Have a go at being a Politician!

[William GBTW]

JOURNALIST
It Does! The birthmark looks like a Swastika! Is that a tatoo?

 

[Mathilda]

Mr W, it's a birthmark.

I have time for more more question.

 

[JerichoHill]

This thread had potential

 

[Tycoon101]

Scenario Three
Questions from the journalists:

~ Ms Z, what was the purpose of your visits to the palace of Prince Sami?

I have been down to Prince Sami's Palace because I have been learning of Islam, is it not polite to learn of your neighbor's religeon? I dare say, it was a most enlightening time of spiritual knoledge!

~ Ms Z, do you see there being any problems between your role as Development Minister and your sister's sizeable holdings in "Captodeass Ltd", especially given your tendancy to buy houses together with her?

None whatsoever! My sister has a large stake in a company, why should I be opposed to this? Why would this company and my sister be responsible for these civil wars and such? It is the peoples' faults that there are these military uses for these arms, not the company's.

~ Ms Z, your predecessor as Development Minister brokered an arms reduction deal with leaders of this region. They are now successfully destroying handheld firearms, landmines and other explosives in large quantities. Do you intend to further your predecessor's work here? If so, how?

Not at all. Weaponry leads to safety, and construction of rights. If we disarm the populace, then we take away their rights and send these areas into more turmoil. If anything, I would rearm the populace to keep it together.

 

[North King]

I'll take a stab at being Ms. Z

~ Ms Z, what was the purpose of your visits to the palace of Prince Sami?

Frankly, I do not see that there is any reason to be particularly suspicious about this; I started corresponding with the Prince early in my political career and he has become a good friend.

~ Ms Z, do you see there being any problems between your role as Development Minister and your sister's sizeable holdings in "Captodeass Ltd", especially given your tendancy to buy houses together with her?

Of course I don't see any problems. Are you suggesting I would use my position to favor the company my sister has shares in? I have only the utmost respect for the importance of my job, and I will not use it for anything other than what it was meant to be.

~ Ms Z, your predecessor as Development Minister brokered an arms reduction deal with leaders of this region. They are now successfully destroying handheld firearms, landmines and other explosives in large quantities. Do you intend to further your predecessor's work here? If so, how?

I am indeed planning on continuing my esteemed predecessor's work in this venue. Among the methods I intend to use are brokering peace agreements between the various warring factions--though that is more along the lines of what I'm suggesting to the foreign minister--and I also intend to persuade the various suppliers to cut off their supplies.

I know that may of you will question my resolve in this matter, but believe me, the supposed "arms deals" that I am cutting with Prince Sami are nothing of the sort. Indeed, the past five visits (all friendly, of course), have seen he and I discussing at great length the nature of his corporation, and I believe I have made great strides towards convincing him to turn his company to more tasteful products.

As you can see, then, these visits are nothing outside of seeing an old friend--and I have been furthering my job while doing them, as well.

I would be quite willing to take any further questions from the press.

 

[Shadylookin]

~ Mr X, what were you doing in that hot tub and who were those ladies?

They were friends of the other man. A little too friendly if you ask me so i finished my cigar and retired to my hotel room. At my age you need a full 8 hours before going to work at 8am, and my days of partying with teenage girls all night are long past me.

~ Mr X, your acquaintance in the film is vaguely familiar, can you clear up who he is exactly?

Just another White Sox fan. We had a short conversation about baseball, but when you bring 9 women with you it's obvious that shooting the breeze about sports isn't what's really on your mind. He certaintly didn't seem like the sort of character i wanted to hang around with and continue to be happily married with my wife anyway.

~ Mr X, in your earlier career, you were responsible for bringing in two bills. The first was to outlaw prostitution altogether. The second was to allow video tape as a legitimate form of evidence in court. Do you have any regrets about that?

of course not. I assumed his lady friends were just golddiggers given the fact that he looked well off, but if it is found out he picked them up off the street then by all means we can prosecute him. Why would i want to revoke that legislation? It has help the justice department send more murderers, rapists, and many other criminals to jail where they belong. It's the best thing since DNA testing for putting bad people behind bars.

 

[Shadylookin]

~ When you were at university, did you ever take part in any photo shoots? If so, what was the nature of these?

yes i did. it was supposed to be a tasteful art piece for an art class i had at the time. Unfortunately it didn't turn out too tasteful and declined to use them and went with an oil based painting instead

~ Ms Y, we understand that you had a relationship with a certain Mr Wood whilst at university. Can you verify the nature of this relationship please and also what profession Mr Wood now follows?

We had a brief romantic relationship, but once his true nature showed I broke up with him. From what i've been told he is now working in the adult film industry

~ Ms Y, is this your butt? And is this your birthmark on your butt? *holds up photo and points to birthmark on butt*

Well rarely am i able to get a glimpse of my backside, but yes the photo does look like me.

