Weird Campaign Promises
Latest about.com article: A Brief History of Weird Campaign Promises.
Example promises include:
Example promises include:
- The elimination of poverty, after 10 pm. (Ferdinand Lop, 1940s)
- Pass a law to "keep them 'vine-ripened' stickers off of them mushy green tomatoes." (Connie Watts, 1960)
- Put joggers to good social use by forcing them to power treadmills to generate electricity. (Screaming Lord Sutch)
- Change the name of Aspen to "Fat City." (Hunter S. Thompson, 1970)
- Lose 50 pounds. (Adeline J. Geo-Karis, 1986)
Comments
Vermin Supreme is running this year -- he came in fourth in the NH Democratic Primary. Your article left out a few important promises: he's going to time travel and kill the unborn baby Hitler, and he's going to harness the power of zombies to generate electricity by putting them on giant hamster wheels and dangling brains in front of them. He says he paved the way for Donald Trump by bringing ridiculousness to politics.
Posted by ges on 03/18/16 at 04:25 PM
Ah, we'll never see the likes of HST again. Sometimes I wonder what he would make of this election cycle. "When the going get weird, the weird turn pro."
I like Mr. Caruba's attitude. That sounds much like the early politicians in U.S. history - work in elected office for one or two terms and then return home.
I like Mr. Caruba's attitude. That sounds much like the early politicians in U.S. history - work in elected office for one or two terms and then return home.
Posted by KDP on 03/18/16 at 05:47 PM
A much shorter list is one of campaign promises actually kept. Gonna vote Expat since you still have citizenship here ?
Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 03/18/16 at 08:50 PM
@KDP: "then return home" - That's the way it was designed.
@BD: No use. Most Expats are disenfranchised as we don't have a US address, hence, no electors to do our bidding. Then, even those of us who do have US addresses and do cast a ballet they go into a 'box' along with all the other mail-ins and aren't counted unless their numbers exceed the difference between #1 and #2. Then among those that are counted the electors do not, by law, have to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote. So, no.
@BD: No use. Most Expats are disenfranchised as we don't have a US address, hence, no electors to do our bidding. Then, even those of us who do have US addresses and do cast a ballet they go into a 'box' along with all the other mail-ins and aren't counted unless their numbers exceed the difference between #1 and #2. Then among those that are counted the electors do not, by law, have to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote. So, no.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/19/16 at 12:54 AM
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