The pilot episode of The West Wing creates a very stereotypical image of the president. He is an older man who appears to have a lot of money and is a fatherly well-bred person. The image of the president is very realistic because most presidents have been fathers and even grandfathers (similar in this case) and are well-bred men. However in these roles, there has never been a woman. Surely a woman can run for president, but there has yet to be one. I feel that someone should put a female president in the role, just to get opinions on what they think would happen. Would she be a motherly leader or would she be different? But those are gender roles, which are another story, but I think it is realistic for a woman to be president and I find it interesting that no one has thought to do that yet. I am not very educated in what each and every president has done, but I am sure that they all did something successful in their time in office. I also think that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second bill of rights should have continued to exist. The ideas are so idealistic, but simple because I think that they could be done. I feel that it is what the United States has been wanting for a long time, and I don’t see any problem with bringing it up again. Employment with a living wage, housing, medical care, education, social security, and freedom from unfair competition and monopolies are what made up this second bill of rights. I feel that these are the big things that our society wants today. So why can’t we? Who cares if we are called socialist? It’s what the people want isn’t it? We would still have our normal rights and freedoms wouldn’t we? Why has this bill of rights been pushed aside? I would want to move to other countries with these rights if they still had the same rights that the United States has. I feel that our country should give us rights to our basic needs.
