Yeah but if it's not instructive how is it instructive when Republican talk at each other and not with each other. Liberal "Peacenicks" and conservative Evangelicals who are supposed to both take Jesus as a role model, are fiercely partisan. That is the really silly idea and the not instructive thing.
On Sep 8, 9:47 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not instructive at all. In fact, reading this was a stupid waste of time. > A vote for McCain WILL (unfortunately) move the country to the center <DUH> > while a vote for Nobama will move the country so far to the left we may > never see daylight again Socrates. "Change the constitution to fix partisan > politics" and you don't see a vicious cycle there do you? ROFLMAO!! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "socrtwo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PoliticalForum" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:35 AM > Subject: Make Co-Presidents > > With are country mired in partisan politics at a critical juncture in > its history and the history of the world, it is instructive to look at > the Roman Republic's government format. > Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_republic. > > They had co-regents instead of presidents. There were two coregents > who ruled for a year with each ruling for one month at a time then > switching to the other. Co-regents could not be regents again for 10 > years. > > So why don't change the constitution to fix partisanship. The current > Democratic and Republican nominees would then become co-regents for 2 > year, perhaps switching off regentship every 2 months. This would: > > * Solve McCain's age issue, because he wouldn't be president after 2 > years. > * Palin would at most be president for 2 years. > * If the co-presidents/regents have the interest of the US in imnd and > not their own party's , they would not reverse each other's decision > as much and would move to the center. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
