Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnder View Post
Yeah, cause Gaara is a regular class president.

Being a Kage is more about being the most powerful ninja in the village than it is about anything else.

From everything I've seen, is appears that the office of Kage is not so much about being a wise, effective ruler. It's about taking the biggest badass your village has to offer and making him The Face of your village, to show the world that you are not to be fucked with.

Why else would Konoha's top two choices for Hokage after the 3rd's death be two people who had all but abandoned the village are known to be irresponsible. It's because their fearsome reputations as Sanin was what really mattered.
Gaara's psycopath youth dropped the villiage to its knees in terror before him. What he lacks in charisma he makes up for in "I will fuck you up bad". Not in power necessarily, but in reputation.

And my comment wasn't about Kakashi's ability to be a Hokage. Clearly they were about to put him in office. I was talking about how good effective an Hokage he would be compared to everyone else.

You can build that level of attraction through power, but at the same time you can also scrub it all out with a "I don't give a fuck" attitude. Unlike Tsunade, Kakashi doesn't have a servant to keep him on track neither. Gai... would probably drag him out to contests rather than drag him back to the paperwork.