So, I have been researching Presidential candidates lately. It was a tough choice--I mean, come on, what with Clinton and Obama, McCain and Giuliani, sheesh, who can choose just one!
So I have chosen a compromise candidate. Perhaps you don't recognize him. That's OK, its not your fault, he's French. Nevertheless, apart from that one little problem, he seems to be the perfect admixture between what I'd want as a President--and what everyone else seems to want in one, namely:
What People Want
1--to be rich.
2--good looking (nice hair)
3--self-possessed ("confident")
4--seemingly competent (Levy is perhaps a bit too competent. I can just see his speech writers now, wearily chiseling down his famously voluminous, long-winded, magniloquent lectures/speeches to their bare bones--so as to become intelligible to an ever linguistically degenerating American public)
5--Presumptuous
6--Seemingly visionary
What I Want
1--to be so rich she/he has ceased to be at all motivated by profit.
2--actually competent and literate, so as to be a challenging mind to follow.
3--honest to the point of offense.
4--an idiosyncratic visionary that dreams her/his own dreams.
5--rational...that is, has the capacity to understand the impact of his decisions on the least of the humans under her/his leadership.
So I choose Bernard Henri-Levy because he fits both bills fully and precisely. We'll see--my hope is that Schwarzenegger will make a push to change the Constitutional prohibition on foreign born candidates for President, and that Levy will then jump on the band wagon, fight a blitzkrieg campaign, and take the field--with consultation help from Ralph Nader--as an independent. Yeah.
bhl for President! Vive la America! (my French is horrible!)
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