power at the federal level, even moreso because our government functions in such an extra-constitutional way. But the easiest element of this question to see is that in the next 8 years somewhere between 2 and 6 Supreme Court justices will retire, and given the prominence of the Court in modern politics, this is huge. One more President with the right justices being nominated will really do a lot for some of the major social issues, particularly abortion. Also, the Bible is so clear about the blessings of good leadership and the burdens of bad leadership. If God would hold nations accountable for their bad leaders under monarchial systems, just think of what He might do under democratic ones.

Links on presidency:
The case for Supreme Court term limits by OpinionJournal.com