Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

http://luckovich.blog.ajc.com/2015/03/10/311-luckovich-hillarys-pen-pal/

hes said a lot of stupid gaffey things already which doesnt matter yet but doesnt bode well for him

may i introduce you to a coupla presidents named Bush

plz plz 'shop a photo of Thrillary in a NASCAR jacket with all her corp pimps' logos on it.

Hillary's email circus is actually making me excited about the election. This issue won't take her down.

sometimes i trick myself into thinking that lots of people are disappointed with the way the democratic side of this is shaping up, but then i see polls like this:

http://i.imgur.com/hLr7KvD.jpg

http://newscms.nbcnews.com/sites/newscms/files/15110_nbc-wsj_march_poll_3-9-15_release.pdf

i guess it's more accurate to say that lots of people ARE disappointed (21% of likely democratic voters is a large number), but not enough to make a difference.

I'd be surprised to hear that a majority of Republicans would favour their past (and future) Clown Car Season to a nice smooth coronation.

"disappointment" is a helluva drug

The week before the email story broke Hillary pocketed $300,000 for a Silicon Valley speech she gave to “women in technology.” Her campaign—no matter what the pundits say, and however she may pay for it, she has one—spun it as a preview of her 2016 ‘message.’ If so, she has a mountain of work to do. A month after the president struck a new and widely applauded populist chord in his State of the Union, Clinton managed to sound like the old consensus-seeking Obama. She actually vowed to restore bipartisanship in words so corny it hurt to hear them: “I’d like to bring people from right, left, red, blue, get them into a nice warm purple space where everybody is talking and where we’re actually trying to solve problems.”

She recited the usual Democratic economic litany but took care not to offend the odd technology billionaire who might be listening. Given the venue, one might expect as much, but weeks later she offered up the same riff, worse actually, at an Emily’s List gala where she called for a “new participation age” and for America to “help more people start small businesses and invest in the…entrepreneurs that will create the new jobs of tomorrow.” Also, Hillary said she’d cut “red tape.”

The Emily’s List audience was worshipful and Hillary tried her hardest to be more spontaneous and “real.” That meant two lame pantsuit jokes, another about her hair and one about the color of that Internet dress. Talking about Sen. Barbara Mikulski she said, “We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues … for hardworking families they’re one and the same.” Listening to it all a second time, I felt bad for her.

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/15/hillarys_meritocracy_problem_the_gop_will_paint_her_as_an_elitist_and_the_right_can_make_that_charge_stick/

“We have to work out macro issues and also macaroni and cheese issues.

- Abraham Lincoln

The uniting color she's thinking of is not purple it's green.

hillary clinton is the fucking worst and this campaign is going to be terrible

no, the fucking worst is going to be all your friends who don't really follow politics and are #ReadyForHillary

No doubt about it, this is gonna be a grim campaign, akin to bush v. Dukakis

Yoo-hoo! Hillary!

Ever since Republicans took control of the House four years ago, attempts to court Republicans have mostly failed while simultaneously dividing Democratic voters. Obama’s most politically successful maneuvers, by contrast, have all been unilateral and liberal. “Whenever we contemplate bold progressive action,” Pfeiffer said, “whether that’s the president’s endorsement of marriage equality, or coming out strong on power-plant rules to reduce current pollution, on immigration, on net neutrality, you get a lot of hemming and hawing in advance about what this is going to mean: Is this going to alienate people? Is this going to hurt the president’s approval ratings? What will this mean in red states?” And yet this hesitation has always proved overblown: “There’s never been a time when we’ve taken progressive action and regretted it.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/dan-pfeiffer-exit-interview.html

i'm so #readyforhillary

figures, it's been awhile since she hugged Mrs Arafat

they kissed, bro

suha isn't so bad tho, she was just married to a monster

i just think that it's about time the US has a female president and all the better that she's the better half of the US's greatest POTUS administration since 1969

I don't think michelle Obama is gonna run tho

do u really feel like michelle is heavily involved in the obama wh?

not more than Valerie Jarrett.

"Millions of Americans are realizing this isn't working," Cruz said to supporters in New Hampshire. "The Obama economy is a disaster. Obamacare is a train wreck and the Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind -- the whole world's on fire."

"The world is on fire?" a young girl, whom the Washington Post identified as 3-year-old Julie Trant, said to chuckles from the audience.

"The world is on fire, yes. Your world is on fire," Cruz said as he turned to the girl, who was sitting on her mother's lap.

"But you know what? Your mommy's here and everyone's here to make sure the world you grow up in is even better," he added to applause.

"My Little Pony? The Backyardigans? They all live in a world that is on FIRE."

i just think that it's about time the US has a female president

where were you for Cynthia McKinney and Jill Stein, tho

hillarys career is kinda funny, like shes only won one election ever and that was at least in part due to her fame, she might just not be a natural vote getter

nepotist AND corporatist icon

yeah, how come i didn't vote for POS Dieudonné-supporting Cynthia McKinney? oh, maybe bc i'm not quite as big a fan of anti-semites as u are.

So crazy that the world is on fire i wonder if that has anything to do with our defense budget in any way.

I'll bet Mordy voted for Geraldine Ferraro if he was old enough (but I don't think he was -- I wasn't)

the first election i was old enough to vote in was Bush/Kerry

you are a fan of anyone who will bomb the shit out of Likud's least fav nations tho

I'm unsurprised that 63% of Dems are satisfied with their "choices," that's why I don't like toi be around large numbers of Democrats at pointless shit like that climate march last fall.

lol that's your defense for supporting a pseudo holocaust denier, "but u wah wah wah."

Gerry was the last Dem I voted for for Veep. I'm rather ashamed, mobbed up as she and her foul husband were.

I don't know much about Dieudonné. I see that story is from this month; time-machine your way back to 2008 and I'll consider staying home instead.

HRC is a full-on imperial murderer, so i don't quite see your moral high ground.

also, bye thread

also, bye thread

There it is.

bye board is next. and never been closer.

a full-on imperial murderer:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Terrain_Armored_Transport_in_Star_Wars.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/All_Terrain_Armored_Transport_in_Star_Wars.JPG

bye board is next. and never been closer.

don't tease me

she's the better half of the US's greatest POTUS administration since 1969

this is a bit rich

A low bar

Wow better than Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush? So amazing

Vote for this one they are better than Richard Nixon.

obama is better anyway

^^^

Obama spent a significant portion of his administration cleaning up Clinton's fuckups

ie, healthcare, finance regulation/wall st bailout, DOMA etc

I'm just hoping for a 3rd party candidate who wants to curb foreign aid/defense and spend money on infrastructure/domestic issues and is not afraid of being called a commie by Fox news.

i give obama + bill clinton a draw re domestic economy (the latter had a stronger one but he didn't have to clean up after GWB). clinton >>>> obama re foreign affairs tho.