Why I should be the Next President of the USA

Why I should be the Next President of the USA
By Carlos T Mock, MD
May 30, 2010


The Tea Party movement things that Sarah Palin should succeed president Obama as the 45th President of the United States. In my opinion my qualifications are superior to hers.

I know that Africa is a continent, not a country.

I read every morning, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Chicago Sun-Times.

I know the difference between North and South Korea. The Korean War (1950–53) was the first major proxy war in the Cold War (1945–91), the prototype of the following sphere-of-influence wars such as the Vietnam War (1959–75). The Korean War established proxy war as one way that the nuclear superpowers indirectly conducted their rivalry in third-party countries. The NSC-68 Containment Policy extended the cold war from occupied Europe to the rest of the world. Fighting ended at the 38th parallel and the DMZ, a strip of land 248x4 km (155x2.5 mi), now divides the two countries—but neither of the Koreas officially ended the war.

I know that Africa is a continent, not a country.

I know that the Boston Tea Party was a revolt of Americans against the British Empire for taxation without representation—and had nothing to do with the size of our government.

I’ve actually been to Russia, which is better than seeing it from afar.

Ms Palin was elected to office—namely Governor of Alaska—but she abandoned her post as soon as she realized she could become a millionaire. She placed money over her constituency, and that is something I would never do.

There is one big area I can’t compete against her—for at 54, I don’t think I qualify as “hot.” If beauty is a qualification for the presidency of the United State, then I nominate Beyoncé; not only she is much more younger and beautiful than Ms. Palin—she can also sing and act. Besides, Beyoncé was born in Houston, Texas—and you can’t get more American than that.

Finally, I don’t exploit my family for political purposes—and I would NEVER allow my daughter to get pregnant before being married by a priest or minister.

There might be one problem, I was born in Puerto Rico—and in the midst of one of the most precipitous political crashes in the Mountain West, Sarah Palin made a mad dash into Boise on Friday, urging the election of a man who had plagiarized his campaign speech from Barack Obama, had been rebuked by the military for misusing the Marine uniform and had called the American territory of Puerto Rico a separate country.

Dr. Carlos T Mock is a native Puerto Rican who resides in Chicago, IL and Three Oaks, MI. He has published four books and is the GLBT Editor for Floricanto Press in Berkley, CA. He contributes columns regularly to Windy City Times in Chicago, Ambiente Magazine in Miami, Camp Newspaper in Kansas City. He's had several OP-Ed published at the Chicago Tribune. He can be reached at http://www.carlostmock.com/