Presidential candidates are the most unpresidential?

Question

It seems to me that the U.S' democratic system means that in order to be elected president, you must exhibit the qualities that are most unpresidential. i.e cat fighting , name calling, mudslinging, lying, cheating, stealing, bribing, talking in sound bites etc.

How do we remedy this? My only idea is to limit the amount of time candidates can campaign for, but that brings up its own set of problems.

Answer 1

The state of politics today is the product of a much larger system: pop culture. Politicians indulge in cat fighting and name calling because Americans have shown that they just eat that up on reality shows. They talk in sound bites because the majority of Americans don't bother to watch a debate from start to finish, or even read the entirety of a newspaper article. The political system and electoral process was always intended to be representative of the American people in some fashion. That is more true today than it ever was in the past.



We won't be able to reform American politics until we understand why crap like American Idol becomes popular.

Answer 2

Yes, I think that the first Presidents of the United States would be quite offended at all of these political tactics and personal smear campaigns. The best way to remedy it would be to bring our original leaders back to life - in order to teach the current system and structure and politicians and wake them up. But, since that isn't possible - well - it would take someone with a gazillion dollars and tons of political leverage to stop it. The only way to woo a politician - is to sway them with the promise of money to get them to stop their nonsense - but then you'd only be playing into their game if you did that. I think since they have made campaigning into a game, we should come up with rules, regulations and consequences - just like sports. Penalties for improper behavior, if they do or say certain things in a debate, they lose time to speak and so on. Yeah - they've turned it into a game - the problem is - there is no referee!

Answer 3

It is not just the democrats who do that but also republicans. It goes back and forth. I thought we were all adults here right? I mean aren't we trying to promote peace among others but no wonder there is bullying and name calling in schools..look at who we have to learn from. I can't stand it but there isn't much we can do about it. Hopefully someone with some money can come up with a good idea. I think to limit the time a candidate can campaign is a good idea actually. It may have it's own problems but at least it will cut back on how much time the people are exposed to childlike behaviors.

Answer 4

Its like preachers begging for money. As long as it works it will continue.



You could limit candidates to only talking about themselves and their own policies. That would prevent some mudslinging.

Answer 5

It's like any other competition and these candidiates want to win! Winning means making your opponents look bad. I think it may be unavoidable. I mean the only way to stop it would be to make some kind of law against campaining anything but your political beliefs and not being allowed to bash one another... but that would never happen. It has to be done because a lot of voters are too uneducated about law and public policy to understand anything that is going on politically other then the lying stealing and cat fighting.

Answer 6

i think of it incredibly is the worst element which could probably happen in an election. Canidates might desire to be chosen because of the fact they might do a competent job. some all human beings is asserting that if McCain wins it incredibly is in simple terms going to be yet another white guy in workplace. and that i say who cares? the nice and cozy button is that the president might desire to have the journey to steer our united states of america and McCain in simple terms has extra journey and can desire to do a extra suitable job.

Answer 7

I see a couple of things happening in recent decades:

One is that mud slinging has become a way for candidates to say 'I'm not as bad as he is'.

The other is that no one it seems no one who is truly "presidential" wants the job.

Answer 8

1. u can only donate to people u can vote for

2. no pac's, corporate, lobbyist, or foreign donations

3. must be us citizen to vote

4. unlimited donations but public list of the donors and how much they have given

5. 6 month campaign cycle

6. no matching federal funds

7. no donations to political parties, the politicians can give a part of there raised funds to their own parties ( cause you cant vote for parties, but for people.)

Answer 9

Ron Paul. He is just plain creepy to me. He gives me the chills.













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Answer 10

Who Would We Elect?

By Cathy O’Brien 9/21/07





The tragic event of 9/11 is one more trauma that those in control of our government used to reinforce the grip they had gained on u.s. all in the wake of Kennedy’s Assassination.Most recent efforts to further terror-eyes this nation to assure that sElections go through as planned are, for now, averted.Could it be that people are finally waking up to real-eyes truth, gather their strength of spirit, and stand against this mind controlling, warmongering, environmentally destructive Shadow Government?





Elections were never a worry or consideration by those I was exposed to on a White House/Pentagon level during the Reagan Bush Administration. It had been this way at least since Gerald Ford took office as President, and will remain this way until people realize that elections, like political polls and electronic voting machines, are contrived, controlled and pre-determined [1].





