The Issues, No. 13 - Why You Should Vote for Me (or Someone Like Me) for President

Today's posting is for fun but also could maybe be something to think about.

For anyone with any degree of intelligence, it should be intuitively obvious that you would rather have someone other than the current presidential candidates for your next President. Both of them have a great deal of unattractive baggage that I don’t believe a President should carry into office.

First of all, I don’t owe anyone anything. The media made a big deal recently of the fact that McCain and Obama had each raised multiple millions of dollars for their campaigns. Well, you don’t believe for a minute, do you, that the major contributors don’t expect something in return? I, on the other hand, haven’t received anything from anyone and so I don’t owe anything to anyone. The only baggage I’ll carry into the White House will be my personal belongings.

Second, I’m not a career politician. Either one of these guys, because they are career politicians, will spend their first term as President running for their second term, the country be damned. In other words, they will do what’s best for the continuance of their political career regardless of what’s best for America. I, on the other hand, am not a politician, I don’t care about a second term, and I will do, from the start, what I believe to be best for the country.

Third, I don’t come from money or big business and I don’t have money so, as President, I won’t favor big business or the wealthy. I’m just an ordinary middle class American concerned equally about the poor, the rich, and those in the middle.

Finally, there are a couple of other reasons why you should vote for me. Although I am basically conservative in my beliefs, I am not 100% Republican or 100% Democrat. I am conservative on some issues and liberal on others. I don’t care much for extremists like the religious right or the right to lifers. Extremists are scary to me and I equate extremism with ignorance and I think ignorance is maybe the world’s greatest problem. Secondly, I don’t like what happens in Washington. Both houses of Congress are so constantly involved in playing Democrats versus Republicans that hardly anything of significance ever is accomplished. They can’t even pass the annual government spending bills on time. We, as a country, have significant problems, such as the depletion of Social Security funds, healthcare, immigration, and energy. Because of our political system and the fact that congressmen and senators have to win elections to get into and stay in office, they aren’t ever going to do anything that would cost them votes. So, they’ll never pass any legislation that might involve raising taxes or reducing benefits. They’ll continue playing Democrats versus Republicans and waste completely the opportunity to make America better. So, when elected, I will not be influenced by extremists, and I will do whatever I can to motivate Congress to be more productive.