Can't this Election thing be Multiple Choice or something?

Ask yourself what dominates the news if you have following the candidates in the last few days or ANY days.

I have decided that I am exhausted (or angry?) trying to figure the answers to these types of questions:

What is a Christian? Is he / she Christian enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Morman? Is he Morman enough or too much, and should I be scared?
What is a Muslim? Is he Muslim enough or too much and should I be scared?
Is he black enough? Can Oprah make him “more black” or create a new TV star?

All of those questions are the things that SHOULD scare us.

The real question is who is a leader. That is supposed to what we are trying to figure out. Instead, we spend a LOT of time, WAY too much time, micro analyzing each person’s religion or race and whether he has “enough” or to little of it. I don’t really know how to measure “enough.” BUT, I do know how to measure "too much” and that is where we are right now. The unfortunate part is that we still have a lot of months to go, and it will surely get worse. I thought we did away with all of this stuff when we did that Constitution thing? If this religion and race thing is suddenly on the table, can we also ask for a reexamination of women’s right to vote, slavery, bearing arms, freedom of speech and a few other things?

But, of Course, I have a plan. There is a better way to do this, and I propose the following alternatives:

OPTION 1 - “Selection by platform…….and nothing else.”

1. Randomly select 10 people, kidnap them and sequester them for the remainder of “election” season. They can be of any religion / non-religion, or ethnicity (I am still working on how we “randomly select” these people….but I will think of some lottery kind of thing based on registered voters…….or something. I also have to figure out a way that no one questions “Where’s Harry?” Details, details )

2. Have the 10 people reach consensus on the Top 10 Most Important Issues facing us. Just the issues….not their position, yet. At a minimum they must include these:

· National Health care
· Tax reform
· Iraq
· Education
· Environment
· Balance of Trade
. Immigration
.Oil Independence
.National Debt
. OPTOPIONAL - one of your choice

3. Next, have the group write 2 statements (opposing views) for each issue. One that reflects one side of the argument, and another that reflects the opposite view. This is done as a group, so that they each understand BOTH sides of each issue.

4. Have each of the 10 candidates (privately) examine both sides of each issue and select their position on each.

If you are folllowing along in this so far, we now have 10 people, who collectively agreed on the Top 10 Issues and then individually selected his / her position on each of them. Now each has a “platform” (so to speak,) to cenvey to us.......the voters.

5. Each candidate now creates a 4 hour Power Point presentation, at home by himself / herself without the aid of any “spin” folks or artists. Four hours was selected because it is approximately the time of a football game and we know that one’s attention span usually does not go beyond that

6. One, by one, the candidates gives his / her presentation over the course of 2 weeks that can be viewed on TV, the web, public places and then replayed as often as anyone wants a “repeat.” Each candidate, however, must wear something so that we cannot see his / her face, skin, nor determine the sex.( I am trying to figure out how to do this. A burka? I think not. Nor do I think that hoods would be a good idea. I am also still working on if / how we change the voice so no one knows if it is a man or a woman, but I KNOW we can figure out something. UPDATE: I have the perfect solution – every candidate has an avatar! Perfect! We all love cartoons! We just have to be sure to avoid any of that Teletubbies stuff)

7. Registered voters to the polls and vote as they do today. We count it up, see who wins, let the person come out of hiding and we go from there. IF the voters think that he / she is not handsome / pretty enough, we will just keep using the avatar! :)

This is really not a whole lot different politically speaking since we do not really know who the person is until after he is elected, huh?…………..oh, I guess after the election she can tell us what religion she is, only if she wants to

OPTION - 2

Dodge ball – Use steps 1 – 4 and then…………well, you know how dodge ball works

OPTION – 3

Musical Chairs - Use steps 1 – 4 and then……you know this one too


In any event, I think that ANY of my options will take less than a month. Who's in?