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Adam Teiichi Yoshida is the first Japanese-American to serve in the office of both Vice President and President as well as the youngest President in American history (taking office just short of his forty-second birthday, he edged out Theodore Roosevelt by a few months). Adam Yoshida is a controversial figure with enemies to spare. A lightning rod as President, he has left a strong mark upon the political landscape in Washington DC and on the moon, which he wishes to annex. He also has a penchant for calling anyone who disagrees with him "unpatriotic" and is fond of calling for the deaths of "America's enemies." Usually feared or hated rather than loved, Yoshida is nonetheless a shrewd public politician who works for his agenda without apology or respite.
Born on August 8th, 1963 in Washington State to a Japanese-American father and a British mother, Yoshida attended Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Having paid for his college via enrollment in the Harvard ROTC program (which required drills at nearby MIT), Yoshida was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1985. He remained on active duty through 1989 and remained a member of the reserves through January 19, 2005- retiring with the rank of Major.
After his return to private life, Yoshida relocated to South Carolina where he earned a Master's Degree in History and worked briefly as a lecturer and author before being elected to Congress in 1994 as part of the Contract With America, developing a reputation as a shrewd partisan and a hawk among hawks.
Yoshida ran for the Republican nomination for President in the first AGS election as an ultraconservative. He campaigned almost exclusively in the South, only visiting other states to launch attacks on more moderate candidates such as Leonard Hobbes and Bill Parkerson?. Yoshida won several southern primaries including Oklahoma and his home state of South Carolina, but was unable to build enough momentum for nomination. Yet this was not his strategy- rather than try to win outright, Yoshida used the rules of the primary to accumulate delegates, and used those to form an alliance with Virginian Greg Williams which ensured Williams' nomination over Hobbes, who had previously led in delegates. This pact caused many to cry foul; the term "getting Hobbesed" comes from the deal. Yet the deal paid off, as Williams defeated Brandon Long in the general election, making Yoshida Vice President.
Yoshida quickly became one of the most vocal, influential and controversial Vice Presidents in history, as President Williams' chief foreign policy advisor and a top voice in the administration's domestic policy. Yoshida was a strong proponent of Operation Crimson Dawn, the offensive into Fallujah that drew cries of condemnation from the world for the many civilian casualties.
Soon after Crimson Dawn President Williams stepped down for health reasons, making Adam Yoshida the 45th President of the United States. He pledged to tone down his rhetoric in office, but this did not last long; instead, Yoshida put America and the world on notice as to what style of Presidency he would have when he ordered a surprise bombing of Iran. This attack, which prompted several prominent cabinent members to quit shortly before the attack, reportedly set back the Iranian nuclear weapons development program by several years, but at the expense of U.S. relations with the international community.
Yoshida faced four challenges for the Republican nomination during his reelection campaign; the strongest was from Michigan Congressman Kurt Garwood, who presented himself as a more centrist, less controversial and more electable alternative than the feisty incumbent. Yoshida countered by touting his foreign policy credentials, and benefitted from a number of missteps by the Garwood campaign as well as the winner-take-all format of many of the GOP's primary elections.
Yoshida faced Democrat Nation Hahn? and his old rival Leonard Hobbes, running as a Federalist, in the general election. Polls showed a close race between Hahn and Yoshida, which gave rise to one of the most negative presidential campaigns in history. Yoshida's supporters said Hahn would "negotiate with terrorists" and would enact the largest tax increase in history; Hahn's people accused the President of racism and suggested his real target in the war on terror was the world's Muslim population. Worried that charges of extremism were hurting his campaign, Yoshida shocked the political world by choosing Hobbes as his running mate, which led to Democratic charges of a "corrupt bargain." Yoshida won reelection in one of the closest elections in American history, taking 274 electoral votes to Hahn's 264.
