جعجع مرشح للرئاسة كي "يكمل ما بدأه سليمان"

LOL, this Al Qaeda sympathizer is delusional. I'd prefer the Lebanese President not have the blood of thousands on his hands, thanks.

Geagea submits no plan whatsoever, just old, tired phrases while his record of obstruction belies any notion of a radical change.

Geagea is a reactionary, not a radical. He will use Lebanon's challenges to pursue a fascistic agenda that will end in tears and blood.

wow you guys are fast at commenting. you guys are just cheerleaders from afar, come to leb and see how weak your party really is

Meanwhile, the Grand General Michel Aoun is doing this:
www.al-akhbar.com/node/203904

It appears that nothing quite gets under the skin of the M8 marketing dept quartet more than the thought of someone running for president that can challenge their supreme masters. Not even the hint of his plan with respects to education and social services in the south will sway their uncompromising allegiance for iran.

Bless you Dr. Geagea and wish you success in your endeavors to rid lebanon off the cancer that is called the resistance.

Mr geagea
what are you going to do with millions of refugees in Lebanon ?

"Geagea knows he was flushed once Hariri wiped his behind."

~ Geagea distanced himself from Harri by not engaging the process for a new government when the rest of M14 did.

"Geagea's rush to nominate for Pres is purely to corner Hariri..."

~ Geagea can hardly "corner" Hariri. Geagea has nowhere to run to ... the vote in parliament for the new government showed that.

"My money is on Hariri to spell it out for Geagea & their alliance to be officially over."

~ Don't bet your seed corn. Treachery is the name of the game these days and Hariri could endorse Geagea. Geagea's resistance obstructionism would then devastate Lebanon.

@ Full-Disclosure

The KSA/usa/Israel have many "stooges" throughout the world running countries despite their people not supporting them ...

Aoun wasted a good opportunity to keep his mouth shut when he conditioned his candidacy on Mustaqbal not endorsing Geagea.

@ the_roar

"Things are not always as it seems & the General has some very astute people around him...."

Once again I hope you are correct. But until I see the reasoning behind the decision I am not changing my view.

AND ... Roar ...

Please explain the wisdom of allowing Rifi back into the government since you have knowledge on this matter ... I wait to be enlightened.

If Aoun is always 20 steps ahead of Geagea he would never have pushed for the release of Geagea from prison ...

@ the_roar

"Basically Rifi was the only person who could put out the fire that he was helping to fuel in the first place..."

Point taken ... though I think Tripoli had more to do with a Saudi decision to withdraw funding from Rifi ...

Charging Rifi with insurrection and criminal activity and then putting out a warrant for him would have worked.

The problem is not really with the candidates that are inching forward for the presidency but with us the people. If such warlords can have the courage to talk of the presidency, then it means one very obvious thing, that we the people are now truly beyond help, or even worse, beyond repair. When the different sides of the political divide cannot aspire but to people like Geagea, or Aoun or Frangieh or Amin Gemayel, and keep ignoring the wonderful the great, the professional, the clean, the decent, the honest people within our ranks, people youthful and free from the blood of wars, then as Bachir Gemayel said, "sitteen alf seneh 3aleynah". Because we are not a nation of patriots but parrots, because we are not a nation of visionaries but political subsidiaries, then one direction is left for us the people, the dump of history. It is all about elevating ourselves to better heights, not to remain in such gutter lows. What a pity.

It is working out well for Aoun ... Geagea has already put his foot in it challenging the HA both over Syria and the disposition of HA's constituency. Let's see how far Geagea overreaches ...

Suleiman was supposed to be a "situational leader" and he turned out to be a disaster ... What is needed is a president that will stand for Lebanon and not be a broker\dealer for political largesse and political cover.

Jeffrey Dahmer wanted to run for president in the U.S. at one point. GiGi should have an opportunity to feel important also..........not!!

@ the_roar

If Aoun is elected having pressed Hariri Aoun may have marginalized Geagea but how will this effect his relationship with Hariri?

Down the road this decision to force Hariri's hand may come at a price ... for Aoun or even both of them.

@ lebanonforever

Myself and roar the same person? LOL ! I gave you more credit than that ... sorry ... I'll have to remember to discount your judgement accordingly ...

