Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Now Chairing Lessig's Presidential Bid

Funksaw sends a followup to Tuesday's news that Lawrence Lessig is pondering a presidential campaign: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is now chairing the committee for Lessig's campaign. Wales said, "Larry's run for President is different. He's crowdfunding his campaign instead of seeking out rich donors. He's showing people that we can change the rigged political system. ... The Internet community came together to fight back against SOPA and we were successful. Now we’re behind Lessig to fight for citizen equality." Lessig's goal is to raise a million dollars by September 7, and they're already at roughly $300,000. Relatedly, Newsweek had a brief interview with Lessig over his potential campaign, and Eric Posner wrote an insightful piece about it at Slate.

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Re:What a colossal waste of time and resources!

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It would make much more sense to focus on the Senate and the Congress. Then once dominant in their strip all powers of the President and turn them into a figure head and administrator only. One thing for sure and certain and series of very bad President have proven that they can not be trusted with that much power and bad things will result. Also likely a major change to the Supreme Court, same method of appointment, but term and age limits. There is absolutely no reason anybody should sit on the supreme court for more than a decade and likely you need few more at least 12 total (the more there it the more it costs to corrupt them). The biggest problem with the US far to few people hold far to much power.