If you could be President of The United States for one day, what would you do?

Legalize same-sex marriage or not tie any benefits to marriage all together, healthcare and education to all for free, pull out troops, use money from war budget and put it into the education budget; provide better shelter systems for the homeless, better services for the homeless, toughen up hate crimes legislation, mandate gender neutral bathrooms in every building, make it a crime to not hire people based on gender identity or expression, etc. etc. I could go on.

You are assuming that the president has some sort of unilateral power – for the most part, he does not.

@syz yeah I was pretending I was all powerful and that we have enough money

Remove Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir Mandating gender neutral bathrooms is asking for trouble from the pervs.

I would never want to share a bathroom with college-age men.

@filmfann That reason has been given for many changes to not go into effect and I’d rather hope for the best in people rather than for the worst – there is a concert place here called Webster Hall where all people of any gender go to the bathroom TOGETHER (shocker I know) and I have never seen any issues from anyone there and I’ve been there a lot…it’s all about what is expected of people in that place it is expected for you to be able to go to the bathroom with any one else and not be a child about it. Besides I meant (though I don’t personally believe in these) in addition to men/women bathrooms. And, lol, of all the things I mentioned, you picked that to question.

Legalize it!

I’d outlaw HETERO marriage!!!!

Or more likely just do everything that @Simone_De_Beauvoir said.

Or ask Fluther what I should do. That would be a bomb question.

I run around naked in the oval office. Then make a bunch of pointless executive orders. After I’d challenge the joint chiefs to a game of Hearts of Iron 3. And pretend to play the campaign of MW2 with Paintball guns.

I’d probably head back to the ranch and move some brush.

Fly around on Air Force One for 24 hours. Can’t make any decisions, so why not enjoy the luxury on the tax payer’s dime.

I’d go on vacation.

Get angry with congress for their inaction? Like mentioned above, the president can’t do much in a single day.

I hear you saying that the President has limited or no powers, but surely he can make some kind of desicion to affect change in 24 hours, yes? no? possibly?

@Simone_De_Beauvoir In reality, there is no limit to the pervy things people do. The first thing I thought of was the Geek Squad tech, who came to a house to hook up a router, and immediately put his camera-phone in the bathroom, to record people there. He was caught, but that probably means there are 5 people out there who didn’t get caught.
A lot of the things you listed are out of the powers of the President. He is not an emperor, and cannot hammer thru most of these things.
My suggestion is completely in his power. He can do it with the stroke of a pen.

@filmfann I know he can’t do these things. I said so above. I was fantasizing.

Ya well I would like band school for a couple of years and then I would make a law tht people from same sex can get married

I’d probably be stopped by Security and prevented from entering the building.

I would pardon every single victimless criminal in America that I could list. I would apologize to the world for America’s crimes and vow that I’d have no part of any of it. I would cancel every single low-handed Executive Order and Security Order there is.

I would issue new Executive Orders that re-establish the protections of the Bill of Rights.

I would order the D.E.A. to focus on violent crime, international trafficking, and abuse of the forests. I would order them to immediately cease and desist all marijuana enforcement outside of the first 3 things listed in this paragraph.

I would order an emergency halt of all mountaintop removal coal minings, along with a bailout of those coal companies and their workers to help them shut down more orderly.

I would order the U.S.D.A. to stop spending tax money on following around hippies who live in forests. They have better priorities for the Incident Command Teams.

I would issue an order prohibiting false-flag operations by all of America’s military branches and intelligence and police agencies, and allied contractors. No exceptions, not even for national security reasons.

I would send high level State Department diplomats to North Korea, Iran, Yemen, and Al Quaida, with a policy of talks being always available and never a bartering tool.

I would order the military to follow pollution laws that corporations have to follow, except in declared specific national emergencies.

I would issue an executive order enabling all victims of rape and other violent crime oversees, being able to sue their perpetrator, if the perpetrator is an American person, American resident, or American company.

I would go on television and then list all of the hoaxes, crimes, lies, and deceptions of previous Administrations and current bureaucrats… before I got assassinated.

@Kraigmo You’re a man of action! I like it!

Make every woman who is on public assistance and still able to have babies wear a birth conrol implant or she can choose not to and get no public assistance. I knew a lady once in Delaware who kept pumping out babies just to keep on public assistance. Between the 8 children they had 5 different daddies and she got no financial aid from them. She just wanted to be able to stay at home watching her soaps. I don’t see why the public has to continue to give money to people with no goal to better their lives.

(1) Sentence Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Glen Beck, Carl Rove, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to Guantanamo Prison until 2090.
(2) Permanently legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States
(3) Abolish the Electoral College
(4) Ban private ownership of Assault weapons, and any automatic or semi-automatic weapons
(5) Appoint Sarah Palin the lifelong Ambassador to Antarctica
(6) Require that Fox News Network be rename Fox Comedy and Entertainment Network
(7) Abolish discrimination against Gays and Lesbians in the Military.
(8) Restore funding to NASA for space research.
(9) Close Coal and other fossil fuel Power Plants by the end of 2014
(10) Require automakers to produce economical, electric cars by 2014.
(11) Ban fossil fuel powered vehicles within city limits after 2014
(12) Institute full medicare for all legal residents of the USA by 2012
(13) Nationalize all insurance health insurance companies
(14) Nationalize all for profit medical facilities
(15) Set uniform fee schedule for doctors fees and hospital services.

One day’s not enough time to do more than to take my friends for rides in Air Force One.

@Dr_Lawrence That was pretty well thought out, but why would you want to punish the animals at Antarctica. Why would you want to release, Annie get your gun, there? Plus how will she keep an eye on Russia from there?

Annie gets no guns in Antarctica – the penguins do though!

Make high-quality foreign language teaching mandatory for all fifth graders.

@mattbrowne good one!

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – Maybe your son will be interested in learning German ;-)

@mattbrowne well they’ll know Russian and English – their next language should be Spanish, probably, lol..simply because that way if they hang around NYC they’ll have so many more opportunities.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – Actually, any foreign language will do. It’s a wonderful experience for kids. And adults too, of course.

If I were President for one day I would cheat on my husband, the first husband, with a hot lesbian.