Americans expect their president to be better than them

Republicans have begun the argument that Palin's and McCain's flaws are actually pluses. McCain was a horrible student, that's a good thing - because Americans are bad students. Palin's daughter conceived out of wedlock? Super duper! 1/3 of Americans have kids before the age of 20. So I guess we can apply this to McCain being 72 years old and having had cancer 4 times? Lots of Americans have cancer and even more are elderly! Where is this going? As Jon Stewart said a few months back, he expects, we expect, our president to be smarter than us, better than us. You may want a president you can share a beer with, but when the North Koreans or the Iranians come calling, no one wants Bubba in the Oval Office. This is part of the reason sex scandals rock the political world in America, I think. Yes, we have all have our flaws, but we'd like to think that our politicians are better than us, can lead us to a better life. And when we find out they're human, it lets us down.