I will be 35 on my next birthday (may 2010). the contry needs "change we can believe in", "healing", and "straight talk". here's my 10 point presidential platform. I reserve the right to modify any of these 10 points if someone suggests one that works better, but i'm going with these for now:

10 - appoint a tax czar. he can't stop taxes passed by congress, but his duty will be to explain how much they will cost the average family before they get passed

9 - stop all this nonsense about manned missions to mars. we can't afford it

8 - close down gitmo. obama broke his promise. i won't break mine. send these guys to their "birth country", then close the book on it and apologize to the word for an error in judgement

7 - to fix health care - you can buy a health care policy from any insurer in any state. so if you don't like the massachussetts ultra high priced policies, buy one from virginia or vermont. really.

6 - the right to bear arms constitutional amendment - license and insure gun ownership like automobiles. don't ban gun ownership. i'm pretty sure i can convince 2/3 of the state legislatures to go for this

5 - no foreign aid or military gifts to unelected despots (i'm lookiing at you, saudi arabia, egypt jordan, etc). you'll just have to wing it without us. That means no secret grain shipments to bribe Kim Jong IL about slowing his nuke development, etc.

4 - bring the troops home from afghanistan and iraq. use the "predator drone" strategy which is in play for pakistan, if we detect terrorist activity. if you hear a buzz overhead, look up and smile, osama . . . we're watching.

3 - no money to farmers to let their fields lie fallow. no government purchases of surplus grain or milk. no ethanol boondoggles. figure it our yourselves farmer boys. set up your own collectives, but remember price collusion is still a crime.

2 - same deal for corporations. the bailout window is closed as soon as i put my hand on the bible and say "i do" to the chief justice on inauguration day. All government bailouts to bad companies must be repaid in 90 days, or we convert it to common stock owned by the government, which we will sell when market conditions dictate.

1 - i promise to resign from the presidency, effective that day, if any of my cabinet picks are determined to be (a) a tax scofflaw, (b) have employed illegal aliens, (c) be under indictment by any federal or local law enforcement agency (d) have previously been employed by fringe groups like Acorn, the KKK, etc.

vote for me . . . . does it matter what party i'm running on?

Cause it's hard to take a candidate seriously if she doesn't have a bus. Also, it comes in handy in disposing of embarrassing associates.

but I'll have to see a picture first. If I am going to put a woman in the White House, I want a real looker.

10: Okay with that.

9. Definitely agree.

8. Agree on the close down but shoot them all rather than send them back to Al Qaeda.

7. Agree

6. Agree

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Agree

Jack

catch phrase or two. Here's some that nobody seems to be using.

"It's only politics, uh-huh, uh-huh, but I like it!"

"Mean what I say? Do I LOOK like Mother Teressa?"

"It's not a lie if I don't get caught."

i agree that releaseing the gitmo gang might theoretically pose a risk of future attacks

here's my proposal to nullify that

put a small surgical scar on each one in the same place - for example, the back of the neck like in "X files"

refuse to answer any questions as to how or why it got there

the associates of these gitmo releasees will assume its some sort of tracking device and never give them anything important to do again.

10 - "not a lawyer"

9 - "It's springtime in america"

8 - "in your guts you know she's right"

7 - "she'll do what you'd you do, if you were president"

6 - "she's one of us"

5 - "already has a dog - not getting one as a campaign stunt"

4 - "not a millionaire"

3 - "she's on your side"

2 - "no habla espanol"

1 - "if you don't vote for me you're a racist"

or how about this - campaign in my saturn aura - a poingnant reminder that obama forced GM to kill off some very decent cars . . .

won't you get into trouble using slogan #1? "If you don't vote for me you're a racist" is OWNED by Obama and his supporters. It could get confusing, is all I'm saying.

Man, oh, man, I'd dearly love to see the copyright application from Team Obama for "if you don't vote for me, you're a racist." That'd make my decade, pretty much.

blood vessels bursting throughout the nation were that to happen. "Arrrrrrrgh!" Pop!

Hmm, not sure that's very threatening. It could mess up their hair, I suppose.

There are some grisly (people round here don't seem to be able to spell that) videos of the perfectly fine and in many cases damned spiffy cars summarily executed under the ridiculous boondogle of Cash for Clunkers, accounting for half of the reported economic growth.

But I'm not going to link to them.

so you are not an old stupid lying fart.

You are much younger

No aid to Israel? You realize that foreign aid is tiny compared to military aid....why not just cut the defense budget in half each year until it gets down to 100 billion?

to countries ruled by hereditary royalty, generals who ascended through a coup, theocracies . . .

countries which have a multiparty system, free elections, and universal sufferage are "in" (not cut)

that includes most or all of europe, canada and mexico, australia, new zealand, south korea, japan, taiwan, the philippines, a lot of latin america, india, and even pakistan (for now) and israel.

imho we never should have supported musharraf

I'm already committed to her (potential) candidacy for POTUS in 2012 & am highly impressed by her recent tough-talking, take-no-prisoners approach in Afghanistan -- aren't you?

If she doesn't run and you actually do, I'd be tempted. (I like/mostly agree with seven or eight of your positions here.) But seriously, are you truly just turning 35? If so, I'd have to have some reservations. (Nothing personal.) Just as I did about Obama running for POTUS at age 46 -- fully eight years or so before he would have been ready.

I think his "first year in office" as the media keeps MIS-identifying it, has proven I was right about having those reservations.

Are you also a state legislator, by any chance? :-) And no, it wouldn't matter to me what party you're running with -- but it will matter to you, when it comes time to get organized, raise the necessary $$ funds and start advertising and campaigning.