How to elect an American President

How to elect a President by Don Campbell - 03-05-2007

We have been doing it wrong for years. Ever since the Television made this a beauty contest instead of an honest exchange of ideas along with the normal behind the scenes backstabbing.

It's time to hire Simon Cowell to run this show. Using his amazingly successful American Idol as a premise we could instead have The American President.

Starting the season would be thousands of wannabes lining up at stadiums where the show would highlight the incredibly stupid (as does American Idol). Howard Dean would never get past Simon from the get go. I can just imagine Simon telling Howard "You are a complete and utter moron and have no place on this show. Paula would say "you're just not good enough looking to be President" and Randy would say "Yo dog, you really need to learn to think before moving your lips".

The show would be divided to find two candidates at the end as you would have to come up with a final Liberal and Conservative to actually run for President.

I personally don't think that any candidates from either party would get past the first couple of rounds let alone make it to the final 12.

Let's face it, Simon finds great singers. I think he could help us find a great President.

How do you think Hillary, Rudy, Obama and the rest would really fare in such a contest?

All gone by round Three. The weekly voting would be so much fun for the American people.

They might just become interested. We might just find brilliance.

Just think, Simon Cowell savior of the Republic...how ironic would that be?

donc@bellsouth.net

Don, I like the concept, but....

Submitted by AF A-10 on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 1:28pm.

You remember what happened when we tasked Dick Cheney to go find a VP. Can you imagine president Simon Cowell? Just a quick constitutional rewrite (which seems to be an easily ignored document right now anyway.) I prefer the gong show, where we all have mallets and gongs.

Kevin "Hack" King

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Unique concept!

Submitted by Davids mom on Sun, 03/11/2007 - 6:12pm.

. . .however, Simon missed big time on judging Jennifer Hudson. The American people and her peers awarded her the Golden Globe and the Academy Award! How about going with Randy? (Love your humor)

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