My insight and exposure to political power began when I was thrust into the CIA’s now infamous[2] MK Ultra Project for mind control while growing up in Ford’s political district in Michigan [3].My mind control experience advanced accordingly as Ford’s political career [4] escalated to the White House as un-elected Vice President in 1973-74 and on to un-elected President 1974-77. As President, Ford’s cabinet included George Bush, Sr. as head of the CIA, Dick Cheney as Secretary of State, and Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. Ford’s Press Secretary, Jack Valente, moved directly into the most influential position in Hollywood as head of the Motion Picture Association of America.There Valente’s influence over the arts included assuring that people would be fed media propaganda and “facts” from contrived political polls while diverting them with movies such as those made by his close friend Ronald Reagan.Most people had already forgotten Valente was riding in Kennedy’s motorcade the day of the assassination—a day that changed u.s. all.





In the aftermath of national trauma, it is easy to lead people away from truth with mass mind manipulation through control of information dispensed by the media.Any time trauma occurs, people are easily led.This is human nature as capitalized on during Adolph Hitler’s regime, back in times of the Catholic Crusades and Inquisition, and back even further as described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.We all formulate our thoughts, perceptions, and actions based on what we know. We need to know that our knowledge base is being deliberately altered through today’s advanced technologies by those in control of our media, corporations, and our so called “freely elected” government.





Terror and trauma tactics have been deliberately used to control u.s. for decades. Open your eyes and you will see the same people in control of our government today.Follow the money around Diebold [5] electronic voting machines [6] and you will find Cheney and Bush again.I know from my own experience with Bush and Cheney that they assumed their political positions with no concern for “elections” that they clearly knew were pre-determined.





As detailed in TRANCE Formation of America, which was written from compiled and proven testimony delivered to both houses of the US Congressional Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Oversight [7] in 1995, I personally witnessed George Bush, Sr. and his close friend Bill Clinton discussing elections.It was 1984, and I had just been severely traumatized in a Most Dangerous Game military maneuver at a CIA training compound in Lampe, Missouri to ready me for MK Ultra mind control programming.Bush and Clinton were as unconcerned with my presence as they are with the American populace as a whole, which continues to prove to be an error in judgment.They fail to consider the strength of the human spirit.Once Intelligence insider Mark Phillips freed me from the grips of robotic mind control in 1988, my free thought and ultimately free will to act were restored.Subsequently, Mark and I became US Government Whistleblowers and continue to relentlessly blow the whistle on this criminal faction of government.





In 1984, George Bush told Bill Clinton that when the American people become disillusioned with Republicans leading them into the New World Order [8], Arkansas Democrat Governor Bill Clinton would be maneuvered into place as President.Clinton was to be followed into office by Republican Bush, Jr. who was actively being programmed through MK Ultra mind control means in preparation for his role as President[9].When another illusion of change would be needed to appease the public, Hillary Clinton as a “female” Democrat was to be placed into the office of President thereby keeping the same family of dictators in full operation.





Mark and I have been speaking out against this handful of criminals since 1989 when I first regained conscious awareness through healing techniques detailed in ACCESS DENIED For Reasons Of National Security.Now I wonder, why do Americans continue following leaders we did not elect?When the people lead, leaders follow, and it is now time for those in power to step aside and allow for truth, peace, and justice to prevail.Truth frees u.s. from fear and empowers us to gather our strength of spirit and make ourselves heard.We do have a voice, and we have no time to lose in using it to derail this D.A.R.P.A. [10] generated plan of dominance.As a major first step, we must logically consider restoring paper ballot voting in favor of controlled and contrived electronic voting machines to assure us a means of exercising our rightful voice and free choice at the polls!





Looking at today’s candidates, I continue to recognize many of the same old names and faces in addition to Hillary’s.Mitt Romney, son of former Michigan Governor George Romney, was a bit older than I when I was exposed to the abuse of political power as a young child in MK Ultra.His father’s plan for combining Catholic mind control techniques with advancing technologies as a powerful form of mind control in the LDS Mormon Church are documented in both TRANCE and ACCESS DENIED.Subsequently, Mitt Romney’s historic influence in Utah and the Mormon Church prepared him for his key position as Governor of Massachusetts at the height of the Catholic child abuse scandal emanating from Boston [11].Having blown the whistle since 1989 on Boston’s connection in MK Ultra due to the profound impact it had on my childhood [12], I was astounded along with much of the world’s populace to see Cardinal Law promoted [13] after being found guilty of conspiracy to cover-up. Do we really want to hear Mitt Romney’s justifications and manipulations as he fulfills the illusion that we have a “choice” for President?





New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson, who was running for President until October 2007, is documented in ACCESS DENIED for his role in the Mexican/CIA cocaine and heroin black ops, which my experience proves leads directly into black budget funding, D.A.R.P.A., mind control, and this same handful of Shadow Government criminals struggling to maintain their power over u.s. all.





Can Presidential hopeful John McCain think to rise above marching orders in light of his own mind control ordeal?Who is hiding behind him in the Shadows?





