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Hopwin
 Post subject: Turned on the radio
PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:26 am 
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Barack Obama is going to be on local sports talk radio @ 11:50 AM tomorrow to talk about my Browns, Indians and Cavs.

http://www.facebook.com/923thefan

Does he EVER actually preside? Really, like ever?

He's on Letterman, he's doing fundraisers, he goes to Columbus (and mispells O-H I-O) he's doing all the local media in Cleveland.

GO CREATE A JOB, MAKE A TRADE DEAL, NEGOTIATE A TREATY, pass a **** budget, do something to improve the goddamn economy, do something freaking Presidential in the next month!! But no, he's going to talk about my sports teams. Unbelievable.

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Welcome to campaign season. It's no different than any other president.

I'd almost like to see us elect a president for 8 years and only 1 term. Maybe that would:

1. Make people pay attention to who they were voting for and do some research on the candidate.
2. Prevent the current president from doing anything other than their job.
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Hell, just back it down to five years, one term. Hold elections twice a decade. Bam, done.
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FarSky wrote:
Hell, just back it down to five years, one term. Hold elections twice a decade. Bam, done.


President: 4 years, 2 terms.

Senator: 6 years, 2 terms.

Rep: 2 years, 3 terms.

Done and done.

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8 years is a long time to deal with a lemon.

Also we need to go back to Senators being appointed.

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Rorinthas wrote:
Also we need to go back to Senators being appointed.

I've never understood what the supposed advantage of this would be. It's not like your average state legislator is a font of wisdom and knowledge, the special interest money would be even more influential, and old-school machine politics would likely be reinvigorated to a huge degree.
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RangerDave wrote:
Rorinthas wrote:
Also we need to go back to Senators being appointed.

I've never understood what the supposed advantage of this would be. It's not like your average state legislator is a font of wisdom and knowledge, the special interest money would be even more influential, and old-school machine politics would likely be reinvigorated to a huge degree.

Tell that to the Democrats in Ohio.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/O ... ue_2_(2012)

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RangerDave wrote:
Rorinthas wrote:
Also we need to go back to Senators being appointed.

I've never understood what the supposed advantage of this would be. It's not like your average state legislator is a font of wisdom and knowledge, the special interest money would be even more influential, and old-school machine politics would likely be reinvigorated to a huge degree.

Senators were suposed to be representatives of the State while the House was intended to be representatives of the people.

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Rynar wrote:
RangerDave wrote:
Rorinthas wrote:
Also we need to go back to Senators being appointed.

I've never understood what the supposed advantage of this would be. It's not like your average state legislator is a font of wisdom and knowledge, the special interest money would be even more influential, and old-school machine politics would likely be reinvigorated to a huge degree.

Senators were suposed to be representatives of the State while the House was intended to be representatives of the people.


This.

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Rorinthas wrote:
8 years is a long time to deal with a lemon.


Frankly IMHO that's part of the point. 4 years (or 5 as Farsky suggested) really isn't long enough to either get much done or do much damage, consequently I don't think many people are very invested in the electoral process. If you have to deal with the results of the election for 8 years then the "penalty for failure" is greater so my hope would be that people would pay more attention during the election cycle.
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