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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:33 PM
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If you ran for President?
I'd run on a platform of:

Public finance of campaigns/elections.
Public vote counting.
Public health insurance system.
An economy based on environmental clean up and sustainability.
Illegal to profit from war.

And you?
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jannyk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:36 PM
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1. I'd run on telling the Truth.
No more lies, platitudes disinformation.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:42 PM
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4. I'm with you....
honesty is getting as rare as hen's teeth...my ears perk right up when i hear it, with all the bullcrap i've been subjected to..I have a new understanding for 'rings true'.
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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:39 PM
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2. If I ran for president my wife would kill me!
Can you imagine the hell it would be to run for president of the USA

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bammertheblue Donating Member (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:42 PM
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3. Most important to me?
Edited on Fri Dec-02-05 11:43 PM by bammertheblue
Using of ALL resources (intelligence, debate, inspections, etc etc etc) before war is acceptable. (Preferably, never).

Paper ballots, open vote counting, NO MACHINES.

Environmental responsibility- alternative fuel sources

Health Insurance for everyone

And of course, Abortion and birth control rights

and gay marriage.

Also, deport Ann Coulter. Just kidding......

Of course I could NEVER run for office. I've got too much dirt in my past. Oh yes, there are pictures, ha ha ha.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:06 AM
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11. Dude!!! You've got my vote!!!


Of course I could NEVER run for office. I've got too much dirt in my past. Oh yes, there are pictures, ha ha ha.


:rofl:


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bammertheblue Donating Member (391 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:24 AM
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13. Thanks!
Hee hee hee
:beer: :headbang:
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:47 AM
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14. Of course,
I want to see those photos!!!

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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:43 PM
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5. It's all about values
Edited on Fri Dec-02-05 11:44 PM by ih8thegop
Democracy (i.e. proper counting of votes)
REAL supoport for our troops (bringing them home)
Making sure our kids are SMART
Cleaning our planet

Etc.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:45 PM
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6. FREE HEALTH FOR ALL(boom)!! (repeat... ... ... ... )
and at a quicker tempo HEALTH CARE NOW! (repeat... ... ...)

I'd have crowds of millions with torches and signs pushing for the national healthcare system.

I would say "This IS socialized medicine. This is what we need, and what we want, and we WILL get it if I'm elected. If you don't want it, don't vote for me."

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theantirobot Donating Member (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:55 PM
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7. Declaration of Energy Independence
Accelerate our move to the hydrogen economy.
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InaneAnanity Donating Member (910 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 11:58 PM
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8. Isolationism
I would run on an isolationist policy. I would abandon all overseas bases where we aren't welcome. I'd keep defense spending up, but I would raise taxes to get rid of the debt and flush money back into programs like FEMA. And I'd try to remove Christmas as a national holiday, or at least rename it.
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:02 AM
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9. I would never run...
but can you imagine the headaches the next president is going to have, just cleaning up the messes left by GW? Oh, my. One thing about it, though, any improvement will stand out. Something as ordinary as being honest is gonna stand out, compared to this administration.
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TriMetFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:10 AM
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12. Bill Clinton was able to clean up Bush SR. miss.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:04 AM
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10. I would run on the revocation of corporate personhood.
I would return POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Government OF, BY & FOR THE PEOPLE!

Corporations would serve the people, as our founding fathers intended it to be, not the other way around.

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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-03-05 12:51 AM
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15. I'd run on "Death to the Proletariat Pig"
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 09:08 AM
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16. You're kidding of course?
pro·le·tar·i·at Audio pronunciation of "Proletariat" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prl-târ-t)
n.

1.
1. The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor.
2. The poorest class of working people.
2. The propertyless class of ancient Rome, constituting the lowest class of citizens.


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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 02:34 PM
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18. I'm serious. But I was referring to the propertyless class of ancient Rome
And they are already dead so I will be elected with my goal already acomplished!
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 01:31 PM
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17. All those things and
major public ed reform:

*no more standardized testing, ranking, or mandating particular commerically produced programs
*no more un- or partially funded mandates
*small schools, small class sizes, rich resources and support systems
*individualized curriculum and instruction
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-04-05 03:10 PM
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19. Universal healthcare
universal daycare
CUT corporate welfare
Cut pentagon budget by at least 15%
Create an alternative energy "Manhattan Project"
Go after each and every corrupt corporation and fine the shit out of them to fund all the other stuff.
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