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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: veritas on September 17, 2014, 06:40:15 PM
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Integrity Disqualifies Sanders for White House
BY ANDY BOROWITZ
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s potential bid for the 2016 Presidency was declared over, on Monday, before it even began, because of a key feature of the American political system that makes a person with integrity ineligible for the White House.
According to some experts, the electoral system has developed a number of safeguards over the past few decades to prevent someone with independence and backbone from occupying the Presidency.
“Bernie Sanders’s failure to become a member of either major political party excludes him from the network of cronyism and backroom deals required under our system to be elected,” said Davis Logsdon, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “Though that failure alone would disqualify Sanders, the fact that he is not beholden to a major corporate interest or investment bank would also make him ineligible.”
Because of his ineligibility, Logsdon said, the Vermont Senator would be unable to fund-raise the one billion dollars required under the current system to run for President. “The best source of a billion dollars is billionaires, and Sanders has alienated them,” he said. “Clearly he didn’t think this through.”
Logsdon said that Sanders might persist in his quest for the White House despite his ineligibility but that such an effort would be doomed to fail. “Our political system has been refined over the years specifically to keep people like Bernie Sanders out of the White House,” he said. “The system works.”
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/integrity-disqualifies-sanders-white-house
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Yep. You need AT LEAST a billion dollars to run for president.
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You have to be a good crook to run for president in USA. Independent candidates are not good crooks.
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Yes. You need to have sugardaddies (billionaires) who can pimp you to their heart's content. In the end it might be worth it, not only to make a difference, but to taste power then have the humanity to let it go.
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I think about money all the time. I only have one goal. To be a self-made billionaire.
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