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Anything But Bush!

John McCain.

gee, i'm just overly-inspired with happy joy-joy feelings about posting a response here considering your fair and balanced approach to this question.

But to humor you, I do agree with your second paragraph.  The wife and i were talking about this very subject saturday.  We wondered what it would be like if the compaign format in this country changed.  We imagined a single, dedicated TV/Internet channel devoted to giving small, 30 or 60 second video or sound bites for each candidate who wishes to run for an elected office.  Then having a unique, highly secure identification device (card with alpha-numeric id) that allows you to vote via the internet or other electronic means..along with the current paper voting format.  Such voting should allow for a public display of votes based on the ID used to authenticate said votes so there's real transparency. 

Further, campaigning should be limited to the medium mentioned above and this would let each candidate say a very minimal message.  A primary round based on region or party could then be employed to limit the amount of candidates.  Further air time can be given for debating and other talking point distribution so as to help voters pick their candidate prior to the official election.  Electoral college voting would be gone, popular votes would decide the winner.  Good times.  Also, raising funds for or using funds for your election should be a disqualifier.

This is how things are done in local communities in Brazil.  It's very crude and simple, but it's fair.  Brazil is no beacon of political success, but it's campaign model is far more fair than ours.


Who would I like for president?  I've always like Wes Clark.  On his sight, I noticed he shares many of the political beliefs I share, he's amazingly intelligent, well versed, understands history very well, and of course he has a military background that was successful in my opinion.  I think I would have like Colin Powell before he was tainted. 

hey, i think there was a thread like this just last week...damn..probably closed now..

Personally I think it should be required for the Presidant to have served atleast 10 years in the U.S. Military, but thats just me.

Anyone more to the left of Bush.  McCain would be cool.

Hillary cause she's sssssssoo hot!!!!!

Colbert for 08

Actually, i don't think it matters if a comedian ran for president.  It would be difficult for such a president to find audience for his trade, but he could do at least as good a job as...other presidents.

In reality, you don't need a politician with a single hour of political office in his/her resume to be a good president.  Someone loyal to the basic foundation of this country, it's people, and the purpose of this country is ALL you need.  Seriously, you're going to have a cabinet surrounding you, a congress opposing or supporting you...the president need only be able to think on his feet, do well on TV, and put the interests of his country first.  For some reason, people have these false ideas about what a president should be...military?  former senator, governor, embassador?  doesn't matter.  I saw Michael Douglas in the movie "American President" and I watched the short-lived series "commander in cheif" with geena davis..and frankly, both of them could be an excellent president based on their characters and the scripts someone wrote for them.

I was president once.




True story.

IRONCHEF wrote:

Actually, i don't think it matters if a comedian ran for president.  It would be difficult for such a president to find audience for his trade, but he could do at least as good a job as...other presidents.

In reality, you don't need a politician with a single hour of political office in his/her resume to be a good president.  Someone loyal to the basic foundation of this country, it's people, and the purpose of this country is ALL you need.  Seriously, you're going to have a cabinet surrounding you, a congress opposing or supporting you...the president need only be able to think on his feet, do well on TV, and put the interests of his country first.  For some reason, people have these false ideas about what a president should be...military?  former senator, governor, embassador?  doesn't matter.  I saw Michael Douglas in the movie "American President" and I watched the short-lived series "commander in cheif" with geena davis..and frankly, both of them could be an excellent president based on their characters and the scripts someone wrote for them.

I'll agree with you on this one. The president is mostly just a puppet and a spokes person. He is fed information by other people and his speeches are also written by someone else. I think this is the biggest problem everyone has with Bush. He smiles and laughs during serious topics which in turn, makes people hate him. There's a time and a place for jokes and laughing. Bush seems to forget that. His foreign policies are probably 20% his and 80% his elected official's.

I think instead of trying to find a good canidate, we need to bring back the ancient greek (athenian) idea of ostracism.  Once a year everyone get's to vote on exiling a politician from the country for 10 years

That should clean things up a bit.

fadedsteve wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Bush just got assassinated on TV over here in Europe. Sweet.

Is that a freeze dried bull dick in your mouth??

STFU!

Hahaha!

You're a cock.