He was also, by current American standards, a moonbat crazy left-winger noteworthy for saying that a military-industrial complex was a bad thing, that he had to stop and think whether he'd ever gotten any ideas from Nixon, and that the only people who'd want to dismantle the advantages brought by the New Deal were a few insanely greedy millionaires and Texas oilmen.
I've argued that he may have been the last "pure" president, someone who was elected because he was a prominent and respected citizen BEFORE entering the political realm.
All the more reason to make political office subject to a mandatory draft, and burdened with sufficient downside to keep it from being in any way desirable or effective to try to profiteer from it.
The problem now is that it's unappealing to many of the people who would be good at it, and appealing to people who are power-hungry rather than principled and are too hard-hearted to care what the media say about them.
Might well be - but I got the idea from a Legion of Super-Heroes comic published in the late 1970s, wherein Tenzil Kim (matter-eater lad) is forced to leave because he has been drafted to public serviceļ¼
Basically, when it's your turn to rule, all your assets are nationalized... if the country turns a profit, you turn a profit. If the country takes a loss, you take a loss.
:-)
No one wants the position, but when they're in it, damn do they try their hardest to make sure the country's economy is stable if not booming.
Was it someone in the 20th century, wearing a wig?
As a Canadian, my knowledge is presidents before WWII is more or less:
FDR. The boring guy. Maybe Woodrow Wilson? The really fat one. Ted E. Ruxpin (sic). A bunch of men with mutton-chop whiskers. Abraham Lincoln. A bunch of men with very high collars. George Washington.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:16 pm (UTC)Sadly it wouldn't work.
no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:31 pm (UTC)I mean, daily public floggings was my first idea, but obviously that wouldn't work.
no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-29 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-29 02:17 am (UTC):-)
No one wants the position, but when they're in it, damn do they try their hardest to make sure the country's economy is stable if not booming.
no subject
Date: 2008-05-29 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-28 08:17 pm (UTC)Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-28 08:12 pm (UTC)Man, I've been waiting forever for an excuse to post that. :)
Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-28 08:16 pm (UTC)Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 12:26 am (UTC)Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 12:30 am (UTC)Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 01:34 am (UTC)http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/
Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 06:31 pm (UTC)Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 01:02 am (UTC)As a Canadian, my knowledge is presidents before WWII is more or less:
FDR.
The boring guy.
Maybe Woodrow Wilson?
The really fat one.
Ted E. Ruxpin (sic).
A bunch of men with mutton-chop whiskers.
Abraham Lincoln.
A bunch of men with very high collars.
George Washington.
Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 03:40 am (UTC)And yes, that'd be my list too.
Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 06:56 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau
Re: Everyone sing!
Date: 2008-05-29 07:07 pm (UTC)