-- Posted by intermillion at 1:04 pm on May 26, 2008 so, what do you look to from your leaders, what aspects are important to you, political parties aside -- Posted by Phoenix27 at 1:09 pm on May 26, 2008 Intelligence... That's the most obvious choice. -- Posted by matto at 11:30 pm on June 4, 2008 Other. If their views (on EVERYTHING that matters - problems in society and the world, solutions to the problems, specific ways of going about them, views on things that affect me, etc) match mine more than another candidate, than they should have my vote.  (I'm not of voting age yet, unfortunately... but you know)  I think that that should be the primary method of choosing.  Debating and speaking skills are certainly important, but, as far as most candidates go, they've already got that shit down. -- Posted by hithere at 12:08 am on June 5, 2008 Is this the Intellectual Forum or not? Honestly.... I'd probably say skillful debating, although if I don't like their moral judgment that debating should seem kind of empty. -- Posted by gronk at 6:10 am on June 20, 2008 morral judgement, nice yeah i think that is important, but so is honesty and integrity. Who cares how smart you are, how charismatic you are how good a debater you are, if you are going to lie and be deceitful about things. -- Posted by alexmills at 8:24 am on June 20, 2008 Why was I the only to choose Strong Actions? Many, many candidates *are* intelligent, have skillful talking and debating and decent moral judgment but very, very few actually have a history of making good on their promises and taking action. Although, looking at George Bush and his war, maybe he was all action and no intelligence or moral judgment.