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Wednesday, 29 March 2006

What's on my mind?

So, Hugh Grant has the new movie coming out, American Dreamz. I LOVE Hugh Grant movies. Not Hugh Grant, just the movies he makes. I know he plays basically the same character in each one, whether he's a slacker or the Prime Minister, but the movies themselves (particularly About a Boy and Love, Actually) are fantastic! And I can stomach him much easier without Elizabeth Hurley, who still hasn't made any movies that people might actually want to go see for any reason other than her breasts. Anyway, back to my point. I may be late on the draw with this, but if you've seen the previews it's got something to do with American Idol and the President. Now, long ago sometime during the Bush vs Kerry election in the early days, I was really struggling. The lesser of two evils thing was really getting to me, and I couldn't understand how this bi-partisan system failed to produce any candidate with the stamina, attitude, reserve, and qualification to actually run this country. And then it dawned on me. American President. We were sitting around one night talking about how we wish there were more "normal Joes" running for office, and that we would never get anything done as long as we continued to support candidates that had spent their entire lives in politics, therefore being corrupted by association. So, hello: we elect our President through reality TV. Anyone who wants to be President has to "audition" and then go through rigorous debates to get down to the top 12, and each week they have to do some kind of task, like balance a city council's budget or spend a day doing charity work, and then we vote for our favorite each week until we have one President standing. The runner up can be the VP. It's Brilliant, I tell you. More people vote, we get a normal person that may actually listen to more than just his advisors, and after surviving American President, he'll have some balls (unlike aforementioned presidential candidate).

posted by: Cannonball14 at 14:43 | link | comments (3) |
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Comments:

#1 29 March 2006 - 16:56

It is, in fact, a brilliant idea. I'd certainly go for it.

greeneyes

#2 30 March 2006 - 00:35

The problem I think is that you just can't make politics that entertaining. I mean MTV has Rock the Vote and tons of candidates try their damndest to be cool. Look at Clinton playing the sax on TV for instance. Or Al Gore admiting to going to Phish shows. Even if the reality show were to exist I don't think it would have as much fame as the stupid reality shows that promise things like funny singing and love affairs and what not.

stellaburkhart

#3 30 March 2006 - 17:48

That's what I mean...it would create a shift in candidates from stuffy old white men that were (for the most part) born with the silver spoon to unique, creative, passionate people that have real ideas about making improvements to our country and government. And I, by the way, loved the Comedy Central coverage of the last primaries, especially the John McCain bit.