- Joined
- 20 Sep 01
- Moves
- 159732
@Drewnogal saidBrains
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
@Drewnogal saidPeople who inspire others to get on board and pull together in hard times.
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
“I have a dream!”
@Drewnogal saiddear humanity,
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
i would apply for the job of supreme human
but i do not want that job
sincerely,
rookie
@Drewnogal saidThere's a scene from the West Wing where Donna and Josh are talking about what makes a good President. Donna has just returned from a seminar for the other candidate where the candidate was talking about self-help book he wrote.
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
DONNA I'm talking about this. So the guy's consulted for Ritchie. He's a buffoon, but he's harmless. Why should it be part of the campaign?
JOSH Because it's not harmless in an American President.
DONNA Nothing he said was wrong or objectionable. As opposed to the man who was sitting next to me whose name was Fern.
JOSH Open this book to any page. Josh hands the book to Donna who opens the book and hands it back to Josh.
JOSH "It's good to be trapped in a corner. That's when you act."
DONNA That happens to be true.
JOSH It's Immanuel Kant! "Duty! Sublime and mighty name, that embraces nothing charming or insinuating but requires submission." Every year a million freshman philosophy students read that sentence.
DONNA So he cripped Kant. Isn't that what you're suppose to do?
JOSH It comes from a 193-page book called "A Critique of Practical Reason." It's about metaphysics and epistemology. Tomba's impressively boiled it down to two-thirds of one page. Give me another one.
DONNA "Look outside the cave."
JOSH Right. That's from an old paperback called "The Republic" by Plato. Lucky Tomba's been able to fit on fortune cookie so it suits the attention span of the Republican nominee. Here he quotes Robert Frost. "Good fences make good neighbors." Did he talk about that?
DONNA Yeah.
JOSH What did he say?
DONNA Basically, that if you stay within your personal space, you'll end up getting along with everyone.
JOSH Is that what Frost meant?
DONNA No, he meant that boundries are what alienate us from each other.
JOSH Why did he say "Good fences make good neighbors?"
DONNA He was being ironic, but I still don't see...
JOSH What does this remind you of? "I believe in hope, not fear." "I'm a leader, not a politician." "It's time for an American leader." "America's earned a change." It's the fortune-cookie candidacy! These are important thinkers, and understanding them can be very useful and it's not ever going to happen at a four-hour seminar. When the President's got an embassy surrounded in Haiti, or a keyhole photograph of a heavy water reactor, or any of the fifty life-and-death matters that walk across his desk every day, I don't know if he's thinking about Immanuel Kant or not. I doubt it, but if he does, I am comforted at least in my certainty that he is doing his best to reach for all of it and not just the McNuggets. Is it possible we would be willing to require any less of the person sitting in that chair? The low road? I don't think it is....
1 edit
@Drewnogal saidSorry that I can't answer in the way that seems to be requested, but I would think:
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
honesty
integrity
OK, maybe a chameleonic diplomatic ability
literacy
the ability to make an oath and keep it
comprehensive knowledge of the US Constitution and the subsequent body of law
being more of a public servant than self-serving
respectfulness toward others
Might have left out some relevant traits, but I hope those are good for starters.
@Drewnogal saidTom Hanks as president, Bradley Walsh as Prime Minister (UK).
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
@Earl-of-Trumps saidGovernment should not be run like a business.
@Drewnogal
I would prefer a businessman or a high court justice.
- Joined
- 10 Jan 08
- Moves
- 22326
@Drewnogal saidI'd offer everyone a free burrito of their choice to vote for me and get them addicted, then introduce a burrito tax after I'm elected. Use the money generated to improve health services.
Wealthy businessman? Reality TV star? Comedian? High court judge? Ex secret agent? Great chess player?
What would you include in your CV for this job?
@Earl-of-Trumps saidI believe a president or prime minister should be somebody who isn't totally focused on his own career. There are such people.
When they don't run it like a business, the spend a $trillion on pure crap. they don't know the word 'austere'
@Earl-of-Trumps saidWhat is required is effective oversight.
When they don't run it like a business, the spend a $trillion on pure crap. they don't know the word 'austere'
In Switzerland, the government has no authority to raise a tax without a plebiscite; that means the people actually pay the tax ultimately decide whether the tax will be implemented or not. This is a recipe for fiscal responsibility I highly recommend.
There are very good reasons why government should not be like business. In business it is perfectly acceptable to give the contract to repave your company parking lot to your son-in-law‘s construction company. In government is totally unacceptable to send your son-in-law to Saudi Arabia on an unknown mission, and he comes back two billion dollars richer. That is outright corruption.