Originally posted by: FoBoT
a "regular" person can't run , you won't get on the ballot
even the 3rd party candidates are not "regular" , they are nutjobs, you have to be a nutjob to get nominated by the socialists or green party etc etc
and the only ones that can get on as republican or democrat are career politicians
Anybody who runs for president is a nutjob. To get elected today, you have to go on TV and be a boastful, shallow, evasive ass. In this country as it is, would you want 100 million people to tell you they like and agree with you? If that happened to me, I'd consider myself a gigantic failure.
Besides which, if you think being president would be good, you're not the kind who should be president. When I was a kid, I used to think I wanted to be president so I could fix all the nation's problems. Then I grew up and realized that most people don't want help- they want somebody to blame so they don't have to fix their problems. I also realized that no human has the wisdom to really rule over this mighty nation. Solomon said it best:
1 Kings 3:7-10 (NKJV)
7 Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 8 And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You rhave chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. 9 Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?? 10 The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.