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11-26-2007, 04:06 PM
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Re: Should presidential campaign promises be enforceable?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] They are. They're enforceable every four years. Ask Bush Sr. [/ QUOTE ] This is the correct answer. Anyone who doesn't take campaign rhetoric with a gigantic grain of salt is a fool. Even those things that a candidate genuinely believes and genuinely wants to do, some are simply out of their control and some the facts and circumstances change. [/ QUOTE ] Sounds like an awesome system you've got cooking there. [/ QUOTE ] Are you proposing something where a candidate can't take into account changing circumstances or one where president's are given more power so that they can fulfill their promises? [/ QUOTE ] Or, the ever popular third option: less promises. When I promise someone I will do something, I dont sit around and fret about how I've just limited myself to take future information into account or how I will need to usurp greater power (maybe pray or roll around in radioactive sludge?) in order to follow through. I simply make promises I know I can keep. Sometimes its even difficult to keep them. There might even be more than 3 options, my imagination isnt that great, but there are certainly more than the dichotomous choice you've laid out here. 
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#22
11-26-2007, 04:24 PM
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Re: Should presidential campaign promises be enforceable?
What are campaign promises have been made in speech this year? During all the debates I have watched nothing has been promise, just a lot of politicians saying they will do their best to accomplish X or Y.
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#24
11-27-2007, 06:00 AM
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Re: Should presidential campaign promises be enforceable?
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] They are. They're enforceable every four years. Ask Bush Sr. [/ QUOTE ] This is the correct answer. Anyone who doesn't take campaign rhetoric with a gigantic grain of salt is a fool. Even those things that a candidate genuinely believes and genuinely wants to do, some are simply out of their control and some the facts and circumstances change. [/ QUOTE ] Sounds like an awesome system you've got cooking there. [/ QUOTE ] Are you proposing something where a candidate can't take into account changing circumstances or one where president's are given more power so that they can fulfill their promises? [/ QUOTE ] How about something where movie stars cocaine addict frat boys and career politicians don't get the power to make life or death decisions for millions or billions of people?
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#25
11-28-2007, 12:25 AM
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Re: Should presidential campaign promises be enforceable?
Not in the sense that people can sue the president in court for breach of contract. Global and national circumstances change. Those changes might require a leader who genuinely wanted to do one thing to end up doing another.
However, the free press has the job to shine a light on hypocrisy. And the electorate has the job to decide if any breach of promises are sufficiently unjustifiable to warrant voting for someone else in the next election.
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