If your ideal candidate could change 3 things--what would they be?

[Horse with no Name]

These are mine.


1. Cradle to grave Nationalized healthcare.
2. Guarantee civil rights for all Americans.
3. End war in Iraq.

[soleft]

1. what you said

cept I'd had human to #2

[KittyWampus]

2. Cut Defense Spending, Clean Up Elections, Break Up Media

[wtbymark]

3. to start?

rescind all the tax cuts on wealthy
restore environmental regulations with strict fines and no vouchers
throw NCLB in the toilet

[Mass]

4. As a start of a general move toward less poverty.

1 - Universal healthcare
2 - Focus on clean energy and environmental issues.
3 - Equal opportunity for education.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. end corporate welfare/personhood

equal rights for all americas (assured marriage of two americans not of blood realtion and legla consent, assured free health care, assured jobs, assured housing)

end private money for political campaigns....publicly fund fund campaigns equally for all candidates

[wuushew]

16. the blood relationship requirements are absurd in a free society

if we encourage genetic healthiness by avoiding inbreeding why are those with serious hereditary diseases allowed to procreate?

The eugenics angle is inconsistent. I for one favor no limits on the activities consenting adults can engage in be it drug use, polygamy or suicide.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

23. true

but I was just trying to make an appeal to the decent "moral values" folk (:puke:)

why? its more sellable...

[stellanoir]

6. 1) have

impartial international monitors over our elections

2) get the voting process out of partisan control

3) have voter verified paper ballots

Those three things would insure the implematation of your three. I guarantee it.

[blm]

7. Open up all closed books on IranContra and BCCI....that one act would

assure that no Bush ever again is allowed in ANY office and would expose to supporters of terrorists like Bin Laden that their supposed "leaders" have been in on it with the Bush gang for decades.

Then the Democrats could get everything else done while the worst of the Republican thugs rot in jail.

[ihaveaquestion]

8. I'm with you on your #1

My #2 and 3 are different...

2. Fully funded higher education through Graduate school.
3. Outlaw war completely, except for defense of the country after an outright attack by another country or organized well-defined group (and no, individual terrorists do not constitute an "organized well-defined group")

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. The top three of many...

1) Electronic voting reform
2) Fairness doctrine
3) Election reform (publically financed campaigns)

Without at least two of those three beind done, everything else -- civil rights, healthcare, enviro protection -- doesn't stand a chance.

[katsy]

10. Good question.

Publicly funded education K through college.

Nationalized healthcare.

Revoke corporate personhood.

[movie_girl99]

11. mine would be

1. National Health
2. more funds allocated to Education
3. no more war

[Sandpiper]

12. 1) Pare the Defense budget down to about 1/4 of its current size

2) Make Minimum Wage into a Living Wage

3) Universal Healthcare

[aikoaiko]

13. One of mine would be: Roll back gun control measures to NFA 1934

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[wryter2000]

14. I had a different list

But yours is so good. I guess I need more than three...

Collect some taxes from the rich and save our country from horrible debt.

Get out of Iraq.

Appoint good people to the federal courts, including SCOTUS.

[StellaBlue]

15. My family and I were talking about this just the other week!

1) Real campaign finance reform (i.e. no private money allowed, equal airtime/debate presence for ALL candidates; no ballot hurdles).

2) Universal healthcare. Period.

3) All Americans must pass a course in both elementary logic and evolutionary biology. Okay, maybe not... I can't remember what my third one was now... hmm...

[StellaBlue]

18. Yeah, I'll spring for

End personhood for corporations.

[political_invader]

17. Keep taxes collected for specific projects locked in.

2. Be honest and truthful, and disclose what big business influences are and what is needed to keep them in check.

3. Have a quarterly forum for "we the people" to participate in Gummit and be apprised to Gummit plans.

[DanCa]

19. Okay heres what I I want max clealand to do

1: No More Premptive Wars...period
2: Legal and free bioregenetive medicine - everything from abortion to stem cell - without posibility of it being over turned by any one
3: Religious Freedom for Aethiest, Gays and Pro Choice Christians, and other denominations too numerous too mention without leaving someone off the list.
Along with an ammendment that says we can smite the fundies verily for forcing whatever thing they worship down our throats non stop.

[longship]

20. Remember the four freedoms?

From FDR's 1941 address to Congress:

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change -- in a perpetual peaceful revolution -- a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions -- without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

That would be a good start.

[Name removed]

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[maine_raptor]

22. A bit more than 3, really, but here's my 2 cents

See this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4818709

Comments welcome.