On 2/11/08 1:29 PM, in article 13r150pdklppr18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"T.J.
Higgins" <ernest.p.worrell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <C3D54A61.5763%kendrickgary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Gary Kendrick
wrote:
>> Sorry folks it's just discouraging in ways. What would be exciting to
me is
>> to see a third party candidate come from nowhere and capture everyone's
>> attention and actually do what they say can't be done and that is WIN
>> without being a party player.
>
> Back in November, Newsweek did a fine story about NYC Mayor
> Michael Bloomberg. In March he is supposedly going to announce
> if he is going to run or not. He would be a 3rd party candidate.
> He also has a mere $13 BILLION of his own money to play with.
> That will buy a lot of TV ads.
>
> http://www.newsweek.com/id/68113
>
You know Michael could be a decent choice but I still think so many people
are entrenched into party systems and politics that even with his money it
wouldn't help. As Tango said it would take years for a viable third party
to get going. There is one alternative that somehow never really got
started and I wonder if it would ever be allowed to happen. One reality
show, like American Idol, was going to actually be called the "American
President" in which ordinary people would plead their case before the
American Public in a reality TV type series and the last person standing
would then be given enough to start an actual campaign under an
independent
status and of course the show would have given them enough exposure, to
them
and their ideas, that they might have a chance against the party system.
Other than that type of system I doubt we would ever see any real
alternative, unless a total fringe candidate, field any kind of run at the
White House.
Obama scares me also. While yes he's a man of charisma and the seemingly
man of the moment he has a past also that isn't so far removed. Before
politics he wrote material in a book that would disqualify any white
candidate had they written the same type of material about a person of
minority status. While he, (Obama) or any other person of minority status
does have valid reasons to be disgruntled and express disappointments but
there again there are too many people living in the past to break out into
the future and they or their own mentality is what is holding them back.
Mind you this is not saying everything is Rosy and that there are not
still
problems between the races, there still is, but bias runs two ways and
also
occurs on both sides. Problems are overcome through understanding and in
both directions. Are we ready for a minority president? I think we
actually are and that there are very good candidates out there also but
again the problem is that most likely we don't know who they are nor never
will.
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