What are the qualities that you would look for in your ideal POTUS?


For me:

High level of national/international experience

High level of intellegence

Tendency towards common sense/prudence

Willingness to put "Country First" over ideological agendas

High level of national/international experience (it deserves to be listed twice, since we seem to have forgotten its importance in the era of Obama vs. Palin)

My ideal President:

Willing to put domestic agenda over foreign agenda. Not GHW Bush.

(07-13-2009 07:37 AM)dwr0109 Wrote:  What are the qualities that you would look for in your ideal POTUS?


For me:

High level of experience

High level of intellegence

Tendency towards common sense/prudence

Willingness to put "Country First" over ideological agendas

High level of experience (it deserves to be listed twice, since we seem to have forgotten its importance in the era of Obama vs. Palin)

My ideal President:

No real argument here.

His handling of the Gulf War was an example. He knew the danger of putting boots on the ground in Iraq and that it was not worth losing lives over.

My ideal agenda, which could be accomplished by any type POTUS.

• Support Strong National Defense.
o Maintain overseas bases as long as there is the consent of the local population.
o Encourage new battlefield technologies – the USA should never have second rate tech.
• Support a Flat Tax / Lower Tax / Education debt forgiveness
o 7% on all purchases, no loopholes.
o Allow tax deduction for any interest paid on debt.
o Encourage small business development with massive tax breaks.
o Federal education debt forgiveness after 10 years of work in certain areas (low income, teaching, medicine, vocation etc)
• Support Smaller Government.
o No National Health Care.
o No bailouts.
o Less government management of capitalism.
• Stay out of the personal lives of Americans.
o Allow states to manage their population identities and demands.
 Taxes.
 Gay marriage.
 2nd Amendment.
 Abortion.
• Support Smart Immigration Policies.
o Encourage legal immigration.
 Unskilled (Laborers.)
 Skilled (Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Business Owners etc.)
o Encourage American Citizenship through immigration policies.
 Unskilled (Three 2-year Labor Visa, then no more unless you become a citizen.)
 Skilled (One 6-year Skilled Visa, then no more unless you become a citizen.)
 Immediate American citizenship for solider and immediate blood family (wife, kids) with an Honorable Discharge or from any death while serving in the military.
• Support Trade Schools.
o Labor.
o Nursing.
o Other Vocational.
• Support for Democracies worldwide.
o Including Israel.
• Support Term Limits.
o Legislative.
o Judicial.
• Start a new Civilian Conservation Corp as an option to continue to receive unemployment benefits
o 8 weeks of unemployment benefits with no questions asked.
o Additional 8 weeks of unemployment benefits after weekly check-in with Unemployment Office to ensure you are looking for jobs.
o Additional 16 weeks of unemployment benefits with a required 3 days a week in local CCC.
o Have CCC incorporate vocational education.
• Decriminalize recreational marijuana use
• Support allowing cousins to marry and immediately disband Toledo football.
o Just seeing if you are reading this far down
• Offer Statehood to
o Washington DC
o Puerto Rico
o All American Territories, Trust Dependencies etc.
• Support new technology and business expansion to emerging democracies.
o Help develop natural resources.
o Help develop people resources.
o Offer American managed nuclear, port, infrastructure and water desalinization technologies. Tax breaks for American companies that invest but use local labor.
• Support domestic nuclear power
o Adapt the French model.
• Business X-Prize for certain private technology development.
o $10 Billion tax free
o Exclusive patent rights for 10 years.
o Public arena after 10 years.
• Work to make Mexico a trusted partner and ally on par with Canada.
o Business investment.
o Infrastructure investment.
o Trade incentives.
o Military and police training.

(07-13-2009 10:08 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  • Support allowing cousins to marry and immediately disband Toledo football.

But only cousins who agree Toledo football should be disbanded.

except uh, Bush 41 supported the Iraq War and like many on the Left and Right realized they screwed up signing the Cease Fire Agreement with Saddam instead of removing him from power the first time around.

like all republicans, the Left only like Dead Republicans and those they removed from office, in a lame effort to influence others in their talking points against current republicans they want to defeat from office. Ignoring the insane hatred for them while they were in office.

(07-13-2009 10:08 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  My ideal agenda, which could be accomplished by any type POTUS.