In the wake of 9/11 and all that it entails, why are we having daily exposure to the media acclaimed “Mayor of America” Rudy Guiliani?Could it be to remind u.s. of a trauma we will never forget? Fear, as an emotional diversion, stands in the way of the pursuit of truth.





It is inexcusable that Hillary Clinton be placed as President in light of the overpowering damaging evidence against her and the people behind the “seen” that she follows.I could write a book on my direct exposure to her, and have!Both TRANCE and ACCESS DENIED detail my experience with her and her plans for u.s. all.





For nearly two decades, concern for humanity has compelled me to sound the alarm on her secret agenda as loudly as a whistle can blow! Hillary is by far the biggest Presidential threat to this nation that I’ve ever known.The controlled media spotlight has recently shifted from Bill Clinton’s global travels with his comrade-in-arms Bush, Sr. to his long-planned support campain for Hillary.With terror levels “elevated” since 9/11, it is easy for the media to maintain focus away from the treasonous crimes that proliferated during the Clinton Administration.Despite having been “impeached”, the perversion diversion that the media burned into the ears and minds of the public serves to only amplify his voice today and ultimately promote Hillary’s Presidential campaign.This kind of long-term mass mind conditioning is exactly what D.A.R.P.A’s computers generate. Could it be that the current Presidential veto of much needed child health care is deliberately setting the course for Hillary’s highly publicized health care plan by intensifying need?





There are no coincidences where D.A.R.P.A. is concerned, and it concerns me deeply that this ultra TOP SECRET computer continues to predict the course for u.s. all unnoticed. Look closer behind the “seen” into the Shadow Government and you will find other self-appointed leaders like my former owner in MK Ultra, US Senator Robert C. Byrd.Byrd’s powerful Appropriations Committee position extends to his friend and D.A.R.P.A. funding arm US Senator Patrick Leahy. Could Leahy’s position as head of the US Judiciary Committee [14] allow for D.A.R.P.A’s plan to unfold above the law as the recent traumatic Blacksburg massacre suggests?





When people wake up to the reality of D.A.R.P.A.’s Artificial Intelligence technology, we as real humankind can effectively take back our government, our Constitution, and our lives.For all the human and artificial intelligence these self appointed leaders possess, they lack wisdom.Wisdom is derived from truth and love, which is as alien to them as current warmongering planet-depleting ways are to u.s. Wisdom out-thinks a criminal mind every time, and it is time we derail D.A.R.P.A.’s inhumane plan today.Do not allow Hillary, or any other illusion of change, to further this plan!





People often ask Mark and me who would we elect given our inside knowledge. The answer is simple.First, elections must count rather than be predetermined and manipulated by D.A.R.P.A. generated computerized electronic voting machines.Once paper ballets are re-established, we would chose someone true-to-soul with the strength of spirit to restore American Constitutional values of freedom and justice for all [15].Truth, in deed, makes u.s. free, and once people know their own truth, it is easy to recognize it in others.With truth comes free thought, and free thought allows for strength of spirit, wisdom, and clarity of vision necessary to make a world of difference for u.s. all.





Demand that paper balloting be restored.





Support, financially and otherwise, and vote for whomever has a record of upholding our sacred Constitution and Bill of Rights Amendments.

Wake up and support u.s. in bringing truth to light.









[1]TRANCE Formation of America, p. 161; ACCESS DENIED For Reasons Of National Security, Chapter 23 Pandora’s Box





[2] 1977 US Congressional hearings





[3]TRANCE Formation of America, Chapter 1 My Introduction to Humanity; ACCESS DENIED For Reasons Of National Security, p. 26





[4] Ford was on the Warren Commission that covered up the Kennedy Assassination





[5] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=106584&p=irol-govboard





[6] http://www.alternet.org/rights/16874/





[7] These are the same committees that met secretly and determined that the US should attack a sovereign nation for having Weapons Of Mass Destruction.





[8] Global plan of world domination as intended by Nero of old, then Hitler, and now Bush who “stays the course” in accordance with D.A.R.P.A’s computer (see footnote 10).





[9] ACCESS DENIED, Chapter 25 p.185





[10] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ACCESS DENIED, Chapter 42 Selections





[11] http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/





[12] TRANCE Formation Of America, p. 83





[13] http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDA103EF93BA15756C0A9629C8B63





http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42581-2005Apr10.html





[14] One branch of D.A.R.P.A. is located in Blacksburg, Virginia where the Blacksburg massacre of 33 students occurred on the date of a Judicial turning point for our nation, which “delayed” hearings against gun control, regarding former Attorney General Gonzolez, and impeachment charges against Cheney.





[15] Thus far, only one candidate stands for these values.





http://forreasonsofnationalsecurity.com/index.htm