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Another man's dreams.
Jed POV
Have I let him down? I've won two elections, led not only America but also the world in times of trouble. I've publicly admitted my mistakes and lived to see another day and yet when we're standing face to face I can't help but feel inadequate.
Will it ever be enough for him? Will I? Do I do his ideas justice or just make him wish it were he with the seal on his carpet. The seal that grants the power he knows he'll never have. Since his days in the gutter he's known his chance was gone and now he lives through me. Without impudence, I know I'm not a lesser man but I will never be the great political mind that he would have been. That he still aspires to be.
There are times when I wonder what it would have been like if our roles had been reversed. Would our country be in better place? Would we? Maybe it wouldn't have been all that different. After all I don't kid myself that it's he who runs the show. I am mostly the puppet on the end of the almost invisible string. But I know the string's there. We all do – sometimes you have to look closely to see it but it's always there. Helping me to stand on my feet, catching me when I am close to falling.
Deep down I know he's doing it as much for me as for him. But sometimes it's hard. Living up to another man's dreams.