The American presidency is a tremendous responsibility. It encompasses a vast range of powers and deals with issues encompassing both domestic and foreign policy. This preeminent constitutional position truly calls for our national best; our best in leadership, experience, knowledge, wisdom, strength, and humanity. Reflecting on even a few of the principal contemporary challenges facing the presidency, the larger-than-life nature of the requirements for the office immediately becomes clear. A list of contemporary challenges illustrating this point, prepared in the form of questions for the candidates, includes: