Presidents' Day Poll

[Kevy Baby]

I wanted to vote for Sy Sperling.

Not only was he the President of the Hair Club for Men, he was also a client.

[JWBear]

My dislike of the current administration has nothing to do with partisanship or political ideology. It has to do with their dishonesty, incompetence, and the way they run roughshod over the Constitution. I'd be against any administration that has done the things this one has done, regardless of the party involved.

[innerSpaceman]

And please, do tell, how is the current administration more liberal than Clinton (other than on immigration policy ... where I give them singular props)??


As for "why" a female or black president .... I simply feel that breaking the barrier, even symbolically, of the white male ruling class for the pinaccle of the ruling class is of vital importance to the progress of mankind.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And please, do tell, how is the current administration more liberal than Clinton (other than on immigration policy ... where I give them singular props)??


As for "why" a female or black president .... I simply feel that breaking the barrier, even symbolically, of the white male ruling class for the pinaccle of the ruling class is of vital importance to the progress of mankind.

If one looks at the amount spent, never mind rhetoric, one will find that Bush has out spent Clinton in not a few areas where one would expect a liberal to be the most generous with public funds.............I guess the major difference would be that Clinton was forced by a fiscaly responsible Republican congress to act the way he did whereas Bush had a Republican congress that thought they could spend their way to re-elections(which is why they lost...idiots).

Your reasons for wanting a non-white-male for President are admirable, but I still believe fly in the face of what we should be trying to achieve.

I hope to see the day when a Black Woman is elected President and no one finds it important or remarkable in any respect to her gender or skin color.

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

Bush has out spent Clinton in not a few areas where one would expect a liberal to be the most generous with public funds

Such as?

(I ask quite sincerely. Perhaps I haven't been paying enough attention. What "liberal" causes have the Republican administration and Congress lavished funds upon?)

Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

I hope to see the day when a Black Woman is elected President and no one finds it important or remarkable in any respect to her gender or skin color.

And I believe that day will only come after (perhaps long after) the barrier is broken with much attention to gender or skin color.

[Gemini Cricket]

There was no option for Thomas Jefferson, so I voted for Bubba.

[sleepyjeff]

Education and Prescription drugs come to mind...although I'll admit I am too lazy to look up the actual numbers.


Good point about the barrier being broken first....I suppose that will have to be first in order for what I'd like to be to occur.

[innerSpaceman]

I'll grant you the education thing. Lots of money went that way ... not wisely spent toward any education goals ... but spent nonetheless.

Prescription drugs, however, was a corporate giveaway pure and simple. Citizens got screwed and big pharma companies made out like the bandits they are. Money thrown at the cause of making more money for multinational corporations is not liberalism.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Prescription drugs, however, was a corporate giveaway pure and simple. Citizens got screwed and big pharma companies made out like the bandits they are. Money thrown at the cause of making more money for multinational corporations is not liberalism.

Very true.

[JWBear]

What I wouldn't give to have Jed Bartlet in the White House right now. Sigh...