Are you ready for a president who's willing to lead the country instead of holding it hostage?

Question

to his (or her) narrow partisan viewpoint?

I'm not giving a sales pitch and I didn't have any one candidate in mind when I posed this question. Just frustrated at the lack of progress and the small minds responsible for it.

I'm a Kucinich or Edwards supporter myself but I'm sure many liberals, conservatives and moderates alike share in my frustration.

Answer 1

Yes!
That would be Dennis Kucinich, in my book.
Possibly Ron Paul
less chance, but *maybe* John Edwards

IMHO

Answer 2

Unfortunately, many presidential candidates often receive campaign contributions from the same corporations, therefore it doesn't really matter who wins as we can always guarantee that whoever it is will be a puppet of some larger faction whose interests are not in line with the average citizen. I don't view Bush as a president but rather a figurehead that represents whatever it is that his handlers want him to say/do for the week. So to answer your question, of course, it would be nice to have a president that is a leader who upholds the Constitution, sadly I don't know when that last occurred.

Answer 3

During the debates, I only heard one that said anything about bringing back the manufacturing base to the U.S.A and no other! The rest are only interested in power, glory and the money associated with it! Bringing back the manufacturing base means jobs in every sector of our country and those who refuse are traitors and should be treated as such! Protecting the country from all enemy's both foreign and domestic means just that, foreign and domestic, including corporate America! Also If you have an off shore account to hide your money in to keep it from being taxed is illegal and should be enforced with the utmost of the law! Also the politicians shouldn't be aloud to do insider trading on the halls of congress!

Answer 4

In the words of Margaret Thatcher..."Consensus is nothing more than the lack of leadership". I for one am a fan of partisanship. I want leaders that will do what is right. I mean right in two ways, first of all correct, and secondly, the policies should be based on conservative ideals. History shows that the left destroys all that is good. As one answer pointed out, President Bush is a leader. Leaders are often hated because of their vision. They are hated by those who don't have vision, and rely on selling people a product that has failed every time it has been tried.........Liberal/Socialist/Communist agendas.


MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone, and GOD BLESS YOU and YOUR LOVED ONES

Answer 5

Yes, I'm ready for that, but it looks like a lot of other people are going to vote for Clinton, so we probably won't get a real leader.

Answer 6

Getting an early start on the spirits are we.Take it easy, Christmas is still a couple of days way. May want to eat something as well. It will help to sober you up.

Answer 7

In an ad, Clinton claims members of the National Guard and military Reserve didn’t have health insurance until she and a GOP colleague took action. In fact, active-duty Guard and Reserve troops already were covered by federal insurance, and four out of five non-active-duty guardsmen and reservists already were covered by their civilian employers or other sources. Clinton did help expand and enhance health care coverage for reservists but can't claim credit for creating coverage where none existed, as this ad implies.

A new ad sponsored by a labor union PAC in support of Democratic presidential candidate Edwards implies that the closing of an Iowa Maytag factory and the loss of 1,800 jobs are due to "tax breaks to companies that move jobs offshore." And it says Edwards would end such breaks.

But there's two problems with what he said: The jobs didn't move offshore. They were actually sent to Ohio. Eliminating the "tax breaks" in question probably wouldn't do much to keep jobs in the U.S.

Romney launched another negative ad in Iowa this week, where the Republican presidential candidate has been battling the new front-runner, Huckabee. This time, Romney attacks Huckabee's record on methamphetamine laws and the clemencies he granted as governor of Arkansas. But the facts are the ad says Romney "got tough on drugs like meth" while governor of Massachusetts, but the legislation he supported never passed, and his state's laws are much weaker than Arkansas'. Convicted meth dealers face both minimum and maximum prison terms in Arkansas that are four times longer than those in Massachusetts. The ad misrepresents news articles, implying that they supported Romney's actions as governor when that's not what the news organizations said. One article, in fact, gave critical views of Romney's refusal to issue a pardon.

An ad by Romney strains the facts in attempting to portray a stark contrast between him and Huckabee. The ad says both Romney and Huckabee are "pro-life," which is true now but glosses over Romney's recent conversion. The ad says "the difference" between the two is that Romney "vetoed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants" while Huckabee supported it. But Romney's immigrant-bashing stance is also recent. In 2004 he said, "I hate the idea" of making college unaffordable for children of illegal immigrants.

Arizona Sen. John McCain promised to make the U.S. “oil independent” within five years, a goal experts say can’t be achieved.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claimed American students score in the bottom quarter among industrial nations, but they score about average in the most recent tests.

Romney also claimed that federal programs to prevent teen pregnancy are “obviously not working,” while in fact births are dramatically below what they were in 1991 despite a relatively small increase last year.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said a big federal tax cut would produce “a major boost in revenues for the government,” a notion that nearly all economists say is a fantasy.

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee claimed he had the most impressive record on education of any GOP candidate, even though Arkansas children scored below the national average while those in Romney’s Massachusetts were No. 1.

Rep. Duncan Hunter claimed the cost of administering and complying with the federal income tax is $250 billion a year, far higher than the figure given by a recent presidential advisory commission.

Richardson claimed “enormous progress” in New Mexico education, when in fact the state's eighth-grade reading scores have slipped and remain among the worst in the U.S.
Richardson exaggerated the extent to which his state's teacher salaries increased. Richardson said one-third of U.S. health care spending goes to “administration and bureaucracy,” but Medicare officials put the figure at 7.4 percent.

Dodd criticized “the Chinese government” for slave labor, when in fact it just sentenced a slaver to death. Dodd said University of Iowa costs have gone up 141 percent in six or seven years; we find they rose 81 percent.

Obama claimed Medicare would save “a trillion dollars” if fewer Americans were obese. There's very little support for that figure.

So I don't which candidate you're talking about.

Answer 8

Who do you have in mind?

Answer 9

I have been since Clinton was elected.

Answer 10

Pleeeese! Not another Ron Paul commercial!