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You Only Need WHAT to be President?

January 30, 2007 at 12:05 pm | In Bush, government, history, political, political commentary, political rants, president, presidential, stupidity | 3 Comments

To become president of the United States, a candidate must have lived in the country for at least 14 years, be a natural-born U.S. citizen, and be at least 35 years old. These are the ONLY qualifications required to hold the highest and most powerful position in this country. This may have worked at the time the constitution was drafted, however, in case you didn’t notice, times have changed.

If we’ve learned nothing from the disaster that now sits in the oval office, it seems the minimum requirements need a bit of upgrading. It need not be complicated, we don’t need pages and pages of legal jargon, just a few important additions to those cited above.This should include a minimum IQ to insure that the person who’s finger is closest to the ‘button’ is in possession of critical thinking skills such as abstract reasoning, creative problem solving, etc. (you know, little things that could come in handy when dealing with the security of millions).

Candidates should also be required to possess basic skills, including proficiency in our country’s native language. The president is and should be a role model for children, instead as an example, we now have someone who obviously didn’t (or couldn’t) do their English grammar homework and yet somehow got to be president. What message does that send? Instead of an intelligent, articulate, eloquent sounding individual, we have someone who speaks his own version of the language. Maybe he is speaking Texobonics, Idobonics (like Ebonics, only dumber); where no rules for pronuncification existify.

In addition to being a role model, this is the individual who represents us (we the people) to the world. Do we want someone we can be proud of, or do we want to be embarrassed? Along with the new qualifications: minimum IQ which should at least be above average, and proficiency in both speaking and understanding English, a psychological evaluation should be included to insure that we never again have a sociopath representing us in Washington.

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We need to do SOMETHING different to keep idiots like Bush out of office.
My god, every time that man speaks he insults the human race!
I honestly think he’s from another planet. Or perhaps later on we’ll find out that he suffers from some mental illness, just like we learned that Reagan had Alzheimer’s and was consulting with Astrologists.

Comment by Artist4Life — March 11, 2007 #

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hello.
teller alaska is big on the politics right now.
so i just had to look.
idk.
nice atricle.
well, off back to work.
bye

Comment by jamie — October 31, 2008 #

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