What Do You Want in a President?
If you were to ask anyone what they want in a President—not just the candidates that we have today, but in general—and you’re likely to get answers that match the qualities of the current candidates. But if you could press further into their thinking, and start to analyze qualities, I bet you’d find this to be true:
I want a candidate that would respond to situations like I would respond to them.
Because, when it boils down to it, I believe that we actually look for people that think and act like us. Which is why when someone connects with us, and we find them likable, we don’t have a problem seeing them in a position of power, but when we find someone that we dislike or disagree with we cannot see them leading us.
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McCain Afraid to Debate?
Unlikely. At least, that’s the word from former Pres. Bill Clinton:
"We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates," Clinton said, adding that he was "encouraged" by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
"You can put it off a few days the problem is it’s hard to reschedule those things," Clinton said, "I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted — I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don’t think we ought to overly parse that.”
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Obama the Humorless
When I was studying History of Civilization back in college one of the things that I noticed was that leaders of times passed had interesting names. These names were not ones that they claimed (though one could make the argument that Charlemagne could have picked “Charles the Great”) because of the way the names sometimes made fun of the person they were given to.
In this case, I’d like to submit:
Obama the Humorless
for consideration, especially if by some miracle he manages to become President.
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Why “Obama-Messiah” is an Effective Attack
A few weeks ago the news was awash with the idea that Sen. Obama was impossible to make fun of. Many late night comics were out saying they just couldn’t find anything that was that funny—or that they felt their audiences could laugh at.
Then Obama went overseas.
It was supposed to be a “win” for Obama—getting a chance to speak to foreign leaders and making him look more Presidential. Instead, it continued to feed into the notion that Sen. Obama believes that he’s already won the contest—and that really doesn’t endear oneself to voters.
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Does He Even Have a Chance?
I’m beginning to wonder if Barak Obama even has a chance of winning the election in the fall.
And I’m not saying this because of the possibility of a Michelle Obama “whitey” video or Hillary not closing down her campaign so their might be a ruckus in the fall.
I’m saying this because of a number of things:
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Do You Know this Man?
The man on your right—do you know who he is? What if I told you that he’s running for President of the United States of America?
The man on the right is U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, and he is the Libertarian Candidate, and he asked something of the Republican and Democrat candidates for President that I think that they should take him up on:
"In congratulatory letters I am sending, I challenge Senators Obama and McCain to meet me in weekly debates in cities across America with just the candidates and a moderator to keep order," former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr said in a news release on Wednesday.
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If I Were to Write Election 2008
This has been a strange time to be alive. Why do I say that? Because within my life time we’ve had:
- A President win almost all the states in the Union (Ronald Reagan).
- An impeachment of a sitting President (Bill Clinton).
- A successful recall of a Governor of California (Gray Davis).
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