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"Adam Yoshida is a hearltess warmongering and a killer of Americans. He and his war resolution can go to hell, and if the rules are suspended this body and this country effectively goes to hell with him." - James Conway on 12/14/04, during House debate over the Sudan war resolution
"Some Americans sometimes criticize the use of American military power, or types of privatization of the economy and weakening of the welfare state. The irony is, Adam T. Yoshida is the most progressive president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In that tradition, of presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, great Democrats-and Americans-all." - Ariadne Wolcott, Republican National Convention, 5/23/05
Adam Teiichi Yoshida is the first Japanese-American to serve in the office of both Vice President and President as well as the youngest President in American history (taking office just short of his forty-second birthday, he edged out Theodore Roosevelt by a few months). Adam Yoshida is a controversial figure with enemies to spare. A lightning rod as President, he has left a strong mark upon the political landscape in Washington DC and on the moon, which he wishes to annex. He also has a penchant for calling anyone who disagrees with him "unpatriotic" and is fond of calling for the deaths of "America's enemies." Usually feared or hated rather than loved, Yoshida is nonetheless a shrewd public politician who works for his agenda without apology or respite.
Born on August 8th, 1963 in Washington State to a Japanese-American father and a British mother, Yoshida attended Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Having paid for his college via enrollment in the Harvard ROTC program (which required drills at nearby MIT), Yoshida was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1985. He remained on active duty through 1989 and remained a member of the reserves through January 19, 2005- retiring with the rank of Major.
After his return to private life, Yoshida relocated to South Carolina where he earned a Master's Degree in History and worked briefly as a lecturer and author before being elected to Congress in 1994 as part of the Contract With America, developing a reputation as a shrewd partisan and a hawk among hawks.
Yoshida ran for the Republican nomination for President in the first AGS election as an ultraconservative. He campaigned almost exclusively in the South, only visiting other states to launch attacks on more moderate candidates such as Leonard Hobbes and Bill Parkerson?. Yoshida won several southern primaries including Oklahoma and his home state of South Carolina, but was unable to build enough momentum for nomination. Yet this was not his strategy- rather than try to win outright, Yoshida used the rules of the primary to accumulate delegates, and used those to form an alliance with Virginian Greg Williams which ensured Williams' nomination over Hobbes, who had previously led in delegates. This pact caused many to cry foul; the term "getting Hobbesed" comes from the deal. Yet the deal paid off, as Williams defeated Brandon Long in the general election, making Yoshida Vice President.
Yoshida quickly became one of the most vocal, influential and controversial Vice Presidents in history, as President Williams' chief foreign policy advisor and a top voice in the administration's domestic policy. Yoshida was a strong proponent of Operation Crimson Dawn, the offensive into Fallujah that drew cries of condemnation from the world for the many civilian casualties.
Soon after Crimson Dawn President Williams stepped down for health reasons, making Adam Yoshida the 45th President of the United States. He pledged to tone down his rhetoric in office, but this did not last long; instead, Yoshida put America and the world on notice as to what style of Presidency he would have when he ordered a surprise bombing of Iran. This attack, which prompted several prominent cabinent members to quit shortly before the attack, reportedly set back the Iranian nuclear weapons development program by several years, but at the expense of U.S. relations with the international community.
Yoshida faced four challenges for the Republican nomination during his reelection campaign; the strongest was from Michigan Congressman Kurt Garwood, who presented himself as a more centrist, less controversial and more electable alternative than the feisty incumbent. Yoshida countered by touting his foreign policy credentials, and benefitted from a number of missteps by the Garwood campaign as well as the winner-take-all format of many of the GOP's primary elections.
Yoshida faced Democrat Nation Hahn? and his old rival Leonard Hobbes, running as a Federalist, in the general election. Polls showed a close race between Hahn and Yoshida, which gave rise to one of the most negative presidential campaigns in history. Yoshida's supporters said Hahn would "negotiate with terrorists" and would enact the largest tax increase in history; Hahn's people accused the President of racism and suggested his real target in the war on terror was the world's Muslim population. Worried that charges of extremism were hurting his campaign, Yoshida shocked the political world by choosing Hobbes as his running mate, which led to Democratic charges of a "corrupt bargain." Yoshida won reelection in one of the closest elections in American history, taking 274 electoral votes to Hahn's 264.
Quotes:
Quotes About:
"Adam Yoshida is a hearltess warmongering and a killer of Americans. He and his war resolution can go to hell, and if the rules are suspended this body and this country effectively goes to hell with him." - James Conway on 12/14/04, during House debate over the Sudan war resolution
"Some Americans sometimes criticize the use of American military power, or types of privatization of the economy and weakening of the welfare state. The irony is, Adam T. Yoshida is the most progressive president since Lyndon B. Johnson. In that tradition, of presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, great Democrats-and Americans-all." - Ariadne Wolcott, Republican National Convention, 5/23/05
