What Would You Do As President?

With the elections continually in the news there is constant discourse on what each candidate has done or will do. However, rarely do people get the chance to say what they would do. Here is your chance, you have been elected President of the US (god help us all), what items go to the head of the class and how would you handle them?

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The question is not whether he is a racist

[Zeinfeld]

The question at issue here is not just whether Ron Paul is a racist personally but what his stand on racism as a poltician is. Given a choice between someone who is a bigott but votes for civil rights and someone who is not a racist but panders to people who are with racism friendly policies and guestures I will take the bigott.

Ron Paul published the racist newsletter in his name for over a decade. It is a hate rag, pure and simple. It is not only racist and homophobic, it is anti-semitic.

I expect politicians to take a stand against racisim and bigotry. Pandering to racism such as appearing at CCC meetings and pretending its not a euphemism for the KKK or making coded references to seggregation such as 'states rights' or kicking your campaign off at Bob Jones U. or Racism county fair, its all functional racism.

How would you think about a candidate who is 'against terrorism' but gives money to terrorist causes?

The newsletter was a southern strategy attempt to mine the racist vote. Ron Paul put it out in his name. That makes him a racist.

Re:The question is not whether he is a racist

[Zeinfeld]

NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A Racist

OK so where is the ADL saying that his Zionist conspiracy drivel is not anti-semitic or John Aravosis saying that the homophobic drivel is not gay baiting?

We kinda discovered that people looking into other people's souls and pronouncing them pure is not an effective means of quality control on politicians. Didn't work when Bush tried it with Putin.

Don't look at the man, look at what he says and does, in particular look at what he supports and who he seeks support from.

Ron Paul published racist screeds for decades. He might as well have joined the Klan. He want's to be President. That means that the bar is rather higher than 'not proven to have racist beliefs'

Re:Tsiangkun 2012

[Charcharodon]

Number 1 I like. Corporations should be businesses only.

Number 2 I like, except for the college loan reimbursement, well at least not all college degree programs. Hard sciences, medicine, engineering sure. Fluff degrees no. There would also be a national service requirement as well, yep that's right boys and girls time to join the Army. In otherwords there is no so such thing as a free lunch.

Number 3 is silly, the rules are the rules, don't get mad because he won on a technicality, and that the average Voter has a the same IQ as the number of holes he punched in the ballot. I do agree a little with the terrorist regime. We shouldn't attack any other country unless they are a valid, as in more people are going to die than people manage to do to themselves with home appliances in a year, honest to God threat. Once the threat is determined it should be eliminated without discusions, negotiations, economic sanctions, UN resolutions, Shock and Awe, Occupation, or Nation Building. Turn the whole place into a glass parking lot and get back to our own affairs. Once people realize we meen business there'll be far less nonsense coming from petty regimes that can handle things in their own backyards.

Number 4 yes, I agree, accept it would be called the Department of We are going to Remove your Ass from the Face of the Earth, as it should be, not some feel good title like "Defense". If you manage to provoke us enough that we call these guys, people should be very affraid, and the aftermath should be something that would make even the Devil cringe.

Number 5. We I think if you meen by reparations as in a sucker punch in the face or a wack in the head with a stick then yes, reparations all around. Stupid people should never be rewarded for doing stupid things, like living BELOW sea level and then actually having the nerve to bitch about a little rain. By the same token all the government officials that let this go on for as long as it did, the building zoning below sea level part, not FEMA (FEMA actually did what was called by their charter, it wasn't their fault that people at the City and State level had their head up their collective asses.), should be hauled off to prison, one perferedly built in the 9th ward, so they can experience first hand "What no real evacuation plan in effect" means.

Re:Tsiangkun 2012

[CodeBuster]

Hmmm...lets review your positions here shall we?

I will repeal corporate personhood. Return to feudalism...check

I will tax the top 5% and distribute the wealth through increased funding for basic academic research, reimburse college loans for students carrying 3.2GPA or higher, national daycare programs, and national health care programs. Why stop there? what else should the government be providing? They do such a wonderful job of spending YOUR money efficiently for you so why not just run everything that way? It is not possible to re-distribute wealth, it has been tried and it just doesn't work. You will only succeed in distributing an equal portion of misery to everyone.

Prosecute the supreme court justices who appointed Bush, and every person in the federal governemnt who continued to aid and abet the terrorist regime. Sounds like a purge. I hear that the Soviets were fond of those.

Establish a department of peace, reduce military funding, and give anyone a seat a a negotiating table so we do not have to fight them "over there" or "over here". Spoken like someone who hasn't seen much of the world. There are people out there who would rather kill us or die trying and they would only "negotiate" if they thought that it would give them a short term tactical advantage (i.e. they would negotiate in bad faith) or cause us to ease off the pressure for a while. We negotiate where we can, but sometimes we need the sword as well. Negotiation with the sword to back it up is meaningless.

Reparations for the victims of hurrican katrina who were failed by their governments. Reparations imply that someone was at fault, so unless you are going to blame Bush for the weather it doesn't make sense to talk about reparations. People choose to build their houses in flood plains or live in low lying areas, nobody forced them to live there. How is it the fault of the rest of us when the inevitable storm comes through and wipes them out? There are plenty of other places in the United States to live besides the coasts, pick one and move there or else don't complain when you have to rebuild your house in the same bad location every few years. Why should the rest of us have to pay for that?

If you run then remind me to vote for the other guy.

What Would Paul Do?

[STrinity]

Abolish NASA and the Department of Education, create a neo-isolationist foreign policy, repeal the 14th Amendment ... yeah, those are great ideas.

And before any Paulites mod me down for saying he wants to repeal the 14th Amendment, listen to his own words. Yes, the man opposes the passage in the Amendment which made blacks citizens of the United States. But he's not a cryptoracist. Oh no.