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Thank you for the post. All I can say, honestly, is that I myself could NEVER run for President. Imagine if every bad thing you ever did was suddenly ripe for the press?

Every sexual thing...

A drunken party...

A wild night at the disco...

The thing you “got over” in your marriage...

That night in college you’ll never forget...

The time you flipped the MG...

All I can say, honestly, is that I sympathize with these poor bastards, and I regret that we’re going to get Presidents from here on in who haven’t LIVED a whit.

You bring up some good points. As younger people become eligible for the presidency, they are going to have a history on the Internet, be it Facebook postings, photos they are tagged in, or anywhere else on the web they posted an opinion on something.

In this digital age, no matter how careful you are, chances are that if you ever run for public office, you will have something on the Internet that will compromise you or cast you in a poor light.

Consider all of us posting to this here Free Republic for example. Is anybody here proud of every single post they ever made here? If not, how do you think posting here would affect your chances to run for public office down the road?

I think my posting history is pretty respectable here overall but if I ran for public office and everything I ever posted here was exposed, well, there is enough there to make me a national laughingstock if I was ever a serious candidate for president. Even something as innocuous as my witty reply to a "Caption Helen Thomas" thread will make me seem like a hateful right-wing extremist son of a bitch if my liberal opponent decided to use it against me - and you can be guaranteed that they will.

Yes, it will be interesting to see just who we will find to run for president once the "Facebook" generation comes of age to assume power.

Thank you for the post. All I can say, honestly, is that I myself could NEVER run for President. Imagine if every bad thing you ever did was suddenly ripe for the press?

President, hell, I couldn't even run for city council or school board.

With my "varied and interesting" life experiences you wouldn't even need a private investigator to get enough on me to embarrass my family to make me withdraw.

Even if you've lead a "good" life, there are so many things that "good" people have done, which can be twisted into ugly events, that I don't know how we get any candidates.

There is no background on obama, and only the msm provides cover for that "oversight".