Before I answer that question (which question? -- oh, I mean the one about where he wants to be re-elected), let's talk about your professional football career, or absence thereof.

I know -- you can't run the 100 in 10 seconds, or you don't weigh 300 pounds of mostly muscle.  Excuses, excuses, excuses!  That's not why you're not a professional athlete.

Before I tell you why you really don't play professional sports, let's talk about yesterday's National Football League playoffs.  Did you watch either game?  Both were decided by physical and mental errors.  The Baltimore Ravens failed to unseat the New England Patriots in its pursuit of another Super Bowl. 

Here's how they failed: "New England escaped (with a victory) when Billy Cundiff [the Ravens kicker] hooked a 32-yard field-goal attempt wide left with 11 seconds remaining. [The field goal would have tied the score.] 'It’s a kick I’ve kicked a thousand times, and I just went out there and I didn’t convert,' Cundiff said."

But that wasn't the worst failure by a professional athlete in front of millions of TV viewers, his teammates, and his family yesterday.

No, that distinction belongs to San Francisco 49er Kyle Williams, who fumbled a punt after his teammates held the New York Giants on defense in overtime, thus giving SF a chance to win.  Instead, the Giants kicked the winning field goal after recovering Williams' fumble.

But that wasn't the worst mistake Williams made.  After all, he was running with the ball while trained professionals who spend every day lifting weights were trying to pull the ball from his arms.  Things happen.  Williams committed a worse error not long before, in the 4th quarter, while the 49ers were leading by four points. 

Here is that mistake:

Steve Weatherford hit a short, bouncing punt that Williams came up to try to field. He backed away at the last minute, but the ball glanced off his right knee and was recovered by Devin Thomas at the San Francisco 29. The play was originally not ruled a fumble but was overturned by instant replay.

After this fumble, the Giants scored a TD, leading to the overtime in which Williams actually fumbled the ball.  Did I mention that these miscues ruined an entire professional season for Williams and his teammates, and that he made them in front of millions of TV viewers?

What a dunderhead!  He should. . . well, I don't know what he should have done.

The two fumbles were remarkable because Williams hadn't done anything like that all year:

The fact that turnovers did in San Francisco was truly surprising. The 49ers tied an NFL record with just 10 giveaways all season - including none on special teams - and had a plus-28 turnover margin in the regular season. They took advantage of five New Orleans turnovers to win 36-32 last week but were on the wrong end in this game because of Williams.

How did Williams react to this spectacle, this life-scarring embarrassment?

In the locker room:

After the disaster, Kyle Williams dressed alone, yet he was very much exposed. The San Francisco 49ers moved quietly around their locker room, quickly pulling on clothes, packing travel bags and shuffling toward the door. They wore blank expressions. They spoke in hushed whispers. And they stayed far away from the wood and metal locker assigned to the man who kept them from Indianapolis. {The Super Bowl is in Indianapolis]

But Williams pulled himself together to speak with the press:

"You hate to be the last guy that had the ball, to give it away in that fashion and to lose a game of this magnitude," Williams said. "It is what it is. We're going to move forward as a team. Everyone has come to pat me on the back and the shoulder to say it's not me."

I mean, what else is he going to do or say?  If you return kick-offs, sometimes things like this happen. A number of years ago, a college football player attempted suicide after fumbling a kick-off.  (I daresay he didn't go on to play professional football.)  And at least one major league baseball player has had to quit because extreme anxiety made it impossible for him to play in front of tens of thousands of people in the stands, and potentially millions -- hundreds of millions during a World Series -- of TV viewers.

But, you know, you're probably a lot more like that guy than you are like Williams.  That's just a fact.  And that's why you don't play professional sports, or make Hollywood films -- which may cost a hundred million or so, but which can blow away on one weekend.

Or run for President.  Where something stupid you say offhand can obliterate your career, or where -- like Barack Obama -- you decide to increase the troop levels in Afghanistan, which created no seeming advantage for our country, but which resulted in numerous additional deaths of Americans and Afghanis -- perhaps.

You know, if you're going to lose sleep worrying over things like that, which apparently Obama doesn't, then it's better that you stay closer to home -- where it's safer.  Or at least millions don't know about your blunders.