Try a Great Game

Here is the game.  You pick the President of The United States for 2016 and beyond.  There is no game board, no video and you won’t even need your frickin cell phone.  Yes, I know, your left hand and your brain will not work properly without the cell there, but try the strange old world of no cell phone, if only for a few minutes.

Here is a sample:  “If I could choose any living American to become President, in the next election, it would be Bill Gates.”  Next, you have to support your choice with 5 or more reasons.

1.     1. The man is well respected and known, the world over.  His voice and his ideas will be listened to and respected by the voters and their representatives.  He would rule the independent vote and earn many votes from both Democrats and Republicans.  He has massive name recognition, without campaign spending and the name recognition is positive.

2.     2. He has no allegiance to either political party and will not be dictated to by them.  I don’t believe that either party can afford to buy him.  I believe that he will weigh each proposal before him on its own merits.  That would be a major change in our political system.  Our elected legislators may like observing this phenomenon so much that they may step back from the system and outlaw political parties.  This act would free these alpha dogs from the short choke chains that their party has them on.

3.    3.  Bill is smart.  His SATs were in the high 1500s and he attended Harvard, where he dropped out as soon as he realized that his time could be spent more effectively in industry than in studying industry.  It could not hurt our nation to have a smart person hold the office of President.  I believe that a Bill Gates would not lead this nation into an unnecessary war, like the one we are presently removing ourselves from.  He would have more respect for the intelligence of the people of Our Nation.

4.     4. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a place where the Gates family presently puts its money and its mind.  It is a force for advancing health and education, the World over.  The old cliché that “A rising tide raises all boats” could not be truer and Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are leaders of this concept on our planet.

 

5.     5.  Bill Gates is recognized among industrial giants as a giant among them.  When he speaks in front of TED.com, usually on the subject of future education or carbon’s effects on our environment, the “scarecrows” (those who are out standing in their fields) listen with respect.

The only problem I can see in getting Bill to take this step and run for office, is that he would have to give up the good life that he has now and move into a non-functioning neighborhood.  Perhaps he would enjoy the challenge.

Comments are welcome, Old Buz