The "Excel for President" Thread

[Excel]

Now is the Time for Greatness

Campaign "teaser" posters

Brief Bio and Intro speech-

Well I thought I would start off by letting you guys get to know a bit more about me. I was born on July 4th, 1984 to a single mother. I did not know my birth father goowing up. When I was 2 my Mother met a great man with a good job and we move to the upper middle class town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts where I would grow up.I have 2 younger brothers. In school I did ok. I graduated High School with a 3.0 on the dot but never really pushed myself accademically. I was a highly competitive athlete who letted in football 3 years (including 2 as an all league player) where we won 2 Super Bowl titles (state title for Massachusetts), 2 years in basketbal, and 3 years in lacrosse. I was due to play football for at prep school for a 5th year before attempting to transfer to a better academic school, however a broken leg in the spring of my senior year during a LaCrosse game ended those dreams. I attended Umass for 3 years where I majored in marketing before leaving to pursue my current career, which has been extremely profitable, and here I am, less than a month away from my 24th birthday. I've been married for 8 months and my wife is currently 7 months pregnant

I am well aware of all the damage that has been done these past 8 years, and all the problems that lie ahead. I am aware that our economy, to say the least, has problems. The world does not have the greatest views or opinions of us. Our people are hurting, our planet is suffering, and we can no longer afford to sit back and watch as more and more houses are forclosed on; more and more jobs are cut, lost, or sent abroad; the treasury is destroyed; private business's keep filing bankruptcy; war veterans have no rights. We can no longer sit back and watch as other very real threats get more powerful while we sit back and ignore them. Gas prices contiue to sky rocket, healthcare is becoming harder and harder to get.

You know, it kind of funny, I was a Boston Red Sox game in last summer and in the row infront of me, there was a little girl. She musta been 4-5 years, no more, in a little pink Manny Ramirez shirt. As the game went along and I chatted with her parents, I discovered they had driven down from Maine, and they talked about how much they had spent on gas to come down there. Well it turns out, they did not have very much money. They were at the game because a friend had a season tickets. It turns out, this mans job was sent overseas. Their house had been forclosed on. This young, good natured family had no where to live. And I cannot describe the enormous sense...sorrow...that I was over come with talking to them. They were the best kind of people you could find. Back to the little girl, even at 5, she was clearly very smart. She knew her family was having tough times. She said to me, "But how come, if people are in trouble, people don't always help them?". It hit me than. This little girl, only 5 years old, gets it.

It's the mindset that when someone is down, you dont turn the other way. Its the mind set of "others first". If everybody is weatching out for eacho0ther, there is no need to watch out for yourself. This family was a defining example of what has happened to many families like the, and its sickening. It shouldnt be tolerated. We should not be comfortable sitting back and letting homes be forclosed on, people losing jobs, because all of those are just numbers. It is not until you see the effect it has on the people themselves or the kind of people they are that you can really geta grasp of how devestating this plague is. It is not a medicaol plague, but a finanicial one.

This little 5 year old girl said one sentnence, and I knew I had to do somerthing. It was that moment where I realized it was up to me to try and make the difference. I realized then - there is no more time to watch families like this struggle financially, they deserve the very best oppritunities this great nation has to offer - there is no more time to allow seemingly endless spending on an onpopular and now unjustified war - there is no more time avoid responsibility for our problems andf in term not get anything accomplished - there is no more time to watch as our true enimies grow stronger and we sit back and do nothing - there is no more time to let our own people suffer. No more. Enough. I am sick of it. I am sick of turning on the news and seeing how many people have been hurt in Iraq. I am sick and tired of hearing about out of control lunatics going on rampages. I am sick of the violence, I am sick of bad choices, I am sick of all of it. It all needs to CHANGE.

There is no more time for of this nonsense that we have had to suffer through the past 8 years. It is our job to move forward with the best and brightest of dreams and ambitions; it is our job to restore our credibility, to help spread peace across the world, to put an end violence and terrorism, to save our crashign economy, because now is not the time for the nonsense, silly season politics we have had in the past.

