If I could be the President of the United States for just one day

[juna]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Crimson Spider [/i]
[B]Ignorance is bliss. Except too little ignorance is an annoyance e.i. those protestors that clutter the streets and disrupt normal public activities because they don't like what's happening. [/B][/QUOTE] O_o That's called Freedom of Speech. You know, that whole Constitution thing.

Protesters are what make this country pretty cool actually.
(Don't know if you are a South Park fan, but they had a really funny episode this season about protesting, it was pretty hysterical.) Anywho - removing those people that "clutter" the streets, would only be limiting the freedoms that you are prolly enjoying as you are reading this thread.

Being killed for your views, not having a say in the way you are being governed?

Please tell me you aren't being serious.?. O_o

[Phantom]

[quote]I hope by southern language you mean Spanish. If you're talking about people who live in southern states being less intellecutal, I find that highly offending. The whole stereotype about people living in the southern states is mostly not true, or was sort of true at one point.

Take Texas for example. It was, at one point, just many saloons, cowboys, southern language, and as some would consider, ignorance. Since then Texas has evolved greatly. It has a great economy, and some of the largest companies in the world call it home. Such as the DFW Airport, the third largest in America.

I detest it when people mock the southern states of America because the the damn stereotypes. It's aggrivating and very idiotic most of the time I see it.[/quote]

BE OFFENDED! I was...Sort of blatently making fun of the southern accent. Not really to make you think that all of you southerners are dumb! Of course not! A lot of the people I know in Lousiana are FRIGGEN smart as hell. I know most of them I know dont have a southern accent. But anyway! Yea I was making fun of it so there *sticks out tongue and does some Canadian slurring of my own*..bleh.

lol. I was actually thinking that this would have been closed long long time ago, either that or there would be more people like Kinetic, who got offended. Anyway...

If I was president for just one day...Alaska would be handed over to Canada and merged with the Yukon...yeah.

Also..uh...Most of the comments which tried to state that we all must take an American history/politics course. NO! I wouldnt waste my time, this thread was kind of a satire to all the openly blunt and stupid suggestions ever presented before us. *looks around* But I'm serious down with the freezy pops!

[Queen Asuka]

[color=hotpink][size=1]Well, I'm glad you're not American because if you were this Southern ***** right here would have something to say about it.

Well, first off, your stupid little thread right here is pointless because you're Canadian. You'd have to be born in the US to be President and to have lived here for at least 14 years. And besides, even if you did, you wouldn't be elected. The Southern states would totally turn on you for that stupid statement and you would be BURNT.

For one thing, it's not a LANGUAGE. It's an accent. And I'm sorry if you can't understand me or if I talk too fast for you, but move back where you come from. I never have a problem comprehending what other Southerners are saying. My mother and father both have very THICK Southern accents and hey, everyone in my family talks fast.

I'm sorry Phantom, but you've highly offended me. And it offends me even more that you don't care. Stay in Canada and as far away from the Southern states as you can.[/color][/size]

[Phantom]

Im coming to New Orleans quite soon in fact! *smiles*

I would also give confederate lovers the freedom to have slaves as well hehe.

I was not trying to offend you and I care not if I have but yea I was expecting you to get out of anyone to get mad at me *looks around*...such anger... *shrugs*

[Queen Asuka]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Phantom [/i]
[B]I would also give confederate lovers the freedom to have slaves as well hehe.[/B][/QUOTE]

[color=hotpink][size=1]And that was the most indirect and harsh insult that could have ever been made to the people who live in the South. Saying something like that is just stereotyping AGAIN by making it seem that all Southern people live on big plantations and want to keep people as slaves. This is the year 2003, not 1803. *sighs deeply* You make me very sad.

Of course I am angry and I have a good right to be. Alot of you people have no clue about America and your harsh stereotypes hurt my feelings.[/color][/size]

[Phantom]

Its not a steriotype queenie. I said it to get you more riled up. Again you predictably blow your nuts out your nostrils. You best not even post in this thread or report it if it offends you THAT much...for your own wellbeing of course!

But in your outbursts of anger and 'hurt'...you have shot filth at me, but meaning it! Which I definately was NOT doing towards the south or anything about the south. It was a joke and if you cant handle a joke why make matters worse? *shrugs* Anyway hate me, love me, kill me or spare me, its all the same. But this WAS a fun thread until you came. Even Kinetic was keeping his cool.

Moderators spare this child of the pain and close this thread.

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]Actually, Texas is one of the only southern states I respect as a whole state because it did fight its own war for independence and decided on its own to become part of the union. lol. I havent heard a soul here that has the stereotypical southern drawl- Clint Eastwoods we are not. There are many great people in the southern states who could teach you alot.

San Antonio is one of the most culturally diverse cities in this state, and if anything you'd hear alot of mexican accents. I've heard Russian, Chinese, German. I even had dinner at a Greek woman's house and portook of her native food, lol.

