Singing Candidates - Who's the Better Artist for President?

Whoopeee! Finally some of my ideas are being taken seriously at the highest level!

This past week both President Obama and his closest (for now) competitor Mitt Romney were auditioning for “Singer for President”. In jurying their performances it seemed to me that Prez Obama has the better ear, sense of timing and overall higher rating, but I’d like to hear from the other judges.

Of course in my suggested guidelines for a chakra-balanced Presidential Cabinet the art of song was assigned to the Secretary of the Department of Treasure. A fully qualified Artist for President would have to pass scrutiny in the arts of gardening, portrait painting, fine cuisine, sculpture, poetry and dance, as well as song, in order to have lines of communication fully open between the President and each member of his or her Cabinet. Therefore these two candidates will both have to submit to at least six more contests. Score so far: Obama 1, Romney 0.

The main focus of my 1983-84 campaign was the idea that if every citizen were truly an artist, any president we elect will by default be an artist. “The Nation is the Artwork; we are the artists creating it” and the only difference between being or not being an artist is that artists take aesthetic responsibility for what we create, and for cleaning up the messes we leave in the creative process. Ronald Reagan was an artifact, not an artist, a highly skilled practitioner of the art of persuading people to believe things harmful to public benefit, while ignoring the messy consequences of his artistry. Today there is so much mess around us because too few see ourselves as artists. Few are willing to take on the disciplines.

Think of this: If we live as if the future will reveal itself as the consequence of rigorous art practice, it just might do that!