Is it possible?

You'd have to have sworn a few years ago that the idea of one-world economic stewardship, by any one person or institution, was completely impossible. Capitalism defeated communism decisively when the Soviet Union came down, so it was inevitable that the lone remaining superpower would lead the rest of the world by the example of its free market system.

Now picture this. The world situation gets very bad as the repercussions of the financial crisis start reverberating into the "real world." There are food riots, protests against the G-7, and much finger-pointing. Everyone proclaims how the U.S. gov't bailed out Wall Street while letting "Main street" go downhill. The leaders of the world are at a loss what to do. Someone must step up to stop the downslide. How? Who? The how- by taking the same steps in every industry to "save" them as the U.S. gov't took in the financial sector. Of course. The who? Is there any doubt as to which party candidate will benefit from a bad economy during a Republican administration?

Is it possible what I am intimating? It doesn't seem so. It doesn't really seem possible for such an innocuous person. But the office frequently makes the man instead of the other way around.