Speaking as someone who is not american, I would love to see Sarah Palin be president. It’d be hilarious. The other heads of state would eat her for lunch, plus the daily show would be spectacular for 4 solid years.
I AM thinking of going to grad school in the US (should they be dumb enough to accept me) so in the interest of taking this seriously, and considering I’m pretty sure Powell doesn’t want to run, I’d be alright with Huckabee. I’m not crazy about his fundie beliefs, but he seems like an overall decent fellow. If I’m gonna have four years of crap I don’t agree with, it might as well be done by someone I don’t want to hit.
Huckabee is just another wacko. Jim Jones was a nice guy. Everybody liked him and thought he was doing great work in California, which he was. When people like this get into a position of nearly absolute power, we all pay the price. I offer Dick Cheney, et al as exhibit A.
Ah yes Jim Jones, a man beloved and praised by the 70s San Francisco liberals including First Lady Rosalyn Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, Governor Jerry Brown, Mayor George Moscone, and Harvey Milk and given the position as head of San Francisco’s Housing Authority Commission. Incidentally he was a Communist (or at least a Socialist indistinguishable from Communism) and orchestrated a mass suicide of over 900 people. To compare him to Mike Huckabee doesn’t make any sense.
From that list I picked Romney because I don’t think takes social conservative ideas very seriously. I don’t mind an economic conservative ( I’m moderate on economic issues) but I can’t stand a social conservative.
Bloomberg would be my idea choice. Followed by Schwarzenegger. Both economic conservatives who are pretty moderate socially.
Jim Jones actually did a lot of good things before he went crazy, and had a good reputation in the San Fancisco area. He really did help the poor and all that good Christian shit for a long time. I had a professor in college who lost two sisters at Jonestown and had written two books on Jones. She was an expert on cults and taught classes on them (which I took). She said Jones had been a regular vistor to her family’s home in those early days. He didn’t come off as crazy or violent at the time. He came off as a nice, sincere guy who did legitinmately good work for poor people. He was a genuinely positive civic leader at the time. Sneering at people because they judged him on what he WAS at the time, and because they did not have the psychic ability to know he would someday become lost in megalomania and amphetamine psychosis is cheap and gratuitous.
I will say that Huckabee does not give the appearance of someone who is liable to spin out into a messianic psychosis (though Sarah Palin does), but I’m not sure I entirely trust the “aw shucks” demeanor either. He does have some extreme views and does not see all human beings as equal.
