I disagree with both statements.

Originally Posted by wolfen

TOG would your granddad even want that job?
I hear its low pay nowdays LOL

Compared to the measly pension General Motors gives him, 200 grand looks mighty nice!

You wouldn't want him president anyway. Democrat.

Originally Posted by wolfen

I'd take the job,

I would too ... the only problem, is the fact that I would end up being a one-term President. My very first act would be to do everything in my power, to get at least half of those idiots that make up the Congress and the Senate replaced by average Joes like myself (even if it meant prosecuting them for malfeasance etc). There'd be a witch hunt to remove those who don't have their constituents best interests at heart.

Partisan politics is the bane of this country and can blamed for much of the ills that presently face our nation. An example is the present President and his policies that favor big business to the detriment of the middle class (which is quickly shrinking), which were rammed through when the Republicans were in the majority in the House/Senate.

While I make these comments, tongue-in-cheek, it points out just how I feel about the present administration and the sycophants who were quick to kiss the keister of GW Bush by passing economic programs that don't work and to back him in an unjustified war (Bush's War).

Somehow all of this nonsense about the terrible Bushy boy just doesn't do it for me.
Mistakes made? Probably so. However, I think he's done a damned good job for the cards he was dealt during his Presidency.

Originally Posted by AikiRooster

Somehow all of this nonsense about the terrible Bushy boy just doesn't do it for me.
Mistakes made? Probably so. However, I think he's done a damned good job for the cards he was dealt during his Presidency.

I can only name one good thing he did during his entire presidency: he removed the Taliban from power, eliminating Al Qaeda's save haven in Afghanistan. Other than that, nothing but a line of mistakes and botched jobs.

Back on topic. Chief Bones, your last paragraph speaks my mind. Well said.

That's two things.

Originally Posted by AikiRooster

That's two things.

I consider it one which led to another by default.

Originally Posted by Chief Bones

I would too ... the only problem, is the fact that I would end up being a one-term President. My very first act would be to do everything in my power, to get at least half of those idiots that make up the Congress and the Senate replaced by average Joes like myself (even if it meant prosecuting them for malfeasance etc). There'd be a witch hunt to remove those who don't have their constituents best interests at heart.

Partisan politics is the bane of this country and can blamed for much of the ills that presently face our nation. An example is the present President and his policies that favor big business to the detriment of the middle class (which is quickly shrinking), which were rammed through when the Republicans were in the majority in the House/Senate.

While I make these comments, tongue-in-cheek, it points out just how I feel about the present administration and the sycophants who were quick to kiss the keister of GW Bush by passing economic programs that don't work and to back him in an unjustified war (Bush's War).

LOL I'd be the first American dictator to be reelected to a second term in a free general election. the world would either love the US or totally hate the US after I was done, but if I lost the confidence of the people of the United States, I'd be glad to step down early, and let sombody else have a turn. Of course terrorists would fear me. but not as bad as rich company execs' who don't care about their people.

Money is like a country's blood. If large corporations don't serve the purpose of pumping in money into the country's economy, there is no use for them.

Originally Posted by AikiRooster

Somehow all of this nonsense about the terrible Bushy boy just doesn't do it for me.
Mistakes made? Probably so. However, I think he's done a damned good job for the cards he was dealt during his Presidency.

Well added to mistakes, is incompetance (Afghanistan and Iraq), corruption (no bid contracts to Halliburton), arrogence (the treatment of our European Allies), vindictiveness (Valerie Plame, Scott Ridder, anyone else who dared criticized his royal majesty), dishonesty (Healthy Forests Act, WMD in Iraq), a healthy disrespect for the law/constutiton (torture) and the US and a dangerous precedent in seeking total imperial executive power (Cheney telling Congress he's not part of the executive branch and therefore immune from executive oversight) that would have made Richard Nixon blush.

All I can say is that whoever wins will be an improvement from what we got now, because frankly its nigh impossible to do any worse.