The Perfect President

[Goatchrist]

Which attributes should the perfect president have in your opinion?

I think, very important things would be:

honesty
faith to his country
open-minded
critical
democratic(not like Bush's dictatoric ways...)

can anyone add something?

[stafffighter]

heres a bold idea no one has tried. Intelligence

[FUNKbrs]

solid fiscal policy?

Good foreign relations policy?

[Goatchrist]

At 7/3/03 04:14 PM, stafffighter wrote: heres a bold idea no one has tried. Intelligence

True, and he/she must also be wise, not too young I think, so he/she should have a bit more "experience" with life

[Shangui]

Uncorruptible (yeah, like that's possible!)

[NemoX]

The idea of a perfect president is something that I don't see happening. even if such a person is found, it is impossible to keep everybody happy. I mean, while he/she might do a great job in certain areas, there are bound to be people who are affected negatively by whatever changes are made, if poor people are benefited, rich people will complain because they are going to lose something, if the opposite happens, we would see what happens in most countries, rich people getting richer and poor people starving.

so there isn't really a "perfect president", only better ones.

[Goatchrist]

At 7/3/03 05:59 PM, NemoX wrote:
so there isn't really a "perfect president", only better ones.

That's what I meant with this topic. Yeah, perfect is the wrong word, better=the best possible president :)

[Kenney333]

- doesnt start any wars
- cares just as much about the rest of the world as he does his country

[Kenney333]

At 7/3/03 07:00 PM, Newgrundling wrote: If you're going to discuss hypothetical and impossible scenarios, why be so specific? A perfect system would not involve a "president" as you use the term, so instead of trying to perfect an element of an imperfect system, why not search for perfection in the system itself?

your makin alot of sense, but im too lazy to go into the details of my society

[Malachy]

oh wowie, a topic just for me, and you guys speak so highly of me too *tear*

ok, we need a person who is not only good with foriegn relations, but also a guy/gal, who knows what to do and when to do it, confusing? let me explain

you see, Bush has made many disictions in the last 3 years, we mostly hear about his on using force, i do not belive he is using the armed forces the way they are intended, right now i hear the whitehouse is leaning twards sending troops to Liberia, not a smart move, the international communitiy is already weary of our two wars in the last two years, hey why not three? i dont like that mentality in a president

we need somebody who can solve things diplomatically, like Clinton, just without the fucking interns on his spare time, but there are aspects of Bush that are good, such as his use of forces, though i donnot agree on his timing or where he put them, he seems to make sure our militarry is running smoothly, i guess what i'm saying is we need a non deomocrat, non republican president, maybe a moderate, though usually they tend to lean twards one side

this post has been braught to you by MALforpresident

[Commander-K25]

At 7/3/03 11:27 PM, MALforpresident wrote: we need somebody who can solve things diplomatically, like Clinton

Like Clinton? Like suddenly deciding to shoot missiles into the desert and bomb pharmaceutical factories without even consulting Congress?

Clinton who put us in Bosnia? Clinton who turned down Sudan's offer of a captured Bin Laden when asked? Clinton who put us in Somalia?

You'd have your perfect president if you stopped voting democrat or republican, in the end they all act the same.

At 7/3/03 11:56 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:

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Clinton who turned down Sudan's offer of a captured Bin Laden when asked?

I see that you're willing to believe this writer, but not Michael Moore, perhaps it is because Mansoor Ijaz told you what you wanted to hear?

[TheTio]

At 7/3/03 05:52 PM, Shangui wrote: Uncorruptible (yeah, like that's possible!)

Or how about just plain old uncorrupt (yeah, like thats possible!)

[BullRat]

I think TED NUGENT would be the perfect president! LOL. Gotta luv a guy with a shooting range in HIS BASEMENT! whoa... ^_^

At 7/5/03 11:28 PM, kittie_cross wrote: I think TED NUGENT would be the perfect president! LOL. Gotta luv a guy with a shooting range in HIS BASEMENT! whoa... ^_^

He adopted a 17 year-old Hawaian girl just to have sex with her but no-no we do not speak of such things.

[mikehrt]

Intelligent.
Has integrity.
Analytical.
Brave.
Is working toward the good of mankind.
Has problem solving abilities.
Last and least . . . diplomatic. <---Not that important to me as long as he gets the job done.

It'd be nice to have a president that isn't a spoiled little rich kid. Dream on crossbreed, dream on.

[TheTio]

At 7/6/03 02:25 AM, _crossbreed_ wrote: It'd be nice to have a president that isn't a spoiled little rich kid. Dream on crossbreed, dream on.

Yeah good point, I hadnt thought to put that up, but thanks for bringing it up

Why is it that to be eligible for american presidency you have to be born of a multi-millionare

Is it because the rich know what the masses really want??? Yeah...right

[Slizor]

How about one that is democratically elected?

[PadLock]

At 7/6/03 07:44 AM, Slizor wrote: How about one that is democratically elected?

Haha, good point...

How bout one that's not motivated or influenced greatly by corporations and money? Stupid tobacco industry.

[Goatchrist]

At 7/6/03 01:32 AM, mikehrt wrote: Intelligent.
Has integrity.
Analytical.
Brave.
Is working toward the good of mankind.
Has problem solving abilities.
Last and least . . . diplomatic. <---Not that important to me as long as he gets the job done.

True, that sounds good. Would be cool to have some guy like this.

The president of my country is a lazy assed old guy, who let all the work to the others....and he's going to die soon I think, heart-attack and such things

We need a new one, and a GOOD one

[bumcheekcity]

Funny
Peaceful
Young (About 30-40)
Member of CND

[Ravens-Grin]

One that knows history so he doesnt further complicate situations

Inteligence would be nice

Young people have the most ambitions, and if the presidents ambition was to perfect the system and give further power to the Senate and Congress, then that would be great. This or replace the president with a group of 3-4 democratically elected people so that one president's greed (oil anyone?) doesnt get in the way. An older person would say that the system works, and wont do much about it.

[Goatchrist]

At 7/6/03 09:48 AM, bumcheekycity wrote: Funny
Peaceful
Young (About 30-40)
Member of CND

I agree with that

I think a young, and modern president would be great. He would also be more popular for the kids

[Malachy]

At 7/3/03 11:56 PM, Commander-K25 wrote:

At 7/3/03 11:27 PM, MALforpresident wrote: we need somebody who can solve things diplomatically, like Clinton

Like Clinton? Like suddenly deciding to shoot missiles into the desert and bomb pharmaceutical factories without even consulting Congress?

Clinton who put us in Bosnia? Clinton who turned down Sudan's offer of a captured Bin Laden when asked? Clinton who put us in Somalia?

sweet, another person who thinks the same way i do, i have no idea of what i was thinking when i said clinton, just trying to think of somebody who had some good diplomatic ties with other countries, instead of having a couple wars in a short ammount of time and disregarding the UN

the weird thing is, i lean twards the right, grew up in a very republican family

but i do have to admit, Bush is going at things way to fast, way to unthought, and its all in a short ammount of time

ok, i'll fix my statement:
we need a president who can sovle things diplomatically, but can also justly police the world, concidering we are the ONLY super power

we need a president who is honest, but who wont just unclassify things that are needed to be classified

a person who can fix our government's problems, be it public relations, or even how much the elected members are paid, and internal problems that may be present now

i have more, but i may start ranting, and we dont need any of that

[BWS]

Read Plato's Republic. The president needs to learn how to be objective as well.