Do you think you have the potential to be a good politician?

MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
edited July 2007 in A Moving Train
How on earth do you keep everyone happy?
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    nope becuase im crap at making decisions
  • no, because i have downloaded entirely too much porn.
  • no, because i have downloaded entirely too much porn.

    that may make you a good candidate for a politician.
  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    no, I would probably make bad decisions in the eyes of my constituents (all the while feeling they were the right decisions)
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I would make a good dictator. A really nice one.

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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    How on earth do you keep everyone happy?
    Most politicians keep everyone pissed off.
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  • A lot of people on here (well, in everyday life) have something to say about the world and politicians but I think it would be a very hard job to do. I'm not making excuses for anyone. I just think it would be a very hard job to do PROPERLY.
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    I care about others to much, and not just about myself, so no I could never be a good politician.
  • my mother in law is chairman of the police in my area. She gets on my nerves sometimes but she is a good woman. I don't think they're all corrupt.

    If you and I want to do good for our countries, surely SOME of the ones higher up do as well.
  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    yes, I'd be a great politician, but would only be a one termer, since I'd do right by citizens, not big business.
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I'm a bad public speaker and communicator.. I think I'd also make decisions that only benefit lower middle class, young white males..

    I'd rather run my own life. :p
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    I'd rather be a good leader than a good politician. I think the biggest difference is that good leaders realize you can't make everyone happy but you have to look out for the group as a whole.
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  • chopitdown wrote:
    I'd rather be a good leader than a good politician. I think the biggest difference is that good leaders realize you can't make everyone happy but you have to look out for the group as a whole.

    That's a good point. It's something for me to have a think about.

    I have much respect for (most) of the people I know that work in politics, though.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Yes.

    Would I want to be one? No.

    Something happens to people with the potential to be good politicians when they get together with all the other politicians.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • drivingrldrivingrl Posts: 1,448
    chopitdown wrote:
    I'd rather be a good leader than a good politician. I think the biggest difference is that good leaders realize you can't make everyone happy but you have to look out for the group as a whole.

    Seconded, because "everyone" will never be happy, you just have to make the best decisions for them.

    I see politicians as more of deal-makers than leaders. But I would make such radical changes to this society, I'd be booted out in my first term. lol
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    yes: free blowjobs for everyone!
  • yes: free blowjobs for everyone!

    :D Thanks for that!
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    yes: free blowjobs for everyone!

    Just blowjobs?

    You wouldn't get my vote then! :p
    NOPE!!!

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    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Would I make a good politician?

    Yes, however I would want to be one, too much politricks for me.


    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

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  • g under p wrote:
    Would I make a good politician?

    Yes, however I would want to be one, too much politricks for me.


    Peace
    Earle

    I saw the poitricks thing you wrote. I know I personally couldn't do it but maybe politicians become more corrupt as they move further up the line. They say money corrupts. The people that are lesser known don't get payed very much so where does it all go wrong if their intentions are only good? They don't all start off bad. What makes them change, if they do at all?
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    I saw the poitricks thing you wrote. I know I personally couldn't do it but maybe politicians become more corrupt as they move further up the line. They say money corrupts. The people that are lesser known don't get payed very much so where does it all go wrong if their intentions are only good? They don't all start off bad. What makes them change, if they do at all?

    Isn't like running with the bad crowd in High School?

    The more you are exposed to corruption and "politicking" the more it rubs off?
    NOPE!!!

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    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • I'd be fantastic right up until my immediate assassination.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    I'd be fantastic right up until my immediate assassination.

    That's Classic LOL!

    Peace
    Earle
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Jeanie wrote:
    Just blowjobs?

    You wouldn't get my vote then! :p

    oh dont worry, women not voting would be my next act... they should be busy doing... other things :P
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    oh dont worry, women not voting would be my next act... they should be busy doing... other things :P

    Trust me ss if I was getting busy doing "other things" you wouldn't have the time or the inclination to be voting yourself, let alone trying to stop me! :p
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • A lot of the men on here sound kinda the same.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    No I don't, because I think.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus wrote:
    No I don't, because I think.

    Actually, that may not be fair. I was expecting to get bombarded with insults so it shows I'm wrong.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Actually, that may not be fair. I was expecting to get bombarded with insults so it shows I'm wrong.

    Sorry. I was saying no to being a good politician. To be a good politician you have to sell out your brain.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    Ahnimus wrote:
    To be a good politician you have to sell out your brain.
    I thought it was always their souls they were buying. Please explain how one can sell out their brain? Maybe you did have some luck buying that brain you wanted?
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    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
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