Now is the time for greatness, for our country to live up to it's promise of being the world greatest - now is the time for our country to begin taking care of every individual who has the gifty of being able to say " I am an United States Citizen" - now is the time for us to put aside pety differences with foreign countries and leaders and face the challnges ahead not alone but together - now is the time we stop thinking of yourselves and start thinking of eachother, stop thinking of you or me and start thinking of us.

Now is the time we can direct this country in the direction to ensure the best future for our children, their children; for everybody, and it starts today, right here, with all of you.

Godspeed to the fellow candidates, I will see you in July!

Be sure to vote "Excel" on July 10th!

 

[Tag279]

Excel, I like your style

 

[Kaleb]

I feel like I can relate to you.

 

[Excel]

Of course you can, I am the peoples candidate! I will fight for every want and desire the public has, and will not quit that fight until I succeed

 

[Excel]

Some prelim advertising campaign matiriels have been added to the front post...

 

[Excel]

EXCEL on the issues

1. Energy & Public Transportation
2. Environment
3. Economiy
4. War in Iraq
5. Education
6. Foreign Policy
7. Homeland Security
8. Immigration
9. Technology
10. Space Programs

Energy and Public Transportation

So...the 1st one of the day is New Energy. Under my administration, there would be a new government program ala Nasa called "National Energy Agency". Here, at NEA, you would have the world's brightest working around the clock to find new forms of energy. Nuclear energy, cellulosic ethonal, and many others would be expanded and researched. With a standard 35% requirement of renewable energy and 100% requirement of clean energy, NEA woudl certainly be an extremely useful program for the country. The top priority of NEA would be to find a suitable subsitute for gasoline in already existing cars.

Oil itself will not go down in value. I would have us join China on the Gulf of Mexico and in the fields of the northern United States. NEA would be in charge of finding the wells, preserving any wild life, and the clean up. However, we do not need to increase our supply of oil as much we need to decrease our dependency on it. That said, the more oil the better. We would drill for our own oil initially to stockpile and or sell overseas for profits.

Thanks to NEA, the United States would be leading the world into a more energy efficent future

Public Transportation

This would be the 2nd phase in elimination costly gas purchases. Public transportation must be used to a greater and more effective extent. A prime example would Boston's subway T train's. We need more public transportation everywhere, and with NEA's help, we'll be able to make the buses or trains we build much more energy efficent.

 

[Marx]

I must say that I am slightly concerned by the statement that you made regarding oil companies and record profits. I personally don't see why big oil should not have to answer for the fleecing of the American public...as you have claimed in Official Hype '08 Election thread.

 

[Excel]

Tightening restrictions is one thing on the oil companies; its another to tell them how much they can sell their product for.

 

[Tag279]

Tightening restrictions is one thing on the oil companies; its another to tell them how much they can sell their product for.

Excel, I see the rationale; outside of price capping whait restrictions could you, as President, employ to bring the price of fuel down.

 

[Excel]

Excel, I see the rationale; outside of price capping whait restrictions could you, as President, employ to bring the price of fuel down.

There would be 2 goals to bring fuel down.

1. Bring the Gas prices down on their own

This can only happen one way -get more gas.

Its supply and demand. When we get a greater supply of gas, demand will be lower and the prices will drop. My proposal-

1. 2008-2010, continue purchasing same amount of oil from middle east as we currently do but set to match 15% of it from our own stockpiles, thus increasing our overall total of gas in the market by 15%. Begin drilling for oil off the gulf coast, in the northern U.S., and in Alaska.

2. 2010-2012- oil we have been drilling for begins to be released in US. Replenish stockpiles while begining to cut down on the amount we spend in the middle east. Overall amount of oil in the market remains the same.

2012-onward: cut off middle east completely and exist on our own fuel we've be endrilling for. Thanks NEA's requirements, we will need roughly 45% less oil than we do now.

So you see, with more oil in the market, the prices will drop.

