Explain The Challenges And Threats To The Presidency

The presidency is both an exciting and a challenging job. One need not ask a past president about his experience and thoughts on running for and winning the presidency- there are always inherent struggles, challenges and threats to the presidency. For a start, presidents need to face his critics that always make the case that he is unfit for the presidency. There are other stakeholders and interest groups that will also try to contest the presidency and raise some issues. Also, the challenges to the presidency come in the form of public outcry for certain issues and poliy directions. But there are some cases wherein the challenges and threats are extreme- like an assasination attempt. Threats to life of the presidents are common in modern history and around the world. One of the earliest (and luckiest) cases of an assasination attempt was experienced by former
When the news of the failed assasination on President Jackson was made public, many supporters of the president attributed the event to pure divine intervention. Some of the supporters of the president made divine conjectures to explain what happened to their president. For others who are critical of the performance of the president, they said that the president deserved what he got on that day. There were even some talks about a conspiracy theory, wherein the attack on the president was orchestrated from inside. There was a thinking then that this was a planned move to swing public opinion polls in his favor.
Although there were wild talks during the time, there’s no denying the fact that what happened to Andrew Jackson was one for the books. Who would have thought that a sitting president will be attacked, and that there were two instances wherien the pistol was fired, and on both attempts, Andrew Jackson escaped unharmed? Some may say that it’s pure divine magic, but what’s obvious is that Andrew Jackson was one lucky guy to have survived this kind of