The American Voter’s need to relate with the President

Why does the American voter feel the need to relate to the President and do anything with him? Why do we feel we need the President to be like us and yet we elect ones that are nothing like us. We elected one, eight years ago that people felt they could have a beer with, now we are rooting for one who according to Amity Shales (author, columnist and senior fellow, CFR):

Women want to have fun with other women. Palin seems like someone you would run a 10k with.

Are you kidding me, you wanna have fun with her invite her to your house for drinks, arrange a get-together with your kids, run that 10K you want to with her or better yet go on that moose hunt, why do you want to vote as my VP??

This constant need to be able to relate with the President is giving us one mediocre President after the other. I admire the American, can do spirit, as much as the other guy but don’t tell me that everyone is cut out to be the President. If by chance we do come across somebody who may be smarter then us we deride him as “Elitist”, we complain “he talks to us instead of talking with us”. The last president that we felt we could relate to, happened to be of the same caliber as the rest of us and therefore, his gift to us is an unfinished war, record deficit, mounting debt, crumbling infrastructure, lost jobs, a weakening economy and an inability to solve our problems because he turned us into sulking children who cannot talk through our problems. His solution to all our problems was tax cuts and more tax cuts. Forget about the fact that soon we would not have any income to pay taxes on.

How about this time we elect somebody who is, better then us. Who is, more capable then us. I don’t want a drinking buddy or a running mate or a hunting partner, I need a President who will make sure 4 years later I will still have a job.