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

Re: your answers

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Yeah, with all the wonderful things FDR did (and his national jobs initiative where they built roads, bridges, schools, libraries, and post offices across the country was tremendous), I'm afraid we cannot forget the horrors of the Japanese internment camps (striping citizens of their property and businesses without any evidence of any kind of wrong doing).

I do have to say, in your brother's defense, that there is a purpose and value in third parties. When the two parties become too much alike, taking money from the same lobbyists so that both parties are in the pockets of the same special interests, then third parties are the only way that citizens can voice their desire for change. Throughout the political process the two parties have done everything possible to legislate difficulties preventing third party candidates from getting on the ballot, and from getting matching funds. I really feel that one of the changes I would like to see in this country is to open up the process more, and make it easier to let dissenting voices be heard. My Father voted for Dick Gregory in 1968 because he was the only anti-war candidate (both Nixon and Humphrey were committed to continuing in Vietnam), and I have to respect that wasted vote.