We’ve been busy. Thousands of visitors mean hundreds of e-mails, and they don’t read themselves… When, after about 3 hours of replying to e-mails you logg in to your wordpress admin panel to approve some comments you, see this kind of ranting, you feel like sharing (Click the thumbnail to see the full size digital picture) …

No, your comments weren’t deleted, my ranting friend. The 3 minutes it took for you to post 3 comments weren’t enough for us to approve them.

Oh by the way… We decided on deleting his comments anyway. They received more than enough attention with this blog entry if you ask us…

We receive so many “At first I was like, euh… But now that I think about it…”-remarks! It’s amazing to see that a lot of people are giving these ideas a chance, debating whether or not they could support Bill Gates as a presidential candidate. That’s great! We would like to thank all of you for sending in your own ideas, beliefs and thoughts.

Time for a short selection of comments from the BB’s (Bill-Believers):

In outsourcing to India, he made Microsoft more productive economically and more profitable. If he had these same goals as president, our country might be in much better shape. Now all we need is a legislative branch that doesn’t put party affiliation before logic. ~Joyce B.

By posting these remarks we received in our mailbox we just earned the right to add a provocative title. Anyway, some of the comments and e-mails we receive make interesting points against our case, most of them don’t. We’ve filtered out the “Bill Gates can’t be a good President because Microsoft is *xxx*” and the “Bill Gates is not a successful business man because Microsoft is *xxx*” crap, and decided feature these arguments:

This is an interesting idea, but completely unrealistic and a little idealistic. If Big Business’s influence in politics is bad, then the biggest man in Big Business who influences not only US politics, but world politics as well, should be just as bad. Politics is not Viral Marketing. ~Susan Adams

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?