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Announcing my Candidacy for President of the United States in 2012

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Mark A. Goldman
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A4.   I need to do it this way.   I don't want to be in the news, raise money, or be on TV... at least not yet.   Why?   I am not well known enough to raise the amount of money it would take to be an independent candidate and still compete on an equal footing with the major party candidates.   And if I were in the news, no mainstream pundit would speak of me favorably or even consider me to be a viable candidate.   In fact, they would do everything possible to make sure I am not taken seriously.     I know what I'm talking about in this regard.   Maybe it's not fair, but that's how it is.

The only way my strategy can work is if you decide to accept my leadership in conducting this campaign.   Here's the first part of my strategy for building a better America: 

   1)   You need to decide that on election day, no matter what, you will vote for the person you believe, if elected, would make the best president of those running; 

   2) You need to communicate to others that you have decided, that on election day you will vote for the person you believe, if elected, would be the best president among those running, regardless of who you think will win; 

   3) And please tell them, that I will be one of the candidates they can consider before making their final choice; and 

   4) Please send them a link to my web site (this web page will do) so they can begin to do their own research to see if they too would be willing to help execute this strategy as I've outlined it.

If you need to get a better sense of who I am... what I look like, how I speak in public, that will come in time.  I want to win this election without doing anything to raise money.  If we can do that, this country will be transformed even before I take the oath of office.  The only real power a president has, comes from you, but that's another story.  Money is not speech or votes.  You can speak and vote without spending money. 

By executing this strategy the way I've outlined it, there will be no need for people to ask for money, hold protest signs, or march in the streets in order to get those in office to act like decent human beings. 

And it won't be necessary for citizens to put up yard signs either, or any of the other ways politicians waste money and people's time trying to get themselves elected, most of whom are totally unqualified for the offices they want to hold.  

If the people we elected to office were qualified, we'd have a government that works. It's not that difficult to understand.  We need people who are able to keep their integrity in tact and stay loyal to you rather than to their campaign contributors.  Money has a funny affect on people. 

What I am asking citizens to do is think for themselves, act like adults, have some integrity and be conscientious about choosing the best people available for the jobs that need to be filled.  Honorable people can make government work.  There are many competent, wonderful people in America who don't participate in politics because it's become a dirty, stupid business... and it doesn't have to be that way.  We need qualified, honorable people in politics and we need to develop a process that encourages our best men and women to seek these critical jobs that require a high level of competence and integrity.  

Our government is not too big, but it is too corrupted.

In this campaign you will have the opportunity to learn at least as much about me and how I would likely conduct myself in office as you will learn about the other candidates whose faces you will have to watch and listen to on TV for weeks or months on end, not to say how many pundits and pollsters you will have to endure who will, more often than not, have little to say that will be worth hearing.  

Politics in this country is now, for the most part, an exercise in distributing disinformation to unsuspecting citizens who are being set up to be fleeced.  That's what you get when politicians tell you what they think you want to hear or what they want you to believe, rather than what you need to know.  And let's face it, to a large extent, it's your own fault... because you never really bothered to understand what your job is in all of this.  It doesn't take a genius to understand... that you can't change something that's broken into something that works if you don't know what you've got in the first place? 

Anyway I don't think my campaign will be more of the same.  Stand with me so I can stand with you.  Get on this peace train...  Be the little engine that could.  This time for real.  

Q5.   I still don't get it.  I think you're just another nutcase.  There's no way in hell that you will ever win this election.  So why should I spend one more minute listening to or thinking about you?  

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Mark A. Goldman is an author, financial planner and was a candidate for president of the United States in 2008 and 2012. His new book called "Starting Over" is available for download free as a pdf file at this address: (more...)
 

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