Posted by
Joyanna Adams on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:58:33 PM
Nobody’s Opinion:
“There is always a way to do it better…find it.”
---Thomas Edison
In the noble quest of witnessing the current presidential race, one wonders just when Your Mama Obama, Hillary Balboa, and Raining John McCain find the time to attend to their regular jobs of being senators? Are they dutifully attending to the business of the states in which they were so lovingly elected to?
The answer is: nope.
So---how much money is being wasted here? The 2008 Presidential election process has become so completely absurd, it is now the nation’s main form of entertainment. This takes away from the seriousness of the event, which although comical to watch, its not comical in its inevitable results.
And since nobody seems to be able to come up with any solutions to stop this year’s cacophony of political bad wind, I will introduce a completely “new” idea. An idea that will seem extremely radical…but then, that’s what happens when you’re desperate for, forgive my choice of words: “change.”
Here it is; it’s called---elect, “The Fab Four.” By that I mean, elect four Presidents, one for each party---Democrat, Republican, Independent and Libertarian, or American. (Don’t even mention green!)
Also--no man or woman running for the office of the Presidency can be holding any kind of elected office while they are campaigning. No one should get paid for doing a job they are not doing, just so they can have their nice cushy job back in case they “lose.”
Keeping the Electoral College is a must, but the super-delegates have got to go. Zogby will have to stick to taking polls.
New parties will be allowed to form, to debate, to caucus, and each can pick its own representative to be one of the four Presidents.
Too strange? Are you thinking one President is enough? What in the world would we do with four?
Well---haven’t we got four right now? Don’t we have to hear all their speeches?
Let’s think about it.
Most people will agree that George Washington was our greatest President. Right after George Washington, the country divided into arguing factions, and for awhile, they didn’t have much power, so the rest of the country just sat around and watched them stab each other in the papers. A pastime we still enjoy, but it’s getting old.
Then---along came FDR, who grabbed so much executive power, created so many new governmental FUBARS, that the practice of creating new big governmental institutions which cost us taxpayers more and more, has seem to become a Presidential right. With each loss of private sector jobs, our Presidents step right in and create new governmental departments for whatever problem is happening at the moment. So many new governmental departments are being formed that soon, the citizens of the new “service” economy (remember we are no longer industrial or manufacturing but service) will just live to “service” the government. Our government is our biggest employer already…just a few more years... I
don’t need to point out the damage that one bad President can do.
Of course, we’d have to change a few things in our Constitution regarding the executive branch, but, hey…isn’t that what the “progressives” want?
“Change?”
My “Fab Four” theory is based on two historical predecessors of unquestionable genius and undeniable success. John, Paul, George, Ringo and John, Ben, George, and Thomas. Yes, the Beatles and America’s Founding Fathers; John Adams, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
Go on…laugh.
Think about it. What was Paul McCartney without John Lennon? And what were Paul and John without the great drumming of Ringo Starr and the perfection of George Harrison’s guitar lines? Four regular musicians, who together (with the quiet genius of George Martin in the background) made the greatest music this side of Beethoven. (Well, that’s just my educated opinion.)
This number of exactly four people seems to work well in getting things done---democratically and mathematically speaking.
Our four main founders were all very different men, and yet, without each one of them America might still be under British rule.
John Adams, the most forgotten of the bunch until David McCullough’s resounding and tireless works, was as in David’s words, “The orchestra leader.” He was stubborn, brilliant, and most of all…honest. Because of John we got George Washington, the Declaration of Independence, fishing rights of the Northern Territory, and money from the Dutch to start us up. He also formed our first Navy. There is a reason he is in the center of John Trumbull’s great “Declaration of Independence” in our Rotunda.
But John had trouble vying fools, and that’s where Ben Franklin came in. Without Ben’s vast knowledge of life and people, and his remarkable talent in the fine art of flattery, the French would not have come to help.
Jefferson was the genius behind the words. Jefferson gave passion to the ideals. But he was a terrible soldier.
Still, the whole mess would have turned out differently without the persistence and great leadership of George Washington. George was just one part of the whole, as were any of these examples. But the four parties together…just look what they did!
Our now entranced two-party system does not make it possible for any independent voices to be heard, nor will they ever be. Party now comes before country, and both parities need a constant supply of money to keep reproducing the same sorry results.
Reprimand the oil companies, but never the taxes put on every gallon, which comes out to a heck of a lot more than the tax on the British tea.
The country has come a long way since 1776. The tremendous power that now comes with the office of the Presidency is just too much for any one common man to hold. The Clinton-Bush dynasties are proof of a need for a buffer against men who just cannot let go of world power.
You might think I’m nuts, but hey---would you rather we continue this?
Okay---you think of something. Anyone---please! Improvise!
We should strive to become again a republic for all the people, not just a bunch of rich autocrats. Politicians have found ALL the loopholes, and the original founder's documents now hold little threat to the ambitious.
Independent “President” Lou Dobbs could give Geraldo a position as ambassador to New Zealand. Republican President “Ann Coulter” could go after the corruption in Congress. Democratic President “Arnold Schwarzengger” could continue to argue for “green” energy all he wants…the other President’s would balance him with reasonable solutions. And the new American Party President could be none other than WND’s Joseph Farrah. He would deal with the Middle East successfully, make Hillary and Bill permanent ambassadors to Rwanda, kick out the UN, update our educational system and take over the New York Times!
Well, the New York Times might not be worth taking over.
Yes, four Presidents. Why not? Maybe the other countries would complain about having to manipulate “four” US Presidents to get their usual bribe money, but hey…too bad.
I’m sure even John Lennon would say if alive today, that our country is really in need of some big-time “Help!” So, if the Beatles were right, all we need is love…in this case, of our country, to find a new and better way.
Right Tom? Right.