President Sully (?)

   For many years working in journalism, I almost never made predictions of any kind, especially about politics.
   Now, however, it's time to consider the likelihood of a President Chesley Sullenberger.
   Who?

   Many will remember the incident where a passenger plane took off from a New York City airport and almost immediately collided with a flock of geese, resulting in the loss of power in both engines.
   The pilot took control, circled back and carefully set the aircraft down on the Hudson River.
   No one was seriously hurt, and all were rescued as they stood on the airplane's wings or waited in the water for small boats to take them ashore.
   The pilot was the last to leave the airplane, making sure that all the passengers and crew were first to be rescued.
   Yes, that Chesley Sullenberger (Sully to his friends).

   Saturday evening, on an MSNBC television interview about a book Capt. Sullenberger has written, the host asked a final question about the pilot's political plans, if any, since the book is partly about politics and the state of American culture.
   Sullenberger noted that he had spent many years as a Republican, but recently left the party, and as for his own political future, his response was to ask again after Tuesday, Election Day.

   How much of a jump, then, is it to predict that Sullenberger has plans to get into political activity in a big way?
   He is well known, extremely well spoken, knowledgeable, and works well under pressure. (That may be the understatement of the decade, if not longer.)
   Now the question becomes whether the current occupant of the Oval Office will have the cojones to criticize and attack the pilot of what was called The Miracle on the Hudson.