John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid

An anonymous reader writes: Since this U.S. presidential election cycle clearly isn't chaotic enough already, it seems John McAfee is now considering a campaign as well. Wired reports that McAfee hasn't decided for sure yet, and he's hoping to persuade somebody more charismatic to run with his backing. He said his advisors are pressing him to run, adding, "I have many thousands of emails saying please run for President. It's not something I would just choose to do on my own." What would his platform be? It actually sounds pretty simple: "It's clear that the leadership of our country is illiterate on the fundamental technology that supports everything in life for us now, that is cyber science, our smartphones, our military hardware, our communications." He'd be a strong proponent for privacy and autonomy. We should know in a few days whether McAfee is in or out — Wired says he "seems far more concerned with having his voice heard on one particular issue than with taking a seat in the Oval Office." Something seems to have changed his mind about politics: in a 2014 interview here, McAfee said. "I would never run for office, neither would I want to be in office, of any kind. I would rather drive a nail through my foot." According to the paperwork McAfee has filed, he is founding a new party (PDF).

Comments

Re:Stability

[Fire_Wraith]

I'm thinking Charlie Sheen. Together, they've probably done more drugs than half the country combined. It'd certainly be entertaining!

Evolving positions over time

[steveha]

I wonder if he has also reconsidered his position on driving a nail through his foot?

Re:Stability

[Applehu Akbar]

"Most of the other candidates are batshiat crazy, why not throw John into that mix?"

Here's how I would do it: In every election, place McAfee by default onto both the Republican and Democratic candidate list. The parties would have to go to special trouble to delete him from the list each time before someone better could be run. Deleting him would not be tat easy, either; it would take a special "removal tool."

Re:I guess it makes sense....

[TheGratefulNet]

do I really have to go for the obvious joke?

ok. you forced me.

the reason we do not want him to be president is: once he's installed, he'll be impossible to be removed!

McAfee Joke in 3..2..

[otaku244]

If McAfee is installed in the White House, do we havet/get to renew his subscription every year?
Time to fight fire with fire, McAfee is the only bloated slow unusable solution for our governments problems
I don't believe John McAfee is running for president. He's so tripped out from the bath salts that he probably thinks he's ordering Thai food from an Irish pub on a dare his talking gorillacorn (yes, that's half gorilla, half unicorn) made.