U.S. Presidency support and limit an ideal democracy.

 "When discontented groups express grievances, presidents often take to the media to mollify them"(p.163).   One way that the U.S. Presidency is known to support an ideal democracy is through sympathy.  Clinton was well known for his sympathetic ways which kept the peace of the public because they were under belief that it would be taken care of.  After sympathetically agreeing with groups to search into the problem, commissions are formulated  such as the Commission on Race. However, "after one year and many public meetings, the commission's report was ignored and quickly forgotten, like countless presidential commissions preceding it"(p.163).  So we can certainly say that the Presidency attempts to support an ideal democracy, but it seems that the majority of the time it reverts back to its own power of presidency as those groups are forgotten.
The limitations of the U.S. Presidency on an ideal democracy comes at a much heavier hand of information. "Presidents have expanded the power of the presidency by interpreting broadly their authority as commander and chief"(p.154). Through and through the presidents seem to limit themselves as they get almost power hungry, side stepping what a democracy is supposed to be rather and creating this mirage of a government rather than actually meeting it head on as was their assigned position. "They [the Founders] used the Constitution itself to expressly limit the powers of their own government officials"(Hornberger). These rules were set down for a reason. One because the population has never trusted a one supreme person making all the decisions, and two because democracy in any way that you look at it is a threat to freedom. 
Why do we allow the president to take more and more power away from the people?
My answer?....because the presidents one after the other have been able to increase their power without the people realizing.  Until now when the last two presidents are patronized for the way they handle the government. But nothing is being done to stop their power. They even have the ability to send troops across seas without congress conformation, although they do anyways but it seems like a show now instead of a need. 

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0100a.asp (Jacob Hornberger)