The Presidency

Well, the debate about the Supreme Court nominee Judge Roberts is heating up, so I figured that I should talk about politics.

This is my idea on how to elect the next president, and every president thereafter. Personally, I am not a big fan of politics. As a matter of fact, you could say that I hate politics and everything about it. From the crooked campaign finances to the false promises, to the symbolic act of voting, the whole thing makes me physically sick when someone tries to rope me into a political conversation.

So, here's my plan...

Enough with all this campaigning, the voting, and the electoral college. What this country needs is a Presidential Jeopardy Tournament of Champions.

Basically, it works out like this. Everyone can try out, but only say that top 500 make it onto the show. You run the show on tv for four years, and at the end of those 4 years, on election night, you have arguably the three smartest people in the country, playing Jeopardy in a vie for the presidency.

I don't see how this could possibly backfire. We would be sure to have a leader that would be educated, passionate (in order to learn all that stuff, you'd have to be), and hardworking. Notice that I didn't mention things like loyal, honest, open-minded. We're picking from our own flock here, so let's be realistic about the qualities our society embodies.

And if you're worried that some of the smartest people in our country are and always have been serial killers, maniacs with fantasies of world domination, and Mormons, don't worry, because I have another plan. An amendment to the Constitution which states:

If a 2/3 majority of Americans agree on a referendum ballot that the president is not performing his/her job to expectations, the president shall be taken into town square, shot in the head, and the person who placed second in the tournament shall take his place. (same rule also applies if the president dies of his own volition)

So that's my plan... Hey, I wouldn't mind having 2 wives...*Homer*: Chop, chop, dig, dig..

Ken Jennings in '08