Wanted: A President Or Candidate Who Really Will Work With Everyone

In this presidential election year, it seems a standard requirement for all of the contenders, whether it is the incumbent or his challengers, in speeches and in platform, is to promise voters that he or she will, "work together" with members of the other side or the other political philosophy in a spirit of "bipartisan cooperation."

But sadly, these phrases have carried a hollow ring for a public that grows ever more weary of hearing the constant "us versus them" tirades of party or legislative leaders about how their agenda or idea will save us. But the other side just will not go along. Hey, members of the public! We have the answers to save the state or the nation. But THEM...those other people over there, they oppose us and they just will not go along. That is when everyone forgets about the spirit of bipartisan cooperation. And that is why the term is toting such an empty meaning these days in the collective consciousness of many of us when we hear it during an election year.

Do I have to actually say that we will not get very far at all without that genuine real and actual bipartisan cooperation, in our state and most certainly in our nation?

But we are talking about Washington here because this is the race for the White House.

You see, I have this theory, far-fetched though it may be. My theory goes something like this: the first candidate for president, incumbent or challenger, regardless of his party affiliation, who can hunker down and make a sincere, honest and convincing argument that if elected, he or she will finally and decisively work with EVERYONE on both sides of the aisle to accomplish the important and crucial goals and solve our most serious problems, and succeed in making the people believe they really, really mean it, that person will win the Oval Office, regardless of their party.

Unfortunately, you must first convince the voters that you are dead-on sincere about working with everyone. And then you have to actually follow through.

Okay, I have given everyone a glimpse of the mountain. Now, how the heck do we get over it?