Presidential Election! 2008!

[pokemasterfrank]

OMG its FRANK! Come lets leave this politics topic and go back to RPG ^v^ *drags frank kicking and screaming back to the room of RPG so he can roleplay with her again*
I missed you x.x and Im glad you dont like Kerry either XD

And yeah I know that, Lincoln was born poor as dirt and became pres. But these dont exactly mean that everyone who comes from a job line separate from Politics is going to do just fine, as in just because those presidents did fine despite their respecive backgrounds doesnt mean I should give Jon Stewart my full support if hell ever froze over and he was nominated. I dont think hed win for the sole reason that people cant take him seriously.

But yeah come back to RPG, I missed RPing with you ;.;

Yeah, I don't like Kerry...but I don't really like Bush either :x I think he means well...he thinks he's doing the right thing...well...anyway...

I was just making that note because you said Stewart couldn't do it because he was a comedian in your original post. Of course he's not guarenteed to do a good job, but being prejudice just because of what he did before doesn't really work.

Well, that's an interesting point about taking a comedian seriously. It is a little bit different than being an actor, being comedians do nothing but make jokes (at least in front of the public eye), while actors sometimes at least act serious. That might be a potential problem beyond what Reagan experienced.

Then again, I read a rather frightening study recently that compared The Daily Show with news broadcasts on CNN, CBS, Fox News, and a few other stations. Stewart's program was found to have every bit as much political content as the rest of them - that is, it was just as informative as the traditional news programs. I'm not sure whether that says more about The Daily Show or about the state of news today.

It's not frightening at all. Those news shows are doing what they do for the ratings. They want people to watch it - same goal as The Daily Show.

In my personal opinion, it'd be interesting to see how the US would be run under someone like John Stewart

[mr_pikachu]

Well, I merely mean that it's frightening when you consider that most of the voting country relies heavily on news networks to make political decisions. The fact that they have as much news value as a comedy routine is a little worrisome to me.

...Then again, I can't say it goes against any of the observations I've made in this regard over the last few years...