Maybe before anyone should stereotype or attempt to make fun of a certain race, place, social ladder or try to go on the age old expired stereotypes, they should research what they are trying to turn into a humorous comment before coming off as an intellectually inept person.

*gets on his horse and respectfully tips his cowboy hat, riding off into the sunset* ;P
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[L.A. Rod.]

If I may start off topic for a moment, I live in the south by way of the east, and I'm not offended because I know there are a lot of people across the map that may sound dumb for there accent. Sure, there are a few odd balls in the south, but no worse than what's in New York or Boston... "No Tooalking durin' the Perfooamence." No matter where we are, there are those who sound, for lack of the better word, "slow", and those who just sound sexy... and that's all that matters here in the USA!

Now, If I were president, I would do as follows.

- I would bring back savage executions for the really bad ones.

- In a display of international respect, any terrorists who plot or have commited crimes against our country or any of our allies will be sent back to their country... in a really foolish attempt to make them think we aren't too bad. However, any repeat offenders will be beaten to death with branches.

- I would make illegal all reality shows.

- I would build obsticle courses for protestors... not out of any disrespect, but to see exactly how many are really passionate about their cause.

- I would leave taxes the way they are.

- Tear four corners into the oval office, making it a square. I don't trust shapes that have no corners.

- Finally, I'd interrupt public television for the most part of the day, discussing absolutely nothing, and I will do so in a nine hundred dollar blazer. If George W. Bush can do it, I can to.

All of this in one day.

[Dmitri_Dragoon]

I know I'm going to regret posting this.
If I were president for a day.. sheesh.
Even though I am against it I would legalize Gay/Lesbian marriage.
I would get rid of Isreal and give it to the Palistineans that had it in the first place. I would declare Canada America's greatest ally, and the United Kingdom on the bottom of the list. For I believe they are waiting for us to screw up so they can take over again. (Don't mind me, it's a German thing ;) )
I would go over and personally kick all the French Political leaders asses.
Find the best alternate fuel so we could break contact with all outside countries, and resort back to Isolationalism, and let the world **** themselves over.
I would stop most Save the starving people in other countries funds, and probably our own as well. We need to stop saving lives and start killing. Before the planet gets over populated.
Since the first five deaths like that would be rioted against I would fund research to put up space colonies on the Moon and Mars, also say high to the little green people at Roswell.
I would also force Government Intelligence (oxymoron there) to tell the truth about anything they lied about in the past.

There, that's what I would do.

[Phantom]

Um to clear up anything with anyone. The laugher was not meant for everyone. It was not meant to make queenie laugh or make me a humorous fanatic. Im not. But the general outburst of stupidity for me was kind of funny. I know this isnt very true but I like to think that America makes fun of Canada out in the open and Canada makes fun of America...between themselves. I wanted to act like America I guess. For anyone who likes to see massive making fun of canada, watch "This hour has 22 minutes". It's a canadian show that makes fun of our politics...its funny as hell :)

Also, the accent thing was taken a bit out of proportion. I was not [i]researching[/i] because I was only using the typical [i]steriotypical[/i] modes of fun making. If I had researched and actually put effort and care into making fun of the states, than I would kind of not only defeat my purpose of NOT meaning it and also it would be a waste of time to me cuz I never meant it in the first place.

About making Canada your biggest ally...Why? We dont have (quite literally) the manpower to truely aide anything oversees. Besides our government has already decided not to join with you unless you had UN backing you...*shrugs* We good trading partners however :)....

hmmm.. (a serious one)

If i was president of the united states for one day, I would most definately attempt to make my most unstable oversees allies and non allies happy with my country. I would try to get korea to put their penises back into their pants and stop acting threateningly to the entire of the world and try to make ties with countries you wouldnt see the states so openly bonding with. THAT, would be something I would do (seriously :-D) If i was the prime minister of canada I would shoot spitballs at pictures of jean chretien all day and paste them to the walls so his return would be warm and hearty. and of course tony blair would have the same warm greeting if by chance I could take over the british parliment for a day :)

[Dmitri_Dragoon]

Why of course make Canada our biggest ally publicly. I already consider it that way. Mainly because I think Canada is one of the only countries we haven't had a war against. o_O
So yeah I would declare it publicly, would you rather do what one of my friends said to do? Declare war on Canada? No offense but I think we know who would win. But if that ever happened we would have the rest of the world after us too, personally I would like to see another war with Great Britain, free the Irish and all. But that's just me.

[Lady Macaiodh]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Queen Asuka [/i]
[color=hotpink][size=1]And that was the most indirect and harsh insult that could have ever been made to the people who live in the South. Saying something like that is just stereotyping AGAIN by making it seem that all Southern people live on big plantations and want to keep people as slaves. This is the year 2003, not 1803. *sighs deeply* You make me very sad.

Of course I am angry and I have a good right to be. Alot of you people have no clue about America and your harsh stereotypes hurt my feelings.[/color][/size][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=darkblue][size=1]It's okay, Asuki. You get used to it after awhile. Unfortunately. >_< This is why I avoid going up north. My accent gets so much thicker up there. I think I do it subconciously just to get a reaction. Heh.

