This is Pressure?

Gail Collins over at the New York Times begins her latest column with an astonishingly stupid comment, even for a lefty.

About the latest Democrat debacle -- I mean debate -- she writes:

Hillary Clinton stood on a stage for two hours Tuesday night, being yelled at by six men. Now this is what they mean by pressure.

That is pressure?  Ohh puhlease.

Here's pressure:

You are President of the United States, and you are reading a children's book to a class in Florida, and your Chief of Staff steps up and whispers in your ear that the World Trade Center has been hit by an airplane.  You are in a classroom full of kids, and you must restrain the desire to turn and say "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Within a half hour, you hear that another plane has just flown directly into the south tower, that several planes in the air are not reachable, that your Vice President has been whisked to the bunker (and I am sure his feet barely touched the floor on the way), and that a plane has also crashed into the Pentagon.

The lead agent on your protective detail has just thrown you into the limousine, and you are forced to inhale the odors of Dupont stainproofing on the carpet.  The Air Force wants your ass in the air -- and they aren't making a suggestion.

Your nation has just been attacked in the most egregious terrorist attack in sixty years.

It's game time.

THAT IS PRESSURE.

Anyone that thinks six men yelling at you is pressure has never had dinner at my grandparents, or had a holiday dinner with my mother, my Uncle Doug, and my Uncle Bob.  That is nothing.

And if you cannot stand up to the rigors of the debate and campaign trail, you most certainly should not be President.

Because the President really is a "decider", not a "doer".  It's the hardest part of command -- ordering others into harm's way to execute a decision YOU made while you SIT and WAIT.  And once that order is given-- to paraphrase Ike -- a Private or a Corporal has more influence over the outcome than any General or President.  And sometimes, they can really frack it up (see Brown, Mike and Chertoff, Michael).

THAT IS PRESSURE.

Gail Collins should get over it.  If she can't stomach watching Hillary taking a justified beating on her positions -- then maybe she should expect more from the candidates vying to be our next president.