During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
quote by Everett Dirksen
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Elected (live)
I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice
I wanna be elected
I'm a yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce
I wanna be elected
The kids need a savior, they don't want a fake
I wanna be elected
We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make
I wanna be elected
Elected
Elected
Respected
I wanna be selected
I never lied to you, I've always been cool
I wanna be elected
I have to get the votes, I told you about school
I wanna be elected
Elected
Elected
Hallelujah
I wanna be selected, come on
Ooh yeah
We're gonna rock this place, take the country by storm
I wanna be elected
You and me together, young and strong
I wanna be elected
Elected
Elected
Respected, selected, call collected
I wanna be elected, oh, oh, come on
This time
song performed by by Def Leppard
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This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.
quote by Peter G. Fitzgerald
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No Chance!
.
Though gifted with great eloquence.
The candidate lacks common sense
He phrased his speech in such a way,
that few in any chose to stay.
His words though chosen carefully
would never get him elected.
They didn’t understand a word he said.
He might as well have stayed in bed.
We did not know what he stood for
and saw him as a crashing bore.
A patronising upper class snob
who’d never had a proper job.
Which spoilt his opportunity
to be elected an MP
Wednesday,08 September 2010
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poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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I Am Saving My Credibility
I didn't mean to say,
What I said previously.
I meant to say something,
Entirely different.
'But...
Isn't that a contradiction? '
Not necessarily.
Not at all.
You see...
I am 'still' running as a candidate,
For public office.
I have yet to be elected.
And until that happens,
I am saving my credibility.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for. … I’m having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too permanent. After all, there’s no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you’ll have no use for after you’re elected.
quote by Gracie Allen
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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
quote by Carol Moseley Braun
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How Do We Get Their Attention July 19th
Canadians are not encouraged to notice appointees,
Secretly politically selected and have no need to please,
To the Senate, the governor general and the Supreme Court,
Their word is then law and they don't need political support.
An elected High Court would make proper Canadian decisions,
An elected Senate might even make some legal revisions,
But our elected party politicians want nothing to change,
They'll form another sub committee soon but not to rearrange.
Therefore we are helpless to bring about real political change,
Though political parties often hint that they will rearrange,
We don't have binding referendums or death with dignity,
Even the BC Supreme Court was turned down dismally.
poem by James Bredin
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I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
quote by Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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Facing The World
The process,
Incredibly! !
The perpetrators,
Incomprehensible;
But, it was indeed like the muse of your love!
However, a search committee is now needed on this case.
Getting elected,
The best candidate;
The independence,
The Roman Statues;
But always noted with the muse of your love,
However, facing the world with your works matters a lot to me! !
For, you are now guided by the rules of the laws around you.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
quote by Erskine Bowles
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A Nail In Nicolas Sarkozy's Coffin
Will French
Socialist Party
challenger
François Hollande
attain pole position
defeat as expected
Nicolas Sarkozy
president of Republic?
We've got
a strong turnout
for today's
presidential election.
We estimate
the turnout
will stand at 82%
at least by 8pm.
Stay tuned
for live updates
throughout
the evening.
The race is on
the second
the final round
of the French
presidential election;
Nicolas Sarkozy's
dwindling hopes
of being re-elected;
to the French
presidency
were rocked
by evidence;
Colonel Gaddafi
donated New Zealand
$83 laundered million
to corrupt campaign;
that first brought
paid for puppet
Nicolas Sarkozy
to presidential power?
Did you know
state French
law clearly bans
candidates;
from receiving cash
donation payments
above New Zealand
$12,450 dollars?
Gaddafi massive donation
was secretly laundered
through bank accounts
in Panama and Switzerland.
Electoral lights went out
for on take Nicolas Sarkozy
when compelling evidence
a made public document;
in Paris showed spotlight
French leader Sarkozy
Libyan dictator Gaddafi
made their illegal deal?
Gaddafi propelled
corrupt Sarkozy
to Presidential
power in 2007.
Timely released
coup de grace
evidence written
in Arabic signed;
by dictator Gaddafi's
own intelligence chief,
Mussa Kussa in 2006
refers to an agreement;
in principle to support
Nicolas Sarkozy campaign
Gaddafi's backed candidate
for presidential elections;
for a sum equivalent
to US 50 million
deal then on table
knives now in backs.
Infamous bundle
incriminating evidence
was trace leaked
by senior members;
of the National
Transitional Council,
revolt organisation
now governing Libya;
to Left-wing investigative
French news site Mediapart
as President Sarkozy faced
uphill battle to be re-elected;
a week to presidential winning post
Socialist rival Francois Hollande
is enjoying an opinion poll lead
decisive advantage ten per cent;
history repeats candidate
Francois Hollande propelled
into power by cheat sheets
supplied by his patron Libyans.
See also the poem ‘Political Wreath Thirteen Jet Black Roses'.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Stunned They Run
They've been there running,
Since he was elected.
Like plucked chickens,
Without necks.
They don't respect him.
No they don't.
Or his leadership that's best.
They've been there running,
Since he was elected.
Like plucked chickens,
Without necks.
They hate the fact he's where he's at.
And they're upset because of that.
Stunned they run,
Since he was elected.
He's no fun,
Since he was elected.
To do to get done,
Is his objective.
With more change to come.
Stunned they run,
Since he was elected.
He's no fun,
Since he was elected.
To do to get done,
Is his objective.
With more change to come.
They want reality delivered with more sweetening.
They've been there running,
Since he was elected.
Like plucked chickens,
Without necks.
They hate the fact he's where he's at.
And they're upset because of that.
They want reality delivered with more sweetening.
Stunned they run,
Since he was elected.
He's no fun,
Since he was elected.
To do to get done,
Is his objective.
With more change to come.
Stunned they run,
Since he was elected.
He's no fun,
Since he was elected.
To do to get done,
Is his objective.
With more change to come.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Candidate
Inside every teenage girl there's a fountain
Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain
Inside every mother's eyes is tommy tinkrem's bed
Inside every candidate waits a grateful dead
I make it a thing, when i'm on my own to relieve myself
I make it a thing, when i gazelle on stage to believe in myself
I make it a thing, to glance in window panes and look pleased with myself
Yeah, and pretend i'm walking home
I took it so bad, i sat in the correction room
Took me a fag, and a kick in the moon
Well, i ain't gonna suck no radar wing
Because inside this tin is tin
Would you like to techno-plate cause i'm your candidate
Oh yeah
It's a matter of life
And the way you walk, you've got a brylcream queen
It's a matter of tact
In the things you talk, that keeps his passport clean
A matter of fact
That a cock ain't a cock on a twelve inch screen
So i'll pretend i'm walking home
You don't have to scream a lot to keep an age in tune
You don't have to scream a lot to predict monsoons
You don't have to paint my contact black
Now i've hustled a pair of jeans
Do i have to give your money back when i'm the fuhrerling
I'll make you a deal
I'll say i came from from earth and my tongue is taped
I'll make you a deal
You can get your kicks on the candidate
I'll make you a deal
For your future's sake, i'm the candidate
Let's pretend we're walking home
Uh-huh, uh-huh
I'm the candidate
I'm the candidate
Vote now for the candidate
song performed by by David Bowie
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As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
quote by Mario Monti
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Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.
quote by Robert McChesney
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In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
quote by Kevin Costner
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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
quote by Ronald Reagan
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All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
quote by Mark Spitz
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There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
quote by John McCarthy
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
quote by Mark B. Cohen
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