So, why don't YOU run for President?

[dave29]

I smoked some weed.

Sorry about that, I would have been one of the greats.

[Desert Liberal]

1. Sadly...

...I think a lot of us would have that problem! :smoke:

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[dave29]

3. I am honored

to accept your vote. I will appoint you to my cabinet

[ashmanonar]

16. snorting coke certainly didn't.

nor drinking.

[davidinalameda]

4. that's all?

gods, if that's all I've done, I would be running in a heartbeat!

[dave29]

6. I didn't go to an Ivy League School

another problem right there

[davidinalameda]

36. neither did Ronnie Raygun

but yeah, how many presidents did come from Ivy League schools

[leftofthedial]

5. when I was young and irresponsible

I was young and irresponsible

plus I'm an atheist, which means I'm not allowed to run for office in Murka.

[Solly Mack]

7. goodness gracious alive...I'd make a horrible president

petty, vindictvie, arrogant,enjoy driving a point home,downright mean in some cases,wouldn't give corrupt officials a pass,hardnosed,SOTU addresses peppered with profanity,I'd turn things over right and left by executive fiat. I'm too damned honest...oh my...no no no no

not me...never me....

besides, I have a very colorful past :)

[El Supremo]

9. Because I'm not that smart

But I'm a hell of a lot smarter than *.

Oh, I'm also insecure.

[dave29]

12. sounds like you'd make a perfect President

seriously

[Solly Mack]

15. No

I'd be a tyrant. I know this about myself. So much I see wrong that I'd want to correct and correct with a quickness...the people would hate me...and rightly so.

[WLKjr]

8. No money

But I am from Ohio, I have a W in my name (first name), and I bet I could win big if I ever got a chance.


and did I mention I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night....LOL

[dave29]

13. sweet

I'll donate $5 bucks to your campaign - but that will max out my credit card

[Siyahamba]

38. self delete

[yella_dawg]

10. A twice-divorced Pagan pothead

who isn't an anarchist only because I think society is too greedy and self serving for anarchy to work.

Shit yeah. I'll run.

[dave29]

14. The pagan pothead community

needs more of a voice in Government, even if that voice says, "no Government"

[yella_dawg]

28. Whoa!

Dude! That is just so profound!

[dave29]

40. I thought so

but then I didn't. Weird, man. Weird.

[Raised_In_The_Wild]

48. I'll vote for you! My kinda guy! n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

11. WAY too many skeletons in my closet..... n/t

[Starlight]

33. Me too. So many skeletons I can't even open the closet door

without being crushed. :evilgrin:

[HawkerHurricane]

17. I was a enlisted man...

and am a Democrat. A Democrat former military man is obviously a communist sympathizer.
I was also young and irresponsible; which means that (as a Democrat) I am not worthy of life, much less public office. Of course, I could run as a Republican... which would make me a great patriot and everyone would have to ignore my blemishes except the conspiracy theorists that make up almost 1/2 the population.

[AllyCat]

23. Run as a Republican and let us all know who you are...

...then once you are in office, you show a change of heart and we all cheer after voting for you and working on your campaign.

[geniph]

18. I might.

Don't tempt me.

[dave29]

19. C'mon

DO IT!

[Democrat Dragon]

20. I'm too young

and I'm Asian. nuff said.

[YNGW]

21. Yeah, but did you inhale?

nc

[dave29]

24. I have yet to

exhale ;)

[Orsino]

22. Sorry, not enough of a whore.

I doubt I could grit my teeth long enough to solicit or to spend corporate money, nor am I diplomat enough to look a Delay or a Frist in the eye and say I was looking forward to working with them.

[Devlzown]

25. The 1800's are over.

No more gay Presidents.:cry:

[dave29]

26. hmmm.

tough one there. Could you stop being gay? I've heard there are ways to fix being gay.

Or maybe we could convince the right that Jesus was gay. That could solve a lot of problems.

:P

[Devlzown]

27. It would probably be easier to do the latter.

:evilgrin:

[ZombieNixon]

29. I will. I'm just too young.

However, you may send me your campaign donations now. Never can start too early.

[Aristus]

30. I'm smart, I admit when I make a mistake, and I'm a war veteran.

White House poison, man.

[K-W]

31. I'd have to find christ and capitilism first.

[ashmanonar]

32. i should make it my goal to become the first

technonerd, pagan, and socialist president! only 15 years left to wait....

[dorktv]

34. I will in 2020. Okay?

[dave29]

41. Yes

I'm now imagining all of the terrible slogans that will happen in the 2020 campaign.

"We have 2020 vision for the future" comes to mind, and makes me want to become Canadian.

