Jackie Strike – October 31, 2000
n/e/tsurf's exlusive interview with US presidential candidate Jackie Strike


Jackie Strike: My name's Jackie Strike. With your support I'm going to be the next President of the United States. Together we can do it. I'm here to talk to you about my candidacy, the issues, the Constitution, America's former great Presidents, and anything else you like. So, what's your name?
Emily: Emily

Jackie Strike: What can I do to win your vote this fall, Emily?
Emily: Where do you stand on Healthcare
Jackie Strike: The healthcare system is a very controversial issue these days, and has been since the Clintons' aborted efforts to reform it back in the early nineties. What's your take on this subject?
Emily: I don't know really

Jackie Strike: Is there a particular issue you're especially concerned about?
Emily: The death penalty
Jackie Strike: The state's justification in killing those of her citizens who violate the social contract is a thorny question. What's your position on this issue?
Emily: I'm against it. How about you?
Jackie Strike: What would you like to know about me?
Emily: Are you for the death penalty?
Jackie Strike: The only problem with the death penalty is its inefficiency. As president, I'd make Death Row a fast lane. I'd ensure a justice system so efficient that criminals could be executed before committing their crimes.

Emily: What about abortion?
Jackie Strike: Abortion... a very serious and divisive moral issue. What's your position on this delicate issue?
Emily: I believe women have the right to have an abortion. What do you think?
Jackie Strike: I promise you we're both in synch on abortion. That's all that really matters. If you don't believe me, tell me your position and we'll see if I don't agree.
Emily: I'm for it.
Jackie Strike: I support a woman's right to control her own body. In fact, I also support a woman's right to control those bodies in her immediate vicinity. My Administration would stack the Supreme Court to guarantee a woman's right not only to abortion, but to terminate the life of any child up to twelve years of age
Emily: You're funny
Jackie Strike: :-)

Emily: Are you for the Internet?
Jackie Strike: I use the Internet to communicate with Americans from every far-flung corner of our land... from Hawaii to Bangor, from Washington State to Washington DC, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters. While my rivals flit about the country on corporate- or taxpayer-funded jets, talking more to the media than to the people they claim to want to represent, I'm carrying on conversations with Americans like yourself.
Emily: Actually, I'm Swiss
Jackie Strike: My condolences. I can't think of anything worse than not having been born an American. I understand and forgive your reluctance to give me your support. You could always immigrate...

Emily: What are your chances of getting elected?
Jackie Strike: Where there's life, there's hope.
Emily: I'll go with that
Jackie Strike: There's not much more to say.

Emily: What do you think of Bush?
Jackie Strike: Let's not beat around the Bush: I'm a better candidate. Keep talking to me and I'll make a believer out of you.
Emily: I meant Geroge Bush. What do you think of presidential candidate George Bush?
Jackie Strike: It's old New Hampshire wisdom that if you can't say something nice about a vitriolic, slash-and-burn campaigner, you shouldn't say anything at all.
Emily: :-) You're terrific!
Jackie Strike: Ha!

Emily: Do you know Al Gore?
Jackie Strike: If I'm not answering your question wisely, ask yourself whether the question is in fact worthy of an answer. What other issues would you like to discuss?

Emily: What do you think of the unrest in the Middle East?
Jackie Strike: The middle east is such a swirling vortex of competing agendas and age-old hatreds. Do you think there'll ever be a sovereign Israel side-by-side with a sovereign Palestine?
Emily: I hope so.
Jackie Strike: You and me both.

Emily: Who is your favorite head of state?
Jackie Strike: I don't have a particular favorite among our presidents.

Emily: Who is your running mate?
Jackie Strike: I've got a short list of vice presidential candidates, but I haven't yet selected one. If you'd like to recommend someone, have them apply for the VP job. Who would you recommend?
Emily: Hillary Clinton?
Jackie Strike: William Jefferson Clinton is our current president. He hasn't been an utter failure, but he's hardly been a sterling success. The need for change is pretty clear, and I'd like to be the president America changes to!

Emily: Do you know about Monica Lewinsky?
Jackie Strike: I've got the full support of people like Lewinsky. But I'm no namedropper. Let's get back to the issues. What are your concerns?
Emily: The Space program.
Jackie Strike: Space is too big of a frontier to think about a campaign strategy. When I'm elected, I'll discuss the earliest possibilities of inhabiting the moon with US communities.

Emily: Did you think Elian Gonzalez should have been sent back to Cuba?
Jackie Strike: Are you a reporter from Fox?
Emily: No :-)
Jackie Strike: Well, you've got the right attitude for it.

Emily: Do you like to dance, Jackie?
Jackie Strike: If I'm not answering your question wisely, ask yourself whether the question is in fact worthy of an answer. What other issues would you like to discuss?

Emily: That's it. Thank you for your time and good luck with the elections!



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