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08/06/2006 01:35:58 AM · #1 |
Whatever you do, just don't make any promises you can't keep. Be realistic with your goals/expected outcomes.
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08/02/2006 11:41:38 PM · #2 |
LOL :) put me down for 500!
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08/02/2006 11:38:48 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by crazychick3:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
When is this election anyway? |
when school starts? |
Cool. We'll have time to order the TShirts...
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08/02/2006 11:35:17 PM · #4 |
Just play on what the kids actually want.
"I will give you LESS HOMEWORK!"
"I will give you better lunches!"
"I will ensure that the cheerleading team consists entirely of hotties!"
"I will legalize SLEEPING IN CLASS!"
"Free "A's" for everyone who votes for me!"
"New classes will start on useful things such as Forging Parents' Signatures, How to Make Hot Chicks Like You and Spelling for Dummies."
"I will change the Food Pyramid to include Hamburgers and BEER!" (assuming this is an american school)
I would guess that this is would be a pretty solid campaign platform for an 8th grade student in America.
Don't worry about filling all those promises. Someone is going to have to teach them the realities of politics sooner or later... Education IS one of your goals right?
Don't forget to have budget issues in the first week and ask for a 5 dollar donation from everyone in the school to enact the things you want and then resign... |
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08/02/2006 11:23:32 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I still think the threat of the torch would be most effective.
Just say the word... ;-)
When is this election anyway? |
when school starts?
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08/02/2006 11:20:26 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I still think the threat of the torch would be most effective.
Just say the word... ;-)
When is this election anyway? |
He'll burn it, I'll photograph it.
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08/02/2006 11:19:16 PM · #7 |
I still think the threat of the torch would be most effective.
Just say the word... ;-)
When is this election anyway? |
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08/02/2006 11:12:49 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
Borrow from Nike...but instead of a swoosh, use a big check-mark.
"Just Do It...Vote Megan Hewlett." |
sorry this is what i was talking about.
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08/02/2006 11:06:11 PM · #9 |
that was actually one that i was thinking of doing, i guess it's catchy.
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07/23/2006 09:50:49 PM · #10 |
Borrow from Nike...but instead of a swoosh, use a big check-mark.
"Just Do It...Vote Megan Hewlett."
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07/23/2006 09:41:00 PM · #11 |
| "Ten bucks if ya vote for me!" |
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07/23/2006 08:11:11 PM · #12 |
| do a skit making fun of all the rich preppy girls, and aobut how stupid they are and how they cant do anything for the school. Kids like hummor. |
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07/21/2006 04:09:12 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by crazychick3:
hey
I am running for 8th grade student body at my school, I am having a hard time coming up with a clever but original slogan. If any of you have ideas that would be great.
thanks! :)
-megan |
"Megan. No slogans."
Or, if you like irony, "Megan. Action Not Slogans."
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07/21/2006 01:40:39 AM · #14 |
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07/21/2006 12:56:26 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
Originally posted by jusdino4it:
IT IS A POPULARITY CONTEST |
Pretty good. By 8th grade you'd already gotten a handle on 90% of politics. ;) |
Or perhaps an unpopularity contest -- the phrase "lesser of two evils" springs to mind whenever I free-associate the word "candidates."
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
--Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game" |
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07/21/2006 12:52:28 AM · #16 |
I just graduated high school. The kids who cared about specific issues, who promised reasonable things that we all wanted, and who truly wanted to bring positive change to the school never won. It always went to whoever was prettiest, richest, captain of this or that, most popular, etc. Last year our student council looked like an ad campaign for Stitches. And nothing was accomplished and there were a lot of disappointments where they let us down, but they've all been elected again for next year.
I hope you win. It shouldn't be that way.
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07/21/2006 12:41:58 AM · #17 |
Teddy Roosevelt scored with his punchy statement of his foreign policy approach: "Speak softly and carry a big stick." That is, of course, epigram-caliber language. Imagine if TR had left off the first three words! "Carry a big stick" would just be a bully talking. The introductory "speak softly" turns him into that strong, silent hero of Western fiction who doesn't pick fights, but dadburn it, if he sees you bullying a widow or orphan, get ready for a lickin'.
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07/20/2006 11:44:06 PM · #18 |
Megan, I suggest you talk to the students that would be voting for you, and see what changes THEY are interested in seeing in the school... pick the ones you think have merit and that you can accomplish, then build your platform from there.... find some REAL issues that the students care about, then they will vote for you...
Message edited by author 2006-07-20 23:57:21.
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07/20/2006 11:30:39 PM · #19 |
thanks everyone!
but instead of a speech we do a skit if me make it to top 8, so any ideas for that?
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07/20/2006 05:28:56 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
Originally posted by jusdino4it:
IT IS A POPULARITY CONTEST |
Pretty good. By 8th grade you'd already gotten a handle on 90% of politics. ;) |
Are you kidding me? Popularity is no more than %20....the rest is propaganda. |
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07/20/2006 05:22:33 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by jusdino4it:
IT IS A POPULARITY CONTEST |
Pretty good. By 8th grade you'd already gotten a handle on 90% of politics. ;) |
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07/20/2006 04:51:25 PM · #22 |
| When i ran for president for 8th grade 2 years ago my posters had a picture of me pointing at the camera and it said "i want u to vote for me for student president" Then I Gave the most kick ass speech ever...I started out in a suit and startted stuttering my speech, said "screw this" tore off my suit and was wearing to reveal a shirt that said "vote shimm" (shimm is my last name), said that I wasent going to prommess anythig that i coudlent get like more money for school, and better lunches, and since i am a techie started to get some "rocky" music playing, and by the end, the entire school was on there feet. Then the other kid gave a lame ass speech, said he was going to get us a new principal, and won....because....no matter what you say, IT IS A POPULARITY CONTEST (and the kids boyfriend stole all the ballets and changed a bunch of them) |
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07/20/2006 04:41:33 PM · #23 |
Some keywords to think about...
Originally posted by crazychick3:
*willing to do anything for the school. - Loyalty
*be an example for others. - Bearing
*willing to work hard for things they want. - Commitment
*I'll stay busy the whole year (and produce results). - Enduring
*I will be kind to anyone no matter who it is. - Unselfish, Understaning, Caring
*I will make it a way fun year. - (see next statement)
*I will bring the school together in fun activities. - Cohesiveness
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07/20/2006 03:50:10 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by crazychick3:
hey
I am running for 8th grade student body at my school, I am having a hard time coming up with a clever but original slogan. If any of you have ideas that would be great.
thanks! :)
-megan |
"Hewlett the Dogs Out!" |
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07/20/2006 03:46:07 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
"Vote for Megan or wallow in the ashes of your former village!" :) |
Or we could shorten this and be more direct:
"A vote for Megan saves your village!"
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