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In fact, the terrifying thing about all these doodles by presidents is that they remind you that the president is an ordinary person doing exactly what you would do in the same situation. Somehow this is not reassuring. Sure, you want your president to be a guy that you can grab a beer with, but you don’t want him to have the same response you would have to a six-hour briefing on our foreign policy towards Estonia, namely, to start scratching the words “KILL ME KILL ME NOW OH SWEET MERCIFUL HEAVENS” into your pad of White House stationery.