Moving from “Regular people” asking questions to running for office themselves

(Watch the online video commentary at www.ArabAmericanTVOnline.com.)

The only nice thing about Americans posing questions to the presidential candidates using their home video, as they will be doing tonight, is that they don’t have to dress up or shave. I expect if CNN invited me to their studio or brought a camera to my house, I’d probably feel obligated to put on a shirt and tie. And shave.

We can put subtle messages into the video, kind of a reverse mind-control thing …

And for some reason, in front of our own cameras, we can ask the stupid questions that people really want to know but might be afraid to ask in front of a CNN camera, or live at the debates.

Like …

Hillary: Come on … are you and your husband seeing other people?

Barack: Who the hell are you and what makes you qualified to be president of the United States?

John McCain: How come you just don’t tell the president that he is a liar and we should withdraw from Iraq?

Ron Paul: You have no chance of winning so which candidate do you think I should really support?

Fred Thompson: Is Milena Govich as hot as she looks on Law & Order?

Rudy Giuliani: You sucked as New York mayor and treated minorities like crap. Will you be the same as president?

You get my drift.

But I have a feeling those are not the kinds of questions we’re going to hear as the presidential candidates look for more gimmicks to increase public viewership.

CNN will be selecting the video submissions, and I will bet any amount of money that they’ll pick the submissions that ask the questions they’d ask if the panel questioning the candidates consisted of only reporters.

The real problem isn’t who or how we ask questions. It’s a system that makes it impossible for the average person to run for office. The only people running for president are the ones who have the experience and know how to lie, cheat and make us think they care about us. Or, have so much money they have no idea what it’s like to be a typical American.

In fact, you want to jazz up the presidential campaign season. How about selecting regular people and give them air time on the major TV networks and let them run for president? Now that would be a novel idea.

– Ray Hanania
www.hanania.com

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