Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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.

yes a female president would be great, but as an argument for clinton as a good candidate it is pretty weak

i mean i would fucking love a hispanic president but that's not a reason i'd support ted cruz

how are you defining "foreign affairs"?

clinton >>>> obama re foreign affairs tho.

I can't even... Obama had two stupid wars to end, killed Bin Laden etc. I hate the drone warfare thing like nobody's business but Clinton didn't have shit to deal with besides Bosnia, which he didn't exactly handle well imo

a female president would be great, 99% of presidents will share 99% of the same policies, and hillary is the only woman likely to be president = clinton is a good candidate

argument against clinton is that from a legislative stand point he spent a lot of his time enacting cruel republican policies that helped to shred what little safety net we had left for no good reason except he thought being a centrist was very cool and smart, its true too

btw lol http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8220537/al-gore-president-2016

i mean i would fucking love a hispanic president but that's not a reason i'd support ted cruz

tbf he's Canadian

lagoon otm

i'm not going to go into a whole spiel about what i think is wrong about obama's foreign affairs yet again. if you don't think obama is responsible for the turmoil in egypt, libya, iraq, syria, ukraine, etc, okay fine. we have different povs there.

that Vox article this morning inspired more if-only speculation from friends and wistful exclamations about What Might Have Been.

argument against clinton is that from a legislative stand point he spent a lot of his time enacting cruel republican policies that helped to shred what little safety net we had left for no good reason except he thought being a centrist was very cool and smart, its true too

I'm wondering if it would've been worse if Dole had had a chance in '96.

I would vote for Gore but c'mon

Clinton basically fulfilled Reagan's dreams much like Ike consolidated the New Deal's advances.