Senator Mellencamp?

[Baill Inneraora]

How does that sound?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/18/opinion/main6219509.shtml

 

[Facetious]

How does that sound?

Little Pink houses to all, no matter if they can afford them or not.

 

[Facial_King]

Sounds like a great belated response to Reagan and all of his slavish devotees.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

He could get enough down state votes to win!

 

[PirateKing]

Sounds interesting. I need a politician that won't drive me crazy.
....ok, i admit that was just bad. although It was better than the play on Jack & Diane that i was gonna use. The point is I know his songs.

 

[Will E Worm]

It sounds horrible.

Stick to music. Better yet, retire. :tongue:

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

It doesn't sound any dumber than Senator Sonny Bono, Governor Schwarzenegger, Senator
Franken, Mayor Eastwood etc. etc.

 

[Jagger69]

Sounds interesting. I need a politician that won't drive me crazy.
....ok, i admit that was just bad. although It was better than the play on Jack & Diane that i was gonna use. The point is I know his songs.

Even though he's just a pop singer and can play guitar, I'll check it out. You never know, he might go all the way to Washington.

 

[Rey C.]

I've always liked his music. But what are some of his specific ideas on how to address these problems? But I have no problem with him being a musician. Maybe we need more musicians in Congress and fewer lawyers.

 

[ThatRedWing]

Coming soon from (insert porn company): A Couger In The Senate.

Hey they have to get their ideas somewhere.

 

[Shadowslayer77]

Well I don't know how I feel until I know his politics better. I get the impression that he would fight hard for his those that elected him. It might be good if he could change some things... most likely though he would change.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

If you don't know his politics, you don't know much about him or his music.

 

[Shadowslayer77]

If you don't know his politics, you don't know much about him or his music.

For his recent music (Last 8 years) No I don't. Yes those are his views and give an idea of what he be like. However poltics are alot different.
Look at say Hillary Clinton. Fairly middle of the road if you ask me. Trys for the presidental nom and what did she ****** first. Yup video games. I know its an easy target but that the kind of thing I need to know about him. However not my concern wouldn't be my senator so I can't vote for him if I wanted to.

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Bruce could probably win NJ, why not John in IN? Dont know his views overall, but it would be interesting to say the least.

 

[Red Spyder]

I've always liked his music. But what are some of his specific ideas on how to address these problems? But I have no problem with him being a musician. Maybe we need more musicians in Congress and fewer lawyers.

I have to agree with that quote... more musicians and more doctors, more engineers, more economists (to help fix the economy) who are more akin to Adam Smith than Karl Marx (after all, this is America, not the freaking Soviet Union), more industrialists, more *************** officers, more military people, more accountants, more teachers, more businesspeople, more architects, more regular people, you know, more people who actually make the country work, and less career politicians and lawyers (just keep a couple lawyers around just in case)

I liked what Justice Scalia had to say about lawyers in this interview:
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/la...day-were-wasting-some-of-of-best-minds-o.html

The WSJ Law Blog got its hands on the interview transcripts ahead of air time and offered this snip from the Scalia interview. Justice Scalia, once very reluctant to sit before a camera for interviews, appears to have mellowed some. In response to a question about the “quality of counsel” who appear before the court, Justice Scalia responds:

Well, you know, two chiefs ago, Chief Justice Burger, used to complain about the low quality of counsel. I used to have just the opposite reaction. I used to be disappointed that so many of the best minds in the country were being devoted to this enterprise.

I mean there’d be a, you know, a defense or public defender from Podunk, you know, and this woman is really brilliant, you know. Why isn’t she out inventing the automobile or, you know, doing something productive for this society?

I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to produce and to go on with their lives efficiently and in an atmosphere of freedom. That’s important, but it doesn’t put food on the table and there have to be other people who are doing that. And I worry that we are devoting too many of our very best minds to this enterprise.

And they appear here in the Court, I mean, even the ones who will only argue here once and will never come again. I’m usually impressed with how good they are. Sometimes you get one who’s not so good. But, no, by and large I don’t have any complaint about the quality of counsel, except maybe we’re wasting some of our best minds.

 

[titsrock]

I have to agree with that quote... more musicians and more doctors, more engineers, more economists (to help fix the economy) who are more akin to Adam Smith than Karl Marx (after all, this is America, not the freaking Soviet Union), more industrialists, more *************** officers, more military people, more accountants, more teachers, more businesspeople, more architects, more regular people, you know, more people who actually make the country work, and less career politicians and lawyers (just keep a couple lawyers around just in case)

Aren't we a country already made up of people like this :dunno: We have engineers, military, accountants, teachers, etc. We just have too many of these people out of work, at the moment. If we don't have people doing these jobs now or seeking training for these jobs, exactly what are Americans doing these days?

Seriously. Where would we go, in America, to find either someone who has read Adam Smith or someone who is a true Marxist?

 

[Red Spyder]

1. Aren't we a country already made up of people like this :dunno: We have engineers, military, accountants, teachers, etc. We just have too many of these people out of work, at the moment. If we don't have people doing these jobs now or seeking training for these jobs, exactly what are Americans doing these days?

2. Seriously. Where would we go, in America, to find either someone who has read Adam Smith or someone who is a true Marxist?

1. Yes, we are a country of people like that. Many of them are out of work at this time. So, maybe we should send some of them, via the upcominig November elections, to work in Washington as legislators for the time being since they know what it is to have to live with any new laws and regulations that are ******, unlike the career politicians who don't know or care what that is since they either find a way to exempt themselves or have too much money to care about the cost of new regulations for regular people. They don't have money to run? That's why there's primary elections so the major two parties can chose a candidate and then the party has to provide at least a few campaign funds. If said candidate can run an effective campaign with little funds...that candidate would be one economic genious who should become president ASAP!!!

2. Where can we find someone here in America who has read Adam Smith? I doubt there's anyone who has been in an American public school who has done so in the last 40 years. Not even I have read up on Smith that much, just a little during economics class back in college and that was very rudimentary. Where can we find someone here in America who is a true Marxist? I don't know, hmm, let me think about it...oh, wait, Berkley? There's probably a guy there from what I've heard. (I was going to say in the oval office but that would open up a huge can of worms)

 

[D-rock]

After listening to all those stupid, irritating, intelligence insulting "This is My Country" Chevy commercials a few years back I don't think I could ever like Mellencamp again.

 

[Rey C.]

I just heard that he and his wife are getting a divorce. Jack & Diane didn't make it.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

If he can't keep his marriage together how can we count on him being a senator!?