Welcome to the U4prez.com blog
We're off to a great start. The site was being tested the last two weeks of January and we managed to attract about 80 candidates. The official launch date was just yesterday February 1st and we've already had 245 candidates create platforms.
Is that as many as are actually running from Washington? I can't remember an election where there were this many people running this early in the race.
Right now you have to run as a Democrat or Republican. We've received quite a few requests to add other political parties, and we're still considering the issue.
Some new features we'll be adding:
One on one debates, featured candidate pages, with links back to your platform so a visitor can vote for you, and more daily runoffs.
A few quick stats from our first week. (These of course include the live testing week end of January)
This is as of 10:00 AM Feb 2nd
Total candidates 243
Democrats 140
Republicans 103
Visits to profiles (pageviews) 115833
Votes cast 16842
Average vote 4.2
Average votes per member 69
Top votes:Hawk with 852 votes
Is that as many as are actually running from Washington? I can't remember an election where there were this many people running this early in the race.
Right now you have to run as a Democrat or Republican. We've received quite a few requests to add other political parties, and we're still considering the issue.
Some new features we'll be adding:
One on one debates, featured candidate pages, with links back to your platform so a visitor can vote for you, and more daily runoffs.
A few quick stats from our first week. (These of course include the live testing week end of January)
This is as of 10:00 AM Feb 2nd
Total candidates 243
Democrats 140
Republicans 103
Visits to profiles (pageviews) 115833
Votes cast 16842
Average vote 4.2
Average votes per member 69
Top votes:Hawk with 852 votes
This site is an interesting way for people to express themselves. Thanks for a fun venue.
I hope that soon you will have a "how to" section, as it took me a couple of days and a few questions to see how it works, but definetly fun.
Way to go!
Good luck to all you candidates, it is fascinating to read your thoughts.
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Watching some of the debate about Iraq on the floor of the house of Representatives and noted that the GOP was looking for ways to trash the Dem majority on how they viewed Iraq. However, let us (GOP) engage in spin without actually engaging in the substantive.
So, here is my proposal written in a series of questions: When did you (fellow Republicans)plan to seriously challenge GW Bush on his rosy scenario (when the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down) given the facts that Iraqis are standing up only to truck bomb, sniper attack, ied, suicide bomb, kidnap and torture and kill, each other? And what earthly good are coalition troops doing in the area when the so-called "elected" Iraqi government is not standing up to rein in this sort of violence? Are the terrorists going to follow us here to this country if we departed Iraq? How about our being dangerously vulnerable to terrorism because our resources and money are tied up in the futility that is Iraq? It is very much too bad that the GOP prefer the politics and trying to hamstring the Democratic majority to engaging in clear thinking about this issue. As president, I'd insist on it.
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There are two priority issues in this presidential campaign and at first blush they may seem incompatible. The first is the maintenance of national security and a strong defense posture. The second is the preservation and maintenance of citizens' fundamental rights and liberties under the constitution. The nation needs a chief executive who can accommodate these two issues successfully and simultaneously. I am such a candidate.
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I actually AM running for President. That is, I stand outside the White House about 4 days a week with campaign signs and leaflets. Google me. Plenty of pics out there. I just posted the latest platform edit to Usenet News alt.politics. I'm running by Amendment, posted below.
Hohensee or WW III
08 is too Late
At noon on the day after this Amendment is ratified the occupants of
the offices of President and Vice President shall be removed, and
replaced for the remainder of the 2005-2009 term by Richard Allen
Hohensee, President, and Senator Russell Feingold, Vice President.
This replacement and term shall be supported by a special chain of
succession composed of random drawings from all those Senators and
Representatives who voted against the joint resolution allowing the
invasion of Iraq.
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King Hohensee,
Thank you so much for showing that someone finally has the sense to expel 230+ years of nonsense known as the U.S. Constitution. It's refreshing to know that there are true patriots out there, still willing to carry forward a coup of by and for a couple of people. Long live the revolution. Be well, comrade!
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there are two groups of elite men and women in particular that most American people do not know about, but which are a clear threat and danger to the freedom of the American people. These are the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission.
Right now the United States is completely under the control of those who run these two organizations (David Rockefeller in particular). It is therefore important to understand these organizations if we wish to understand what has been taking place in the United States since the early 1900’s.
The resource material I am using that explains in depth what these two organizations are all about was written by Jack Newell and Devvy Kidd ("Why A Bankrupt America?", Project Liberty, P.O. Box 741075, Arvada, CO 80006-9075). Please allow me to share the main ideas with you.
Edward Mandell House
The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 by Edward Mandell House, who had been the chief advisor of President Woodrow Wilson. Actually, he was more than just a prominent aide of the President; he dominated the President. He was referred to as Wilson’s "alter ego" (other self), and was credited for being the most powerful individual in the United States during the Wilson Administration from 1913 until 1921.
House was a Marxist whose goal was to socialize the United States. In 1912, House wrote the book "Philip Dru: Administrator" in which he stated that he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." In this book, House laid out a plan for the conquest of America, telling how both the Democratic and Republican Parties would be controlled, and be used as instruments in the creation of a socialistic government. And he asked for the establishment of a state-controlled central bank, which were both proposed in "The Communist Manifesto". And it was in 1913, during the very first year of the House-dominated Wilson Administration, that both of these proposals became law. The Federal Reserve Act was passed, which brought into power a private central bank to create the money of the United States, taking this power away from the united States Congress. And the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, the graduated income tax as proposed by Karl Marx, was also ratified.
The Council on Foreign Relations
In 1921, House and his friends formed the Council on Foreign Relations whose purpose right from its conception was to destroy the freedom and independence of the United States, and to lead the country into a one-world government.
Right from its beginning, in 1921, the CFR began to attract men of power and influence. In the late 1920’s, important financing for the CFR came from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. In 1940, at the invitation of President Roosevelt, members of the CFR gained domination over the State Department, and they have maintained this domination ever since.
Its intentions
The late Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton’s m
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SYMPATHY FOR LIBBY IS NOT A POSSIBILITY
Last Month, White House Spokesperson Dana Perino on the sentence to Lewis Libby was quoted as saying President Bush "felt terrible for the family." So, Yesterday President Bush commuted Mr Libby's prison term.
Should we feel terrible because Libby had the right to a fair trial, was innocent until proven guilty, had legal representation (which would have been provided if he couldn't afford it), the right to appeal or the possibility of a Presidential pardon?
Should we feel terrible because he didn't out a CIA operative or because he got caught lying to the Grand Jury?
I feel bad for Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife because he wrote (the right of Free Speech) an op-ed in the New York Times investigating whether Iraq attempted to purchase or purchased yellowcake from Niger in the late 1990s and accused the administration of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat" in order to justify war. Not only has his reputation been tarnished but Valerie (Plane) Wilson has been revealed as a CIA operative thanks to Deputy Chief of Staff (Richard Armitage) to the Vice President.
I feel terrible for every American family who has lost a loved one in the war in Iraq, every servicemen who has been injured in the war and those who have not received the needed medical attention whether physical or mental since returning home.
Therefore, feeling terrible for the family of Lewis Libby is just not in my realm of possibilities.
George Ferdinand
Brownstown, Michigan
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