New: Design your own US president

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — Fed up with the flaws of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain?

Here's your chance to set things right.

An innovative website using Wikipedia-like collaborative software has given people around the world to design the perfect -- if sadly fictional -- candidate for the US presidency.

On www.Wikicandidate08.com, contributors in the quest for the ideal person to run America over the next four years can edit or over-write previous entries, changing the sex, name, photo and political agenda and response to events in the news.

Wikicandidate has kicked off proceedings with an imaginary candidate based on a real-life American satirical comedian, Stephen Colbert.

According to the site's bio, Colbert plays cello and mandolin and...

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