2. Get more out of the gas - this is the biggie

After all, people wont mind paying $4 dollars a gallon if they get more out of it. The average miles per gallon in America for a car is 27. That would mean that each mile you drive costs you roughly 15 cents. Hybrid's, on the other hand, get an average of 47 miles per gallon, or each mile costs roughly 8.5 cents. A bit more math- for the average car, driving 47 miles costs about 7 dollars. Its like this say- say you put on 10,000 miles on your car in a year.

For a standard car, thats roughly $1,500 dollars worth of gasoline.
For a hybrid, thats only $800. 10,000 miles on $800 for a normal, 27 mpg, is equivalent to paying $2.16 per gallon, because 10,000 miles on 27 mpg = 370 gallons, and $800 (what a hybrid user pays for every 10k miles at $4 bucks a gallon) divided by 370 gallons is 2.16.

You see, our goal should not so much be to bring down gas prices, but to get more out of the gas so we use it less. This is what we must do. The NEA (a test for every new model by the National Energy Agency, a new government branch under my administartion ala NASA) test would have a standard requirement of 45 mpg on all cars (meaning every new car sold by 2012 would be required to fit this) therefore even if gas were to say hit $5 or $6 dollars by then, it would be like paying $3.50 now, just like Jmans cap, except we would not risk destroying the Oil Companies (and our economy).

However, it is my conclusion that, the combo of bringing gas prices down on our own (to my estimates around $3.30 a gallon) with the combo of the 45 mpg requirement to pass the NEA test and therefore be for sale in the U.S. would save the average American $767 dollars for every 10k miles they drive, because 10k miles at $3.30 a gallon on an engine that gets 45 mph is $733 for every 10,000 miles, $767 less than the 1500 the average consumer currently plays.

NEA would be responsible for working with car companys to revolutionize engines to be more energy efficient. The Dems bill that was blocked called for 35 mpg by 2020; with NEA 45 mpg by 2012 is within reach. We're a very smart species; car companies desperate to sell their product combined with the work of NEA could defiently find a way to do this for most cars, and the ones that cannot will not be sold.

As far as oil company restrictions, that would be all tax's. I would drasticaly cut down the 17 billion in tax breaks the largest oil companys are set to recieve, while upping the tax they pay us for selling the oil here. Those sell oil at higher proces- $3.75 or over - will face by far the harshest taxes. It would be set up so oil companies recieve maximum profits at around $3.40 and it woud be effective immeadietly.

So to sum up, for the time being prices will drop, and when they go back up, we will be using far less gas, so the total we pay will be less as well.

 

[Matt]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a Democratic candidate has two Republicans (out of three presidents) in his avatar?

 

[Excel]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a Democratic candidate has two Republicans (out of three presidents) in his avatar?

Great Presidents are not limited to one party. I am not THAT stubborn/ignorant

 

[Matt]

Great presidents can also spell stubborn.

 

[Excel]

Great presidents can also spell stubborn.

You got me

 

[The Senator]

There is nothing more arrogant than comparing oneself to a former president...

 

[Marx]

Great presidents can also spell stubborn.

You got me

 

[Kaleb]

Im voting for Excel cause I know my childrens future will be safe in his hands

 

[Excel]

There is nothing more arrogant than comparing oneself to a former president...

I am not arrogant at all. I am as humble as can be while still be outgoing and confident. I'll openly admitt mistakes, laugh at myself, but I'll always remain cool and its quite hard to get me angry. But its all good

 

[Excel]

Im voting for Excel cause I know my childrens future will be safe in his hands

Word

 

[Kaleb]

Word

another reason to vote for him, he just said ''word'', which means he is cool , he is going to be a peoples president and not a fake one that says ''who let the dogs out'' to a group of black kids.

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

Bumpage. Great stuff here Excel.

 

[kal-el2006]

Great stuff indeed -fist bump Excel-

 

[deathfromabove]

why should i get behind your energy policy when you can't spell half of it?

what exactly i going on here anyway?

 

[The Senator]

why should i get behind your energy policy when you can't spell half of it?

Sorry, that actually made me laugh out loud...

 

[Excel]

why should i get behind your energy policy when you can't spell half of it?

because typos dont mean it wont work...