If you could wave a magic wand and have any President you wanted-for whatever reason-who would it be?
I have added a poll with likely suspects, but feel free to pick any figure from history or a citizen from your very own community and tell us a little about them.
Why did you choose this candidate and how would you expect them to react to some of today's problems?


I'll start out. I would wave my magic beans or wand and put Richard Milhous Nixon back into office. (I guess since I'm magic I could wave away the Watergate scandal-maybe blame it on Clinton or something ).
Richard Nixon would freeze the gas prices. He would reimpose the 55 mph speed limit. He would personally talk to the leaders of China where he spent so many happy moments and ask them directly what they are doing to clean up their act as far as smog and other pollutants goes.
We would have real physical presence in Georgia not just covert wars.
There would be real bipartisan hearings on waste in military spending and Wall Street fraud.
Slash slash slash Nixon would implement a plan to bring the budget into balance with across the board cutting of waste.
I vote for Tricky Dick!

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Thes one thing that people forget about Nixon is that had it not been for Watergate, he would gone down as one of the greatest Presidents this nation's ever had. He wasn't perfect, but he was the right man at the right time. I'll never understand why he allowed his people to carry out the Watergate crap when he had the election sewed-up so tight that it wasn't the least bit necessary. Dumb.


Anyway - Today, my all-time dream ticket would be Richard Nixon/Newt Gingrich. Right now we need a strong leader to respond to the growing Russian and Chinese "situations" and someone who can turn this country back around fiscally. Sick Tricky Dick on the foreign issues and Newt on the domestic ones.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

T. Boone Pickens.

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Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.

If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

Care to elaborate on that? I know he knows a lot about oil and wind power, but what do you think there is about him that would make a good President of the U.S.?

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As much as I like Jefferson,I would have to go with Abraham Lincoln. He would have to undergo a good deal of "updating" but like Abe,I also trust in the better angels of our nature..

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Right now America spends $700 billion every year on foreign oil. That's our money going overseas when it could be staying here. We have to stop this.
That's why I support the Pickens Plan. Check out the website at www.pickensplan.com. If you like what you see, please join me as a Pickens Plan supporter.

If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

Pickens is trying to pad his own wallet. He's heavily investing in windpower and this is nothing less than an attempt at "Gore-ing" (my term for creating a crisis and then profiting from it) energy dependence. If we went to a heavily wind power based energy program, guess who'd be at the head of the pack in making money off of it. Every study on alternative energy says the same thing "it's a nice way to take a small bite out of our energy needs, but it's nowhere near sufficient to replace any substantial portion". Now, I'm all in favor of developig alternative energy sources, but most of the propositions have some pretty substantial negatives that their proponents seem to ignore. Wind power is not reliable, not consistent and wind tubines don't have that great a lifespan. Solar power is expensive to set up, takes huge open areas to make it viable and requires massive amounts power storage to handle the 50% of the time when it's not available. What I'd love to see are lots of micro-power sources. Roof-top solar hot-water heaters becoming the norm on new homes; small generators using diversion canals instead of massive dams; yes, wind power projects; wave and tide power generators; "hit plates" on roadways (plates which when driven over pump fluid through a hydraulic engine driving a generator). There are places for alt. energy programs and this kind of approach can substantially reduce our dependence on foreign oil, but there's no way that they can be done on a scale that ends our dependence. We need to be tapping into our own reserves of fossil fuels and firing up as many clean coal plants as we can. Let's start mining coal on a massive scale (JOBS!!!) and running clean coal plants with OUR coal reserves, instead of using oil from abroad. The US sits on top of the best, most and easiest coal reserves on the planet, yet, we still keep buying oil and wishing that alt. energy can replace oil.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

Teddy Roosevelt...He understood the uniqueness of being American, was environmentally cognizant without being a radical, and knew the military and its political uses better than anyone since (with the possible excption of Dwight)...

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Bill Richardson / Ann Richards

Beyond a dream, this would be the most fiscally responsible and most socially minded administration ever.

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