[livinginphotographs]

35. I used to joke about how I'd run as an ultra-conservative Repub

And then on my first day in office, I'd sign an executive order:

(1) Abolishing the death penalty.
(2) Legalizing marijuana.
(3) Giving gay couples the federal benefits of marriage.

Then I'd try to appoint Michael Moore or George Soros to the Supreme Court. And then I'd sit back and laugh my ass off after they impeach me and try to clean up the mess I created. :evilgrin:

[Starlight]

44. Hmmm. Why didn't David Brock do that?

:evilgrin:

[AuntiBush]

37. No Status Quo

Too Old, No $$$, No $$$ Connections

[Siyahamba]

39. Wasn't born here.

[dave29]

42. Do you live in California?

I think there may be an exemption in the works

[RunningFromCongress]

43. I'm not old enough, but I will

at least run for congress.

oh the irony

[dad]

45. I'm an

atheist. Automatic disqualification to any political office!

[Radical Activist]

46. Smoking weed helps now

It makes you look cool so you can connect with the youth. That is no excuse!

As for me...give me a couple decades and maybe I will.

[Raised_In_The_Wild]

47. who didn't? Clinton was the best, and he smoked weed, Laura was

the go-for girl and Shrub had a cocaine habit and was convicted of drunk driving. For that matter, Laura ran her boyfriend over and killed him. It's not what you did, it's whether you are in the class that gets away with it or not.

[readmoreoften]

49. If my party ever wants to run this honest lesbian ex-stripper with

three graduate degrees, why I will whip this country into shape... and that shape will be the will of the people!

Until then, I'll get behind someone who doesn't look like he drowns puppies for fun. Or at least the guy whose wife doesn't look like she's cookin' up 'homeless pot pie'.

[dave29]

lol

'homeless pot pie' hehehe

[dave29]

55. lol

'homeless pot pie' hehehe

[Nobody]

50. I'm an introvert

and in order to run for office, you have to be extroverted. Even if I love the limelight, I'm no good at schmoozing.

[RetroLounge]

51. Sorry, I would never make it.

Too much weed in youth, too many blowjobs in general.

(I never thought I would be typing that statement)

RL

[hyphenate]

52. I don't have the legal background

to run. I know almost anyone can run regardless of their background, but I personally feel that you need to be far better acquainted with the legal system if you are planning on being in the top leadership of our country. The asshole is a perfect example why we don't have more people with their degrees in business administration in the wh.

Also, I'm poor, I'm a woman, I am partially disabled, and I'm not a size 2 or 4. As well, I've suffered depression both now and in the past, and as we know, "mental disorders" make it hard to become president. </intense sarcasm>

If I could rule the world anonymously, though, I find that fantasy fulfilling. As long as no one knew, I could make significant progress in changing the lives of most everyone on the planet.

[dave29]

56. one can only save the world

if one does it anonymously, I've always thought.

[OneTwentyoNine]

53. Because I'm smart enough to know I'm not smart enough.....

Unlike Bush who stumbled into the job anyway and has fucked up this country more than Dick Nixon and Reagan combined.

[sweetheart]

54. I have the wrong profile

I would be an outstanding president... no shit.

However i've smoked and inhaled good weed, even bought extra and sold
some to get some extra money in college.

I've also done LSD and sold the extra bits i was not gonna use, not
really as a dealer, but just to friends... it happens when you buy 100
hits and then realize how MANY that is.! :-)

All that was decades ago.... but america is so programmed against the
drugs war, that i'd be stigmatized and theres little point.

As well, i'm a buddhist. I'm not married to an american, and i've
lived abroad for 20% of my life... too long for a president.

And finally, i've written some 6000+ posts on DU, and this would be
used to destroy any reputation, as posts would be misquoted and reframed
to brand me a traitor and whatnot... when in fact i am loyal opposition.

So, as i've become a writer, better to write, that we all play our part
and perhaps its not the dharma for me to be president. I am a
behind-the-scenes advisor par excellence... and have done exactly
this job in global finance. I prefer not being in the limelight
and just using ideas and plans, rather than face-selling an image.

So as i'm not running, i am free to challenge contentious propaganda
and to help set the ground for the demise of the nazi-brownshirts.
As a writer, my heros are karl marx, Blair (orwell), and Plato.
They each have changed the world more than any president.

Spiritually my heros are Rama, Gangaji, Adida, Sathya Sai baba,
Ramana Maharshi, Namkha Drimed Rimpoche, Mahamuni Babaji and Shankara.
All of them have changed the world more than any president.

There are many paths to power.. .perhaps best just to follow the
dharma and it will light the way.

[cheezus]

57. I'm "unelectable"

[opihimoimoi]

58. We all are, well, most of us....the Pubs have narrowed the filter to

allow only their plain spoken kind to run for office....qualied but really not fit//// like them Peters and Peterettes.