# You as Presidential Candidate: How Well Would You Withstand Media Scrutiny?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609 "2004-07-30T17:05:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609/61 "2004-08-10T20:51:38Z")

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I’d spend too much time on the toilet.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609/62 "2004-08-10T20:58:24Z")

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> [@qts](#):
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> As long as you’re open and honest about past failings, I don’t think anyone has much to fear. As for the worth of your opinions, that’s for the electorate to decide, not the press.

Wow.

Just, “wow.”

How … uncynical.

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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609/63 "2004-08-11T05:50:50Z")

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A Crack Ho stole my credit card. (Seriously.)

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609/64 "2004-08-15T14:46:40Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Wow.
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> Just, “wow.”
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> How … uncynical.

Yes, there are people who follow the line of a particular press source, be it Fox News, or the Washington Post, but most people are thinking beings.

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**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-as-presidential-candidate-how-well-would-you-withstand-media-scrutiny/257609/65 "2004-08-15T20:55:16Z")

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So have we decided that rather than make them pick through our internet histories one click at a time, we’ll just confess everything on here as some kind of giant one-stop dirt shop that they can check anyone in?

How would I do?

Why, I’d be fine, of course. Except that I’m not American-born. If they change the rule, then everything I’ve ever done, even that time I erased Atlantis from history, could probably be spun as cutely “British”.

Also, I’m not moving to America, President or no President. So that’s another new rule they’ll have to make. I am prepared to do the job from here, though, either online or by calling in occasionally to check on things.

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