Here is a suggestion for radical changes
ALL current leaders get out and let the new and honest and educated blood take over. The current politicians must go into exile so as to ensure they will never take part in any political process. They have pocketed enough money to live happily any where outside Lebanon

lebanonforever
you want moawad for president?
please tell me you're joking.. He will be eaten alive

If Lebanon was to choose freely its president it would be no doubt Geagea. A Democrat deeply devoted to State of Law and Institutions, a sharp sense of Sovereignty & Independence, desperately out of reach of the "usual-casual-standard" merchant politicking creatures we have had as politicians for decades now.
A one who calls occupation by its name as well as occupiers. And who shall fight them. And who announces it. Clear and loud.
A one free from "dhimmi-culture" sickened with brains.

What radical changes do you speak of? What exactly is your presidential program? Why do they constantly speak in riddles? I will do this and that and the country will be great again. Yes sure "7akim", of course they will! Are they all kidding me? Do they not realise that part of the problem is them? Part of the "radical changes" should be all of them packing up and leaving us all in peace. Then and only then will we see so called radical changes.

LF, all the Syrian lackeys were and remain a disaster of the most complete kind. Anything that comes after them could only be an improvement.

right on loubnani that is exactly what I have been advocating

Thank you Loubnani, which is why I keep repeating that same one name, Demianos Kattar, the sad thing is that most Lebanese will rather have a crook lead the nation. After such an excellent president as Suleiman, it is only fitting to have a man like Kattar, anything else will be seen as dropping way down, be it Geagea, and especially the old man Aoun.

right on phoenix
we new new and honest blood

I have always liked Geagea. He is a strategist. He sees things clearly that happened in the past and he can see things to the future. His drawbacks are that he has a history. His LF during its heyday in the 1980's ran roughshod over the Lebanese Christians of the Sharieye and many have long memories of LF militia boys taking liberties with their weapons and their power.
When Aoun went after them in 1989, there was not much sympathy for them due to their conduct when they had power. All of this is wrapped around Geagea's neck, fairly or unfairly and his candidacy is burdened by it.

Likewise, Aoun is a strong guy, has a loyal following and would not be a nonentity as Lebanese President. This strength is also his weakness. Hezbollah, his main ally, does not want a competing source of power in the Lebanese system. Aoun has misread Hezbollah's intention in signing the MOU. They sought Aoun in order to deny to the M14 a powerful Christian political personality and thus to weaken M14 to manageable levels.

However, this does not mean that Hezbollah will promote Aoun to a position of power. It only wanted to deny Aoun's power to the Lebanese Nationalist political coalition that is M14, not promote Aoun. Aoun only gets elected if his natural base, the Lebanese Nationalists promote him. Hezbollah is a Syrian/Iranian Nationalist faction, not a Lebanese Party.

For these reasons, I like a new face, Ziyad Baroud. He has shown credibility and competence during his time as Interior Minister. He is not corrupt and has no baggage from Lebanon's dark times 1975-1991.
It is time in Lebanon to turn the page, time to build a new state with new players and Baroud is the best of the new players.

lol he did take 20 steps at a time on his return from france when he anxiously hurried into the prison where Geagea was held to cry at his feet and beg forgiveness...

Or Ziad Rahbani?

FD weren't you preaching the 2000 bug will stop the whole world?, and that in 2012 the world was ending? see the truth with conspiracy theories is that they make you blind.. or is that the other thing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyREEP-2Evc

This is the kind of president we want, as Bachir Gemayel said. Now ya Bani, don't hit the roof, habibi enet.

How can a Lebanese President solve a crisis under the current governmental set up? The Presidency is as strong as the President who holds the office. A polarizing figure will not be able to persuade large segments of the Lebanese population regardless of the quality of his argument or the clarity of his presentation.
So you need someone who is credible and who potentially can affect Lebanese public opinion broadly enough to move the true centers of power in the Lebanese System which are the Prime Ministership, the Speaker and Hezbollah.

He's is more than just a bureaucrat really. He is also an activist, an idealist and someone who would most certainly work for the best of the country. He also has a wide popular base in the country

Check out LBC's poll here http://president-2014.com/

I fear however because of the corrupt nature of out political system he will be rendered incapable of doing anything especially that now the powers of the president are next to nill.

Let's wait and see

When would the list come out for the official presidential candidates?

Anybody other than Aoun and Geagea?

@veritas, the US is my only country as well. Some who become citizens recite the pledge of allegiance at the swear-in ceremony like parrots and don't really understand or don't want to understand what it means. They just want that passport and the privilege that it comes with but the they are the first to spit on the US or burn the US flag when they return to their native country. I wish there are more citizens like you.

Can you tell us more about this? I'd care to find out more details.