• Support Strong National Defense.
o Maintain overseas bases as long as there is the consent of the local population.
o Encourage new battlefield technologies – the USA should never have second rate tech.
• Support a Flat Tax / Lower Tax / Education debt forgiveness
o 7% on all purchases, no loopholes.
o Allow tax deduction for any interest paid on debt.
o Encourage small business development with massive tax breaks.
o Federal education debt forgiveness after 10 years of work in certain areas (low income, teaching, medicine, vocation etc)
• Support Smaller Government.
o No National Health Care.
o No bailouts.
o Less government management of capitalism.
• Stay out of the personal lives of Americans.
o Allow states to manage their population identities and demands.
 Taxes.
 Gay marriage.
 2nd Amendment.
 Abortion.
• Support Smart Immigration Policies.
o Encourage legal immigration.
 Unskilled (Laborers.)
 Skilled (Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Business Owners etc.)
o Encourage American Citizenship through immigration policies.
 Unskilled (Three 2-year Labor Visa, then no more unless you become a citizen.)
 Skilled (One 6-year Skilled Visa, then no more unless you become a citizen.)
 Immediate American citizenship for solider and immediate blood family (wife, kids) with an Honorable Discharge or from any death while serving in the military.
• Support Trade Schools.
o Labor.
o Nursing.
o Other Vocational.
• Support for Democracies worldwide.
o Including Israel.
• Support Term Limits.
o Legislative.
o Judicial.
• Start a new Civilian Conservation Corp as an option to continue to receive unemployment benefits
o 8 weeks of unemployment benefits with no questions asked.
o Additional 8 weeks of unemployment benefits after weekly check-in with Unemployment Office to ensure you are looking for jobs.
o Additional 16 weeks of unemployment benefits with a required 3 days a week in local CCC.
o Have CCC incorporate vocational education.
• Decriminalize recreational marijuana use
• Support allowing cousins to marry and immediately disband Toledo football.
o Just seeing if you are reading this far down
• Offer Statehood to
o Washington DC
o Puerto Rico
o All American Territories, Trust Dependencies etc.
• Support new technology and business expansion to emerging democracies.
o Help develop natural resources.
o Help develop people resources.
o Offer American managed nuclear, port, infrastructure and water desalinization technologies. Tax breaks for American companies that invest but use local labor.
• Support domestic nuclear power
o Adapt the French model.
• Business X-Prize for certain private technology development.
o $10 Billion tax free
o Exclusive patent rights for 10 years.
o Public arena after 10 years.
• Work to make Mexico a trusted partner and ally on par with Canada.
o Business investment.
o Infrastructure investment.
o Trade incentives.
o Military and police training.

A few quibbles, but basically I'd go for this (sans the cousins and Toledo things, of course).

Ideal president? Me, of course.

With proper career management, the job will keep me and my family comfortable for the long-term. If, after my presidence, I go the traditional route of writing a book, raking in massive sums for speaking engagements, etc., I'll be able to set the kids up for the long-term, too.

Of course, I've always preferred the idea of being vice president, but if called, I would serve.

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(07-13-2009 07:37 AM)dwr0109 Wrote:  What are the qualities that you would look for in your ideal POTUS?


For me:

High level of national/international experience

High level of intellegence

Tendency towards common sense/prudence

Willingness to put "Country First" over ideological agendas

High level of national/international experience (it deserves to be listed twice, since we seem to have forgotten its importance in the era of Obama vs. Palin)

My ideal President:

For me:

A business failure.
Low level of intelligence.
Tendency for warmongering.
Willingness to put God over country.

My ideal President:

About the only person further from my ideal president than GWB is BHO.

Obviously, it's been quite a while since I've been happy with the way things are going.

(07-13-2009 10:43 AM)GGniner Wrote:  except uh, Bush 41 supported the Iraq War and like many on the Left and Right realized they screwed up signing the Cease Fire Agreement with Saddam instead of removing him from power the first time around.

like all republicans, the Left only like Dead Republicans and those they removed from office, in a lame effort to influence others in their talking points against current republicans they want to defeat from office. Ignoring the insane hatred for them while they were in office.

You are an idiot if you think he honestly supported the war. He was saying so only to support his sons decision.

(07-13-2009 11:46 AM)Tripster Wrote:  .

