Thread: Maybe Lou Will Run For President

I know we aren't suppose to put info on candidates here any longer, but thought everyone should see a clip from the Lou Dobbs show last night.

PILGRIM: Well, there's no end tonight to the speculation that our very own Lou Dobbs is considering a run for the white house. It really began picking up steam in the past week. Take a look at what influential conservative columnist Bob Novak wrote. "In the name of long time CNN commentator Lou Dobbs has entered speculation as a possible Independent candidate for president." And John Fund wrote in the "Wall Street Journal, "Lou Dobbs for president? Don't laugh. Dobbs would be a natural fit in this campaign playing the role of anchorman in the 1970s movies Network who bellowed I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." Also, New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week when asked if Lou should run, "Go for it." Well we can tell you that Lou is on what you could call a listening tour in Boston tonight. He's there after a week of canvassing the country. And all that we can only say is that Lou is still undecided. But apparently many Americans have decided already. So take a look at this. A recent AOL poll asked, do you think Dobbs will enter the race? 40% seemed to accept Lou's earlier word that he would not run but 31% said he will enter the race. 29% said they weren't sure. Now take a look at this, when asked if Lou does run, would you vote for him? 56% in an AOL online poll said yes. Our political analysts point out that's 1% more than Dwight D. Eisenhower got in his landslide victory in 2952. In our own LOU DOBBS TONIGHT poll here on Friday, 93% said they would vote for an independent president. Well, Lou will be back from his listening tour tomorrow and we'll see what he has to say so stay tuned on that.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

He has certainly got support from all of my family members.

I'll vote for him.... Most of the Republicans are idiots and the democrat's are goofy (All of them)

I will not waste my vote this election... It will go to whom I think will run this country right... not whom I am told to vote for

Anchorman of a TV show who can only talk about legal and illegal immigrants in the same breath ? Is that all the "quality" required for the chair of the US President ?

Originally Posted by legal_alien

Anchorman of a TV show who can only talk about legal and illegal immigrants in the same breath ? Is that all the "quality" required for the chair of the US President ?

Welcome Legal. Have you watched Lou before? He does not only talk about illegal immigration.

legal_alien...Hmmm legal or not legal. That is the question.

Originally Posted by legal_alien

Anchorman of a TV show who can only talk about legal and illegal immigrants in the same breath ? Is that all the "quality" required for the chair of the US President ?

Who would you propose instead. Enrique Morones? Linda Chavez? Dennis Kucinich?

Okay, I'll put my two cents in. Lou Dobbs is very knowledgable on foreign affairs, trade with other countries, educational issues, selection of judges, our tax system . . . I could go on and on. However, he is smart enough to know that we cannot fix any of these things until we boot out the illegals and give these jobs back to the Americans and get our country back on track.

Originally Posted by legal_alien

Anchorman of a TV show who can only talk about legal and illegal immigrants in the same breath ? Is that all the "quality" required for the chair of the US President ?

FYI: Lou Dobbs:

He earned a degree in economics from Harvard University, graduating in 1967.[2]

After graduating, Dobbs worked for federal anti-poverty programs in Boston and Washington, D.C. and as a cash-management specialist for Union Bank in Los Angeles. He married his high school sweetheart in 1969 and in 1970 his first son was born. Dobbs moved to Yuma, Arizona and got a job as a police and fire reporter for KBLU-AM. By the mid-1970s he was a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix, and he later joined Seattle's KING-TV. In 1979, he was contacted by a recruiter for Ted Turner, who was in the process of forming CNN.[

Lou grew up in a hard working middle class family, has not forgotten his roots and knows what its like to EARN a living.

Add this to the fact that despite not growing up with a silver spoon in his mouth he has accomplished all that he has through sweat equity. I think Lou Dobbs is plenty qualified to turn this country around and return it to the era when lawlessness, illegal alien chaos and corporate greed was not the order of the day in America.

Is booting the illegals the solution to the country's problems ? It is a widely known truth that majority of the illegals do the jobs and sometimes in less humane conditions than is written down in state laws, that the Americans will not do! I am not in favor of illegals but I am in favor of a sensible solution to the problem and booting them out is surely not sensible else our leaders would have booted them out long ago....or best they would have applied the immigration laws to bar the entry of illegals in the first place when those laws were born.

Sensible solution would be to legalize them (there could be n number of ways to legalize them which I do not want to discuss right now)...but when one talks about legalization, or the process to obtain legal immigration...has much of America thought / know how the legal immigration system works in this country ? Just to let you know, the US Government doesn't even fund the official US agency, USCIS under Homeland Security to run its day to day affairs!!! They are supposed to run the organization solely from the money that they receive via the various applications fees collected by from the applicants!!