 

[Whomp]

Ram--great thread. I thought about this type of thread too but you know my success keeping interest around OT. Mine was where people would act on behalf of a particular country and scenarios would be released and responded to.

I won't add to the answers since it seems X,Y and Z have been handled.

Just another White Sox fan.

No more questions from me. You're all good Slim Shady.

 

[Shadylookin]

~ Ms Z, what was the purpose of your visits to the palace of Prince Sami?

me and prince sami have been friends since I first started getting into business before i becamse as sucessful as i am today. I often will take vacations and go visit some old friends

~ Ms Z, do you see there being any problems between your role as Development Minister and your sister's sizeable holdings in "Captodeass Ltd", especially given your tendancy to buy houses together with her?

Of course not. captodeass is the logical choice for that area of manufactoring whether you are a multi-billionare or my sister. Besides captodeass and real estate are about alike as apples and oranges

~ Ms Z, your predecessor as Development Minister brokered an arms reduction deal with leaders of this region. They are now successfully destroying handheld firearms, landmines and other explosives in large quantities. Do you intend to further your predecessor's work here? If so, how?

I plan to continue his ideals, but not necessarily his methods. Getting rid of weapons to make war is a noble idea, but not all countries play by what the rules should be. Whatever arms they dont' buy from us they'll buy from another country willing to suppy them. This is why negotiating ceasefires and ending hostilities is a better way to go about it. We can keep making expensive and futile attempts to keep weapons away from these people, or we can attempt to make them not want to wage war altogether.

 

[SoCalian]

Spoiler :

Well, I actually plan on entering into Politics, so I'll give this a shot. Greayt I dea for a thread.

Hello, I'm Ms Z. Ladies and Gentelmen of the press, welcome. I assume you have many questions for me, so let's get started shall we?

~ Ms Z, what was the purpose of your visits to the palace of Prince Sami?

As, you no doubt have guessed by now, the purpouse of my visit was, in fact, to broker an arms deal. My original intenet was to convince Prince Sami to reduce his firearms production. However, when he revealed to me just how much his county relied on revenues from this industry, it became clear that such an deal was not possible. So, I proposed an alternative plan that would allow his people to continue profit from the sale of firearms, and still reduce the number of firearms in the region. He could manufacture the arms, but instead of selling them to warlords, criminals, and terrorists, he would sell distribution rigths to a Corporation from our nation who would ensure that the weapons were used for more peacful means.

~ Ms Z, do you see there being any problems between your role as Development Minister and your sister's sizeable holdings in "Captodeass Ltd", especially given your tendancy to buy houses together with her?

Frankly, there was no better company to execute this deal with that Captodeass. Though I must admit that my sister's influence within Captodeass was rather useful when trying to convincethem to support the plan.

~ Ms Z, your predecessor as Development Minister brokered an arms reduction deal with leaders of this region. They are now successfully destroying handheld firearms, landmines and other explosives in large quantities. Do you intend to further your predecessor's work here? If so, how?

I certainly indend to continue my noble predacesor's work, which is why I took the trip in the first place.

Are there any more questions?

 

[Kozmos]

This thread delivers.

 

[Gilder]

I shall try being Mr. X.

Mr X, what were you doing in that hot tub and who were those ladies?

What was I doing with them you say? Well, they are daughters of some old friends of mine. Some fine young ladies wanting advice about certain careers, and what it was like to be in politcs. I protested about them coming into the hot tub, and disturbing the good conversation I was having with my friend at the time, but they would not cease to persist.

Mr X, your acquaintance in the film is vaguely familiar, can you clear up who he is exactly?

Who is he? A friend of mine who is currently helping me locate some prime real estate, so I can move into the countryside. He has a nose for real estate.

Mr X, in your earlier career, you were responsible for bringing in two bills. The first was to outlaw prostitution altogether. The second was to allow video tape as a legitimate form of evidence in court. Do you have any regrets about that?

Of course not. Prostituion is immoral, and video tapes can help put criminals behind bars. They are needed evidence in the courts, when available.

 

[Mathilda]

Journalist here.

What was I doing with them you say? Well, they are daughters of some old friends of mine. Some fine young ladies wanting advice about certain careers, and what it was like to be in politcs. I protested about them coming into the hot tub, and disturbing the good conversation I was having with my friend at the time, but they would not cease to persist.

So Mr X, how do you respond to the allegation that these daughters of your friends all work as prostitutes?

 

[Gilder]

Journalist here.


So Mr X, how do you respond to the allegation that these daughters of your friends all work as prostitutes?

If so, I had no idea. But clearly, they are looking to get away from that, if they are prostitutes.

 

[Mathilda]

Journalist!

Who is he? A friend of mine who is currently helping me locate some prime real estate, so I can move into the countryside. He has a nose for real estate.

A friend of your's Mr X?
The rest of the country knows him from his less than legal activities.
How close is your relationship and how often have you used your government position to help him to stay out of the reach of the law?