2008 Presidential Poll

[shadowkat]

[Poll #1141747]

Additional Questions -

1. If you were to pick one critical issue, what would it be?
2. Who was your favorite American President?
3. Who is your least favorite American President?
4. Who is your favorite world leader?
5. What Country would you like to live in and would feel safest in?
6. What criteria do you use when selecting a leader or President? What is most important?
Character? Ability? Background? Experience? If Experience - how much do they need?
7. How much weight do you put on what someone does or does not do in their personal life or non-public life? (ex. Cheats on their spouse. Smokes pot in college. Etc.)
8. Do you vote with your gut or your head?
9. Does it matter to you if the candidate is religious?
Does it matter if they have a wife/husband and kids?
10. To what extent does race, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality affect your decision?
11. Experience? What do you consider the necessary amount or level of experience to do the job of President?

[My answers to the above are posted as response to this post]

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

1. For me, the one critical issue is global warming. If we don't fix that, nothing else will matter. And next to that is nuclear proliferation, quiet now, but still a reality.
2. Franklin Roosevelt--he took us the way we need to go. A man of great courage.
3. George W. Bush. A fool.
4. His Holiness the Dalai Lama
5. Hmmm. The countries where I'd feel safe aren't necessarily the ones where I want to live. I'm sure Switzerland is secure, but India and Mexico call me.
6. Different criteria at different times. I always want someone progressive, and right now lean towards the charismatic.
7. Personal life--not important. I think you can be a good leader and an unpleasant person. But do value honesty.
8. Combination.
9. No. No.
10. Not a lot, but would love to see someone from a previously excluded group get in--both women and blacks in this category.
11. Doubt anything really prepares a person for that job, but maybe background as a governor (but not of Texas!)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your answers.

Interesting - India and Mexico...why? Is it the culture? Or the landscape? Or both?
I've been to one but not the other...didn't much like Mexico - too dry (not a fan of deserts, I'm afraid, I can never breath in them).

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Very much the cultures. In Mexico, the place I love is Oaxaca--it is dry there, but not totally desert. And I hope to go to Veracruz, which I hear is not desert at all--more tropical coast. India I haven't yet been to, but there is so much history, art, religion, dance, food, and just culture in general--and in the very south, again the beautiful tropical coasts, and in the north, the mountains.