What do you think the next president could do to unify our country again?

Question

To help us heal the divide, so it's not so us vs. them or conservative vs. liberal etc.

Answer 1

The best, and perhaps only, way to unify this country (short of imposing an oppressive police-state) is to stop trying to shove one partisan agenda down everyone's throat and at everyone's expense. The president that can best unify is the one that understands that America is a very diverse country, and that we should not all be forced to live under one-size-fits-all policies. He or she will push to devolve more power to the states, where the American people can vote on the sort of laws they wish to live under, without worrying about interference from whoever happens to have a majority in Washington DC at any particular moment. He or she will advance the idea that we are at our strongest when we tolerate one another's differences and agree to live-and-let-live.

If we don't take this approach, we will always be at one another's throats in DC, and ultimately the country will break apart because we will reach a point where certain states will no longer tolerate being ruled by the others. History is pretty clear that dissimilar people cannot be governed under one system for very long without force. This happened once before in our history, and there are signs that we are fast approaching such another such confrontation.

Answer 2

Stop the fingerpointing and give the American people some plausible answers and actions instead of political babble that gets the American people no where.

We have republican hopefuls going to church and shaking hands with preists to get the Christian vote...which I find sad seems how our current president did that and yet he goes to war with the enemies whome Christians are called to love.

We have democratic hopefuls saying "I'm gonna think about New Orleans every day of my presidency"...which is nice to hear, but we all know that ain't gonna happen. The people of New Orleans are going to be going through a tough time no matter who is president.

Politicians lie, lie, and lie. We need us a president who doesn't give us any BS (sorry for the language) and who actually fixes the problems.

Answer 3

Presidents in the past appointed people to cabinet-level positions from both major parties. Appointing competent people on the basis of merit, rather than personal loyalty or extreme ideology, as we have recently seen, would be a good step in the right direction.

Answer 4

She could lead us through the tribulation that George W Bush has begun, and take us all the way to Armageddon, which at this point seems to be more or less guaranteed to occur in 5-7 years. Just look at the signs from the past 8 months of 2007. Look at the nation of Greece today. The entire country is in flames, and ashes are falling on Athens. These are signs of tribulation with absence of rapture.

Her other mission will be to remove the stain that the current tyrant has placed upon the earth. This man has no morals, and no value for human life other than his own. He sends our young men and women to fight a war begun for no other reason than his own personal vanity. Just look at all the photo ops he has gotten from this war.

Alberto has fallen, just another domino in line of the republican party.

Answer 5

The first three items on his (or her, I suppose) agenda should be blatantly bipartisan. Things that matter to EVERYONE, like Education reform, or Infrastructure improvements (not just repairs), or Space exploration. Things that politicians from both parties will look good supporting. Once they're used to working together again, half the battle is won.

Answer 6

Adopt a cooperative approch in all of his activities at home, get tough with criminals/terrorists, and stop interfereing in the social and political affairs of foriegn countries.

Answer 7

Deport the conservatives to Iraq. This way the conservatives can walk the walk when it comes to all their talk about controlling Iraq and fixing the country to their liking. And the liberals can fix all the damage that Bush has done at home.

Answer 8

The best thing the next president could do is
1.Be a Republican
2. have STRONG family values
3.Let the Government be FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE!
4.Get rid of all Socialist Programs
(after all this a Capitalist country not a socialist country)

Answer 9

Nothing!!!!
Bush tried it.
The Democrats stabbed him and us in the back.
(Bush should have known: NEVER trust Democrats. Even Democrats don't trust Democrats.)

We could send the liberals to North Korea, where they would be among their own Communist kind.