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comment by kleinbl00

Good morning, everyone. You all know me. You should elect me for president.

Your choice today matters more than you think. Whoever you elect will influence and manage how much we spend to get (sport) to (event.) How we (allocate money) to (sport) and (club). How we (something something money). You'll still take the SAT, you'll still graduate, you'll still go to college - but whoever you elect will determine how much fun you have doing it.

It's a glamorous title for an ignoble task - the S.O. president is an accountant, a middle manager, a bean counter. It looks great on a college application, so the competition is fierce- but the proper candidate isn't an iconic seeker of limelight. The right S.O. president is someone with a knack for detail work and a love of compromise. You don't need a leader, you need an organizer. You need someone whose goal is coalition, not charisma. You need someone who knows that to lead is to get out of the way.

I've done this. I was class president last year. I was in the cabinet. I know the students, the teachers, the administrators that kept Tenafly third in the state. Right now? We're eighteenth. Are you happy with that? I'm not. I think we can do better. I think I can do better. Choose me, and we'll all do better.

My name is Pabst. I'm your best choice for S.O. president. Thank you.





nowaypablo  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On almost all aspects of this speech: holy fuck kb. I'd only change some words like 'ignoble' or even 'knack' to sound cleaner and better when spoken. I really appreciate this, I shoud all but take the words off your text directly.

where are your badges people look at this masterpiece ._.

kleinbl00  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah dude, use your language. I don't know you, I don't know your audience. This needs to be YOUR speech.

lil  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pabs, grab the kb speech. It's golden.

nowaypablo  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know I know I am I am!

As perfect as it is there are some things that aren't actually going to hold up when applied to my audience: at this point it's too cliché for me to say that 'I'm not just here to seek limelight,' that's what everyone says now cause I used to say it all the time.

Semantics, but I'm fleshing out the details as we speak :)

lil  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ideally you can make them laugh, make them cry, and give them hope.

It seems a bit much to ask for a high school SO president candidate -- and to do it in 60 seconds, but that's the formula.

kleinbl00  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My experience may be different 'cuz I was one cynical SOB, but if you can make them give a shit that might just be enough.

lil  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would be great if they gave a shit about things that might affect their school experience, but I'm not sure they do. Did you see the film The Trotsky. That's a brilliant film about how much high school kids don't give a shit.

I think they generally vote for someone funny and amusing or sexy and popular. My guess is all he really has to do is be funny and they'd vote for him. nowaypablo

user-inactivated  ·  3292 days ago  ·  link  ·  

oh look I was right

mk  ·  3291 days ago  ·  link  ·  

1001.