Do you wish for a stronger Presidential candidate?

Question

It seems as if the topics of gay marriage, abortion, stem cell research, alternative fuel sources, global warming, education, universal healthcare, seeking world peace, why do we still have the Income tax, how come Clinton got impeached for oral sex but Bush isn't for starting a war and yet wasn't able to find any evidence of WMD and much more are never really answered but are continually left unresolved. Will a stronger candidate ever arise to tackle these issues or will we simply be left with the limelight seeking, lukewarm, candidates of today?

Answer 1

First off, Clinton wasn't impeached for oral sex (even though adultery is illegal). Bush wasn't impeached for starting a war b/c that's not illegal and if you remember correctly, the entire country was crying out for vengence after 9-11. Thousands died. Remember? He was doing what a president is suppose to do and thats listening to the people who elected them.

Now am I a Bush fan who believes in the war? No. But it burns me when people think Clinton or Kerry would have done a fabulous job simply b/c they are democrat when Kerry flat out states he hates the troops and would love to see them all killed and Edwards would have quit by now. Bush has stayed in Iraq far too long. But that is not an impeachable offense. The country didn't swing into this anti-war beliefs until way after Saddam was brought down.

Do I wish for a strong presidental candidate? Yes I do. But not for the things you mention. A president can't do anything about education (thats the states right), nor world peace (b/c you can't make the middle east have peace--it's not in their nature). We have the income tax so that you can bask in all the luxuries you like, for example roads and education, a military that you can bash, and welfare to help those poor people we always chant need more money to help them out. We could get rid of the income tax but you'd have to be willing to tell those women who have 9 children but can't bother to go to work, to STOP HAVING CHILDREN THEY CANT AFFORD. But no democrat wants to do that either. So instead they complain about the taxes that fund that.

Gay marriage is such a non-issue. It's a platform that sounds nice sorta like saying "family values and Christian morals" that works on people who don't think about the fact that it actually means nothing.

Abortion, I do fear sometimes that Roe v Wade will be overturned and that the religious right will take over the earth, but then I realize there are enough of us out here that we will repress the religious zealot again.

But I do wish for a stronger inspirational Presidential candidate. One that will stand up to lobbyist, demand reform for campaign finances and demand that politicians work half the year. Maybe the occasional 5 day work week as well. Someone that stops allowing the gas companies to price gouge, earning $4.5 million an hr.

Universal healthcare is an issue I think needs to be managed in America but first we need to stop providing the free health care to illegal aliens and make sure that the universal healthcare is actually given to citizens. But thats not a very liberal idea. So it will be so porked up that it will never pass. A candidate can't control that either.

Perhaps a stronger candidate could get line item veto. Get rid of the party system so that candidates have to actually run on their record, and real issues not just "Republicans suck and just want to kill people in Iraq" "Yeah well Democrats are addlepated idiots who just want to give money to the poor and make the hard working people of America broke". If we could actually hear real issues instead of party line drivel. If we could convince them we see through the negative crappy campaigns. Unfortunately the 2 party system doesn't even allow us to vote for a 3rd party

However a stronger candidate couldn't make any of that happen. Congress still holds all the power. Congress will never agree to give the President the ability of line item veto and cut out pork. They will never agree to actually work, or to give themselves a limit on terms. Would you make yourself accountable for your spending if you didn't have to? Democrats and Republicans alike love their private planes and fabulous health plan. The full retirement after you worked a grand total of 9 years (though you were in office for 5 terms). And they love the lobbyist.

No candidate can force Congress into making those laws. We set up the government that way. We will always have a limelight seeking, lukewarm candidate (after all in the last election we had Bush and Kerry--neither stellar and I thought THIS is the best the 2 parties had to offer)--b/c Congress won't allow differently. They have to be weak b/c its a position that always gets the blame, and mostly for things they have no control of in the first place.

Answer 2

There are some good tea social gathering applicants available yet they won't get elected with the way voter base of this as quickly as super united states is shifting. The left has been shelling out further and extra handouts with none workers duty to advance their events numbers. look state to state and learn the budgets of the states ran by potential of republicans or democrats. The democrats do not care approximately balancing a funds. they only desire to spend as much as they are in a position to to purchase votes. the people who artwork for a residing will quickly be without voice.

Answer 3

No presidential candidate will ever fit everyone's mold. Everyone wants something different, so how could there ever be the near-perfect president you suggest?