[Jason Vines]

In the last half of my senior year of high school, my Honors Government class staged a mock presidential campaign. The class split into four groups, each of whom nominated a candidate. To help the candidates attract the votes of the class, every group devised a party name and platform, wrote a campaign speech, filmed campaign advertisments, and prepared their candidate for a debate.

I loved this assignment. In my group, I performed as the "Karl Rove": the virtuoso behind the scenes who toils to get his candidate elected. I drove the platform, wrote the speech, and directed the ads.

The candidate for my group won.

While digging through old CD's, I found the one onto which I had burned the ads for this project. Enjoy.

[Cymro]

Karl Rove should be illegal...

[Jason Vines]

Cymro, on Aug 7 2006, 06:33 PM, said:

Karl Rove should be illegal...

But without people like him, our leaders would look [even more] like backward hicks.

[Cymro]

I think seeing our leaders (as well as our potential leaders) for what they really are would be a good thing.

[Jason Vines]

Cymro, on Aug 9 2006, 04:18 PM, said:

I think seeing our leaders (as well as our potential leaders) for what they really are would be a good thing.

I don't disagree. But culling the advisors could make policy even more idiotic and chaotic than it already is. That's a scary thought!

Then again, it could allow truly visionary and imaginative leaders to rise to the top, thereby offsetting that. Hmmm.