By Patricia L Johnson

National Journal released its updated rankings on Democratic candidates on February 15, 2007 and the numbers fell as follows:

DEMOCRATS

1. Hillary Clinton
2. Barack Obama
3. John Edwards
4. Bill Richardson
5. Christopher Dodd
6. Tom Vilsack
7. Joe Biden
8. Wesley Clark
9. Dennis Kucinich
10. Mike Gravel

The fact that Wesley Clark hasn’t entered the race yet apparently doesn’t have any bearing on his rank.

Republican rankings lag as one party is updated one week, then the other:

REPUBLICANS

1. John McCain
2. Mitt Romney
3. Rudy Giuliani
4. Sam Brownback
5. Chuck Hagel
6. Newt Gingrich
7. Mike Huckabee
8. Tommy Thompson
9. Duncan Hunter
10. Jim Gilmore

We have so many candidates and potential candidates that maybe it’s time to think about an entirely different concept in the White House. 

The complexities of running an entire country the size of the United States should not be left to one person, or one party. 

If the laws of our country have to be interpreted by a panel of nine on the Supreme Court, why it is that the future of our country is left to one President with the power to rewrite our laws with the stroke of a pen, otherwise known as an Executive Order?

Maybe it is time for us to look at the absolute power we are providing the person sitting in the chair in the Oval Office and perhaps delegate the authority of the office to several people instead of one. 

We already know the results of the power of one!