@hightor,
hightor wrote: The big problem is the with the presidency – four years (more like three years of productive work and one to campaign for re-election) ...
True, but when you compare American campaigns to those in other countries, you'll notice that period in the USA lasts an absurdly long time.
(Other countries strictly limit election spending, and if campaigns don’t have ridiculous amounts of funds pouring in, they have to have shorter campaigns. But that's a different topic.)