'Gates for President' Group Gives Up

netbuzz writes "Dilbert creator Scott Adams had done his best to make this fantasy (or nightmare, depending on your point of view) a viable notion, but after three months of trying the group's leader has acknowledged that it's unlikely Gates will give up his current gig. They've tossed in the towel." Here is our original coverage of this ill-conceived plan.

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Pity... but Scott Adams is nuts

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Actually Gates would probably make a better president than some. He would not be able to favour MS, and would probably bend over backwards to ensure he did not.

Of course the problem is that he is already powerful enough not to care for a political position (no more real power when you take into account all the constraints on political leaders, more scrutiny, more stress).

The other things is that this stunt is typical of Scott Adams recent idiocy.

One of the Dilbert booKs contains his own theory of gravitation (yes really, and yes it look like he was serious). He said there were no obvious flaws, it took me about ten seconds to spot one.

He followed it up by attempting to write a philosophy/theology book. He came up with what appears to be rather naive pantheism, at best a poor rehash of ideas like the Hindu one of the dance of Shiva. The sad bit is that he seems to think it is an original idea, and he cannot understand the objections to the flaws in his thinking (fairly obvious if you read his blog). The book is called God's Debris - its a free ebook download because he could not find a publisher (he whines about that on his blog as well).

Now he wants to influence politics.

Obviously he is dissatisfied being funny and wants to achieve something serious. Personally I wish he would just stick to being funny - he is actually good at that.