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"I don't recall" who that is.

(07-13-2009 12:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-13-2009 11:46 AM)Tripster Wrote:  .

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"I don't recall" who that is.

That is why you don't have a good grasp on Present Politics - - you have very little background from the Recent Past to draw from.

And to not know Reagan as an Adult Observer, gives you a Great Handicap when talking about a Barack Hussein Obama and trying to vet or uphold his crazy Financial Policies.

And don't even go there about how Obamagog Inherited a Recession from GW .... Reagan Inherited an Entire Eviscerated Nation all the way down from the least Government Office, to a Totally Decimated Military, from Jim "The Peanut" Carter and by today's Calculations and Standards, Reagan was hit a Hell of a lot harder and with MUCH Greater Deficits and Debt and "non-working Military everything" than Obamagog could ever have nightmares about.

In today's Dollars vs Reagan Day Dollars, Obamagog is getting away lite homez.

I can remember a lot of Scuttlebutt regarding the question of "How the United States could actually and legally file for Bankruptcy" during the Carter Years.

Why could Reagan turn this around with a Completely Reverse Set of Financial Policies and make it happen and Obamagog is trying to Borrow, Spend, and Tax us to Death out of a Similar Financial Situation ????

OH YEAH !!!!! And "Nationalize" ever Nuance of Free Enterprise Obamagog can Overthrow - - or can "Coup d'état" ???

As in the Apologetic Style of our Fearful Leader - -
I "Apologize for you not knowing one of the Greatest President's this Earth has ever been blessed with; Ronald Wilson Reagan, February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004".

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(07-13-2009 12:06 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-13-2009 10:43 AM)GGniner Wrote:  except uh, Bush 41 supported the Iraq War and like many on the Left and Right realized they screwed up signing the Cease Fire Agreement with Saddam instead of removing him from power the first time around.

like all republicans, the Left only like Dead Republicans and those they removed from office, in a lame effort to influence others in their talking points against current republicans they want to defeat from office. Ignoring the insane hatred for them while they were in office.

You are an idiot if you think he honestly supported the war. He was saying so only to support his sons decision.

since you are so good at reading Bush 41's mind, help me through this one:

What was a sobbing Dan Rather(Liberal Icon and what not) thinking right after 9/11 on David Letterman when he called for War with Saddam Hussein?


"unlike the Gulf War, we will have the staying power"....my how things have changed for the liberal left.

"Focus is on .....Iraq......" "Not a one man enemy, but a hydra-headed enemy in many nations...."(paraphrasing)

"George Bush is the President, he makes the decisions....wherever he wants me to line up he just makes the call"


"We didn't have the staying power to finish and get rid of Saddam Hussein..."
"this will be long, casualties will be greater...."


"It remains to be seen if we have the staying power, the will to stay with it..."

"another few hours and Saddam Hussein may have gone to Sudan..." "but we all know now the decision to stop was too soon"



"...we ended the Gulf War too soon......if Saddam Hussein isn't connected to this he's connected to any number of other things.....he dreams of being a new Saladin....his hate is deep for us...."



and that one is paticularly interesting about Dick Cheney, the CIA and "Getting down and dirty with these people".




again, Politicizing National Security for Tribal Political Gain is shameful, dangerous and dishonorable.

and for good measure, Al Gore in 1992 Criticizing Bush 41 for NOT REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN AND IGNORING HIS TIES TO TERRORISM




Had Bush 43 bowed down to Saddam Hussein, these same fools would've claimed he was weak, used the MSM to make the Country Experts on Saddam Husseins history and ties to Terrorism and ran against bush 43 for being a Weak President in the face of 9/11, letting Despots like Saddam roam free and work with aiding groups, Al-Qaeda included.

(07-13-2009 12:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  About the only person further from my ideal president than GWB is BHO.

Obviously, it's been quite a while since I've been happy with the way things are going.

This.

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GG, don't you know that NONE of these guys ever said any of this stuff.

Even though it is on Video for all time now and experts can tell it is not faked, they NEVER SAID IT.

They are all FOS to the point of it Bursting Out of their Heads and yet GW is the Culprit in all of this.

How quickly your Dogs can turn on you is amazing isn't it Robert ????

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The only good President is an ex-President. There are no good Presidents in office...

RON PAUL!