Elect a President

He seems like a decent guy. He’s a family man which I think bears some importance in a President. He believes in conservation and alternative energy. He went to Stanford. What more can you want?

He’s be the perfect President to jump at every single policy proposal laid before him. The country would be bankrupt, with no credit within 3 1/2 weeks.

I believe that it is time for a black president and I voted for Jones.

And I stand by that vote. I want Luke for veep, though.

No way he’s my president. Arlo? WOODY? No way, Ho-Say

I voted Adam Jones. That’s a good, solid, American name if I’ve ever heard one. Second vote was Jim Johnson (alliteration is potentially subversive, though), and then Garrett Olson (too Swedish, and thus too gay).

if the first thing I thought of was, “sure we’re following the born in the USA rule, but not the 35 year old rule?”

I don’t care about his religion, I care about his ethics and he seems to have them in spades. He’s also very eloquent, classy, a hard worker, environmentally sound. What else could you want? I think Nick would be a good VP. He’s quiet and goes about his business, he’s not about to offend anyone. I could also go with Adam Jones for VP. He’s got the goods as well.

No one wants Aubrey Huff to be the president!

and Kevin Millar would be an awesome duo. They might not get many votes but they’d be entertaining as hell. I’m guessing Millar would have to be the man with Walker as veep.

just looks presidential. Plus every complete century in American history has to have a president Johnson. It’s a rule.

He reminds me of Prez, the Teenage President.

I voted for him—meaning Guthrie; c’mon, I’m not that old—largely because of the bike riding (how green is that?), the Millar quote (“He’s Stanford funny”) and because the other Mormon in the race dropped out.

But back to Hoover: yeah, he was a lousy president. But that was largely the result of bad luck and circumstances beyond his (or anybody’s) control. The Crash and the Depression were unprecedented, and the latter was far too complex a phenomenon for any known remedies to cure. The idea of large-scale deficit spending had not occured to anyone—this was still a nation of “balanced budget” virtues; remember, we’re talking about a decade in which Vermont turned down Federal disaster assistance (after the Great Flood) so as not to become too beholden to Washington—and FDR was still wedded to that notion (“We will balance the budget!”) well into his second term.

Hoover had a record not just as a good administrator but a great one. In the Russian context, the Hoover-led American Relief Administration overcame enormous obstacles (and state hostility) to save literally millions of Russian lives during the terrible famine (some of natural causes, some of more sinister) in the early 1920s. If it had been possible to administrate our way out of the Depression, HH probably would’ve found a way to do it.

So yeah, Guts it is. Somewhere, Hoover will be smiling.