We’ve just launched our very own Bill Gates for President forums, after receiving requests to do so. We’re not sure these boards will turn out to be successful, but seeing as we’re adventurous people, we’ve decided to give it a go.

The link? http://www.BillGatesforPresident.net/board/. See you there!

In the next few days we’ll be zooming in on some of the opinions people have been spreading on the net about the whole “Bill-Gates-for-President-Bandwagon”. Here’s an excerpt from a blog entry earlier on today that caught our eye from the Times Online News Log:

President Gates of the United States. Do you like the way that sounds? Because you are not alone. A cause doing the rounds of the internet this week - admittedly where you would expect to find his base - is for Bill Gates to run for President in 2008, or any time he wants to.

It took us a moment to get used to the idea, but then we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it before. The Microsoft man has done computers; he’s done capitalism; he’s doing as much as anyone to get on top of HIV / Aids and Malaria; so why not the White House?

We’ve had a rough (but great!) day here at Bill Gates for President dot net. After being featured on Scott Adams’ The Dilbert Blog, our url traveled the web at high speed, quickly ending up on Slashdot, and quite a few other websites, blogs and discussion boards … The high amount of traffic less than two days after the official launch of this web page was a bit too much for us to handle for about an hour, but after moving to a new web server (Yes, we’re still on a linux machine!), we were able to recover within a decent time frame. We would like to thank everyone for the attention this website has received, and apologize for the short downtime!

A little over an hour ago Scott Adams has blown a whole lot of extra life into our ambitious website. Thanks, Scott! It’s great to see we’re not alone, and we’re sure more people will jump on the bandwagon in the next few days and weeks.

One of our main concerns however is keeping our web page in the spotlight, and reaching a large amount of people with our beliefs and ideas, but also with interesting articles, pro and contra. That’s right, being rationalists just like Bill (a little bit less wealthy, maybe), we believe our web page should be a place where all opinions have their place. You feel like challenging us? Bring it on! Relevance and quality are the only things we demand.

Welcome to Bill Gates for President dot net. After loads of hard work we’re finally ready to launch the website and start sharing our views on the 2008 (and 2012!) presidential elections and why we believe Bill Gates should run for president. Expect this web page to evolve slowly, hopefully reaching cruising speed somewhere in the first months of 2007.

Our first goal is to be heard. We would love to evoke thought and will try to stimulate debates in our personal way. We have no problem with different opinions. We feel very strongly about support political discussions. Our dream, getting Bill and Melinda in the White House, might not be too realistic in the short run. But don’t worry: we’ll be here along the way, even if it takes a decade. Enjoy reading our website!