Could the American people ever elect a Nincompoop for president of the United States?
823750
They did when they elected Bush.   Clinton, despite the Lewinsky scandal was a great president.  People made a big deal over the scandal, it didnt change the economy, it didnt send people to iraq, people made it such a big deal over nothing.
699698
It will never happen.  Our whole system was specifically set up to keep people like you from becoming President.
874290
Not in this time and era. I would like just one person to be for the people that was elected by the people. Great leadership is non existent in today's America. All I have left to do is pick by party, and pick the lesser of the two evils. Good question.
1168966
absolutely. If "none of the above" gets the most votes, the whole process starts over with 2 new candidates. That would be awesome. Never happen though...
362059
it always amazes me that out of over 250 million plus people in the US, they could only come up with Bush.  Someone gets elected leader of a party and you are stuck.  No decent choices to be made.  We have the same problem here in Canada.
838495
It is possible in theory. Of course it probably wouldn't be a very good thing if it did happen. But there would always be opposition to that rule, no matter what. No ruler has ever been popular with 100% of their population. And in current times, there would be a heck of alot of opposition to a singular ruler.
968420
Agreed. I believe that's what voters are for. I mean, think about it: if the Supreme Court was appointed by his daddy, who do you think they'd give (give being the key word) the presidency to? Even if it took longer, wouldn't it've been a better idea if the whole country just re-voted?
267448
I think that would be very beneficial to the US, to simply give a test before they can even begin to run. They would have to make sure it was from a bias party, and that would be the hard part. I mean how many crazy presidents have had, and do have. You would think they would have thought of this, but then crazy people do not think they are crazy.
1128790
Oh, trust me, I tried, but unfortunately individual votes don't count here as much as people think.  You see, we vote as individuals, then the electoral college gets to cast so many votes per state.  They are supposed to do it by whoever had the majority of votes, but I don't think they do all the time.  It's not actually required.  I think that it would have been an even closer race this last time if it had been by popular vote only.\n\nOf course, we probably could have picked a better Democratic candidate, but I didn't get my way with that one, either.  \n\nAnd we can't just kick out our President.  He can only be impeached, and that impeachment may or may not lead to him being removed from office.  So far, no one has managed to find anything impeachable with this president, although I'm sure it's from lack of real effort among the G.O.P.  Unfortunately, a less than 50% approval rate doesn't mean anything. :-(
592329
Yes but they won't.\nThey are true loyal puppy dogs, people on drugs don't think clearly, and most of our world leaders are heavy drinkers and coke junks.\nDon't expect to much of them.\nOh btw we the people elected them in to office somehow.\nSo we the people are corrupted and blatantly ignorant as well.\nI really wonder when Plato cooked up Democracy leaving the people to elect "the Wise people"of our community, if he ever would have come up with this bumbling babbling band of baboons.
127960
It is unlikely that a Presidential Election would be inevitable. If the President dies, becomes permanently incapicitated, resigns or is impeached, he or she is replaced by the Vice President. The line of succession then goes to the Speaker of the House, then the President Pro Tempore then the members of the Cabinet. This is a list of the current presidential line of succession, as specified by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 U.S.C. § 19).\n\n* Dick Cheney, Vice President \n* J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives \n* Ted Stevens, President pro tempore of the Senate \n* Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State \n* John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury \n* Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense \n* Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General \n* Gale Norton, Secretary of the Interior \n* Mike Johanns, Secretary of Agriculture \n* Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce (ineligible due to birth outside U.S.) \n* Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor (ineligible due to birth outside U.S.) \n* Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services \n* Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development \n* Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation \n* Samuel W. Bodman, Secretary of Energy \n* Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education \n* Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs \n\nAs yet, the Secretary of Homeland Security has not been added to the list. The only possibility of needing an election would be if all of the people on the list were incapable of doing the job which is unlikely. Further, proposals to cover this remote eventuality focus on adding the state Governors in terms of seniority to the list.
296219
Yes, we can elect a new President while at war and have done so several times. In the 1960s, Americans were so fed up with our wartime leadership that Johnson dropped out of the race because he knew he could not win re-election, and Nixon was voted in. And if the War on Terror continues, we will be electing a new President in November 2008.\n\nEDIT: dhc_hiker,\n\nPlease get your liberal spewing straight.\n\n1) You asked who we are at war with.\n2) Just because the PRESIDENT says we are at war doesn't make it so.\n3) Then you say we need a country to go to war with OR THIS WAR WILL NEVER END.\n\nFirst you say there is no war but end up saying the war will never end. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. Grow some independent thought and take a stand one way or the other.\n\nGet it straight, Jocko.
795550
It could be possible. The Consitution says the President can only be ELECTED to no more than 2 terms. \n\nIf the current President served as Vice President and due to an illness, death, or some other situation where the previous President could no longer function, than the Vice President would become President.\n\nOnly Franklin Delanore Roosevelt served more than 2 terms. He was elected for 4 terms and served 3 full terms and a few months of the 4th term. \n\nThe consitution was admended after his death to limit a President to only 2 terms.
550385
I don't think it's possible because people want what is no theirs. the U.S. is a prime example. They will keep taking until they have it all and someone is going to fight back.\nthat said we have Bush as a president and the U.S. will keep electing idiots.\nWeapons of mass destruction. HA!!  he just want the oil and people are dying for NOTHING!
798674
Yes!\n\nAnd honestly, I think it will happen in the fairly near future.  And I am sure that if they choose a candidate with a few brain cells, rather than some joke like Jesse Jackson, it would be a positive step for America as we are all from different nationalities in the melting pot of America.  \n\nBy the way, it was but a century and a half ago that the Norwegians and the Swedes wouldn't go to the same church, but rather, they built seperate churches, sometimes less than a mile apart.\n\nHonestly, the racism in America comes more and more from the minorities and less and less from the Europeans.  Hate breeds hate.  The cycle has got to stop.
962065
You will not get an honest answer for this question. PC is what you'll get.\n\nRealistically. that's not going to happen anytime soon in USA. He'll not make it that far because he'll be assassinated when he's nominated.
480047
There will always be a president.  Someone always wants the office...many as the ultimate power trip.  Think of it, the fame and power of being the elected head of a country.  Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the brightest and the best...it usually means a wealthy, dishonest, career politician with his own agenda...not a normal, intelligent, middle income john q. public who really cares about the U.S. and the people.  Just my own opinion....