Leaderless

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I am scared because election of any of the current presidential candidates will leave America leaderless. Clinton just wants the position so that she can say she was president - and succumbs to what John Maxwell calls "The Myth of Position"; Obama is nothing more than a Kennedy-esque charisma kid - no one knows how he'll react under real pressure - he might choke; Huckabee? Who wants an over sized Mr. Rogers for President - and that guitar playing pandering in NH!!??? McCain is probably the most poitically saavy but too much of a technocrat...but he most likely would keep the wheels on the bus...if only he could reduce the price of gas...and so on

Marketing Democracy or The Theft of Democracy

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What's wrong with all of the presidential candidates? What's wrong with the presidential campaign? What's wrong with the fact that our choices are nothing more than the lesser of two evils? What's wrong is that among all the presidential candidates, there are no presidents. What's wrong is that they all want to be president of the united states just a little too much. What's wrong is that in stead of being supporters we as a population have become little more than candidate groupies. It's a much less demanding task. With Hilary Clinton's campaign managers repeatedly spiking debates with seeded questions I wouldn't wonder if her New Hampshire headquarters bomb threat the other day was also staged to enable Hilary to appear more presidential. That's the theft of democracy. What's smart is that she's positioning herself and running a "competence" campaign. That's an interesting selling dimension in that it enables her to sidestep issue gaffs and mud slinging while she differentiates herself in a way that effectively derails her competitors. Now I don't have a problem with Obama saying he's wanted to be president since the third grade but where are those reluctant "citizen candidates" a k a George Washington, who made it to the top seat all the while expressing the fact that they didn't want to be president. The world is not so complex that this person could not succeed. The challenge would be an ability to work with our own political machine. But remember the roots of american politics. Being a politician was not intended to be a career activity. It's just that those in office now perverted our government that way. The result is the theft of democracy from a people who will remain content as long as there's room on their credit card so that they can continue to live beyond their means (as does our government) and as long as sufficient entertainment exists on television, the internet and via gaming to keep the senses numb.