My mom has this weird complex... people used to make fun of her as a kid for her accent and for being a southerner, so she trained herself to not have an accent. So when I was growing up, she gave me the complex, too. I don't have much of an accent anymore... but I have my moments. Hee!

Like I said, it usually comes out when people are being ignorant about the South. I listen to the rants for awhile, then completely change the subject, launching into a long schpiel in the thickest accent I can muster. They usually get totally embarassed and leave. It's hilarious.[/size][/COLOR]

[Semjaza]

I like southern accents... heh.

Hell, just going to southern Illinois, I was out of place. Everyone had southern accents and made fun of how I said "Chicago".

Anyway, I thought this was about being president, not being [i]god[/i]. President's don't have remotely godlike power, and half of this stuff would be downright impossible to do even in your wildest dreams.

[Queen Asuka]

[color=hotpink][size=1]Well, Lady M, I will take your advice. It's just that people from the North of the West always come into the South and make out like they are better than Southern people just because we have an accent. Well, what if I think Northerners are the ones with accents? It's so stupid to me.

My mother has the funniest accent. And she likes it when people compliment her on it. When she worked at the Cracker Barrell, the ones who liked her accent always gave her the best tips.[/color][/size]

[Deedlit]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Phantom [/i]
[B]I would also give confederate lovers the freedom to have slaves as well hehe. [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=009966]That was uncalled for, Mike, even if it was just a joke.[/color]

[Neoclone-7]

Hmm...

If I was president for a day I would:
1. Abolish school gyms and in their place put laser tag arenas
2. Make becoming fluent (or at least competent) in at least two foreign languages mandatory in school.
3. Make it illegal for people to own cars that don't get at least 25 miles to the gallon.
4. Lower the price on hybrid cars and make them HIGHLY tax deductible.
5. Make video gaming mandatory in 1st through 3rd grade to increase hand-eye coordination.
6. Make it illegal to stick gum to the bottom of furniture (chairs, tables, walls, etc.)

And a ton of other stuff... ^_^

[Japan]

If I was president for a day, I would:

1. make manga and anime free for all
2. have there be anime conventions in every city...not just the big ones like Seattle or Chicago
3. Buy all of the anime merchindise in the world and share it with all anime otakus
4. Go to Japan

[Phantom]

[quote]That was uncalled for, Mike, even if it was just a joke.[/quote]Why really? Hmm..Sam what would you do if you were the President for a day?

[James]

[color=#335062]Hm...well, apart from the total ignorance I've seen in some posts (ie: removal of gay rights and the US being imperalist), I'll throw my imaginery policies into the pot. ~_^

If I were President, I would...

1) Wipe clean all debt from poor countries.
2) Take the amount of money spent on AIDS medication in Africa, and increase it ten fold or more.
3) Increase all money spent on medical research by significant amounts.
4) Inject thousands of construction workers and infrastructure specialists into Iraq to get that country back on its feet sooner rather than later.
5) Slap some kind of economic sanctions on Japan for its continual and offensive abuse of anti-whaling treaties. Or at the very least, I'd call a spade a spade and reveal Japan's activities infront of the UN.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Not much, I guess. ~_^

Just a few things I thought of when I read this thread.

Oh and...those of you who think that the President has god-like powers are way off the mark. It shows you don't know much about US politics or politics in general.

If the President had the kind of power that some suggest, America would be a dictatorship and not a democracy. As it stands, there are [i]many[/i] checks and balances, designed to "filter" Administration policy.[/color]

[Mitch]

[size=1] If I could be president, I wouldn't be. Simple as that. I hate the government sometimes enough as it is...and I just wouldn't be a good president. I don't think a lot of people would, either.

I wouldn't even want to do anything doing with politics. I am very very scant on that subject, I only have what I've pretty much gleaned slowly from it, which isn't much.

I'm not even sure I can tell the exact difference between republicans and democrats, that's how uninformed I am in this subject.[/size]

[Deedlit]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Phantom [/i]
[B]Why really? Hmm..Sam what would you do if you were the President for a day? [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=009966]It's on page two, but I'll post some of it again. ^_-[/color]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Deedlit [/i]
[B][color=009966]On a different note, I would:

*make it harder for children under the age of 16 to get ahold of cigaretts, drugs, and alchohol.

*raise minimum wage so that people on the streets could get a job and have at least enough to support themselves. I'd also try to make it easier for them to get a job.

*aid Mexico in any way to try and make their water more drinkable and clean.

*give equal rights to everyone, including gays/lesbians.

*have an OB Reunion at the White House during that one day that I'm president. :D
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[Lady Macaiodh]

[color=darkblue][size=1]Well, obviously my original post was a joke. In all seriousness, I agree with Mitch on this one. There's no way I'd ever be president. There'd be way too much pressure and red-tape BS to deal with. Besides, I've had enough of politicians to last a lifetime. Most of them end up as crooks.[/color][/size]