If I Were President, I'd..... by Ted Rall

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

01/15/2008
THE POLITICS OF DOPES by Ted Rall
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/

I don't agree with the whole column, but I sure like your agenda, below!

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"If I received a call tonight informing me that I needed to come to Washington because I had somehow been selected president, I would be ready to work tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. I already know who I'd choose as my secretaries of state, defense and other cabinet appointees. Guantánamo would be shut down. The Department of Homeland Security would be abolished. We'd pull out of NAFTA and the WTO. Torture would be banned; habeas corpus restored. I have tax reform ready to go (soak corporations and the rich, companies that outsource U.S. jobs and use offshore tax shelters would be barred from selling goods to U.S. consumers), a detailed education policy (federal control would replace local control and funding of public schools, colleges and universities would be nationalized and made free) and a plan for healthcare (fully socialized). My foreign policy would go into effect at once: immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, an address to the United Nations apologizing for the wars and the torture and offering reparations, normalizing diplomatic relations with Iran, North Korea and Cuba, and cutting off aid to oppressive dictatorships".
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[Buzz Clik]

1. Gravel and Tancredo also had definite plans.

Funny how the further one is from ever becoming president the clearer one's vision becomes for the office.

[Dhalgren]

3. Right. Vague and ill-defined seems to work best...

[Buzz Clik]

5. Let's take a look:

Who has/had the most clearly defined policies: Kucinich, Tancredo, Keyes, Gravel, and maybe Edwards and Huckabee.

The fuzziest: Clinton, Obama, Romney, Giuliani.

Of these, only Huckabee has won a state primary or caucus.

So, yes -- vague and ill-defined seem to work the best.

[yourout]

2. You get the job.....when can you start?

[IndyOp]

4. Ted! Ted! I want Ted! There's no substitute for Ted! (n/t)