Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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Mr. Obama has rarely employed the kind of face-to-face lobbying and arm-twisting of lawmakers that previous presidents have found to be effective. But the fight for authority to negotiate new trade deals has been different, with Mr. Obama repeatedly urging lawmakers in both parties to support him.

lol imagine if he had this much get-up-and-go during the rest of his administration

oops wrong thread

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/12/iowa-straw-poll/71116276/

The Iowa Straw Poll is no more. lol

http://i.imgur.com/IUt2kkE.jpg

right on cue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magazine/scott-walker-and-the-fate-of-the-union.html?_r=0

lol these clowns:

Walker credits Act 10 in part for the decline in Wisconsin’s unemployment rate since he took office in 2011 and has said he considers right-to-work “one more arrow in that quiver” for the creation of jobs. But since 2011, the state has fallen to 40th out of the 50 states in job growth and 42nd in wage growth, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data conducted by The Capital Times of Wisconsin. Act 10, officially called the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, was supposed to fix persistent budget shortfalls by lowering labor costs and eliminating union rules. But Wisconsin’s two-year projected budget deficit has actually increased; in May, the Legislature approved a $250 million cut to the state’s prized university system to help close the gap. Wisconsin is now among the top 10 states people move out of.

the no ho bro brouhaha continues:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/sen-lindsey-graham-responds-bro-184629920.html

the walker/GOP strategy is to do things that will raise the deficit, then cut spending on social programs, education, etc. and claim their hands were forced b/c deficits!

which is working oh so well in Kansas

HilRod having her big rally today on ROOSEVELT Island when her Hubba destroyed the last vestiges of the New Deal -- well, doesn't the symmetrical beauty of it make you want to cry?

RIP social security, 8hr work week, minimum wage, federal income tax, sorry bubba murdered u

HilRod having her big rally today on ROOSEVELT Island when her Hubba destroyed the last vestiges of the New Deal -- well, doesn't the symmetrical beauty of it make you want to cry?

Film at 11.

ROOSEVELT ISLAND SINKS INTO THE RIVER

x-posts: Isn't it pretty precisely what Naomi Klein called 'The Shock Doctrine'? It's played out all over Europe as well after the crisis. Neo-liberal answers to a neo-liberal made crisis. For some weird reason, has resulted in slowest recovery pretty much ever.

Roosevelt Island is already an active symbol of Nixon and George Romney eviscerating the federal housing program and leaving its masterplan incomplete for decades, only for private enterprise to step in with market rate crap in the Bush era. Too complicated. On the other hand it means you get an okay stretch of Manhattan as a backdrop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRZUaW0HwCM

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

jeb logo lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHdrP54UMAA4Y-g.jpg

lol no way

yep

Back in the 1980s Oregon's governor was a nice, but very drab fellow named Victor Atiyeh. Of course, his re-election lawn signs and bumper stickers all read: Atiyeh!
As if his very name conjured up uncontrollable excitement. Jeb is reminiscent of Vic.

That looks like the title card for a TGIF sitcom.

twitter think so too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHebCS7WoAECikY.png

I'm finally in sync with the twitter-brain! I feel like a scientologist who has gone clear.

it is wonderful to me how bad Jeb is at this stuff, I'm luvin it

I mean, that's the Alf font, right?

Wasn't that his Fla. logo too?

Well maybe not the same font

http://i.imgur.com/HAK8fbG.jpg

if i were him, i would constantly be like "Jeb...sounds an awful lot like JOBS if u ask me. Hilary? doesnt even come close to sounding like jobs" in my commercials, i think that wins him the presidency

I like the cut of his Jeb

^^campaign slogan

I mean, that's the Alf font, right?

― brimstead, Sunday, June 14, 2015 5:15 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both acronyms too!

fixed

http://i.imgur.com/ee7oIl0.gif

kinda reminds me of the coca-cola logo as well

exclam point means stage musical, ya dopes

lmao fox is gonna hold a second tier debate for the candidates who dont fit in the first one!

glad to see that trump will be debating somewhere, then

lol if Fox is having to create a second debate just so you can get on tv, you probably aren't going to win anything. Have some self respect, candidates!

maybe it'll be like the premier league and the best of the second tier debaters will win the right to ascend to the first group

but no one, including the candidates themselves, will know who will rise to the top tier until the host of the debate gives them a rose

weird to use an acronym that isn't all caps

Can't wait to start filling out my brackets.

http://i.imgur.com/VpLoops.png

ty 4 info

He's not running just to clinch a book deal?

I will run to win a book deal.

reminds me of lamar!

http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/E/E1/fark_E1RSV-NaHMSj_bGuCHZeom2HliI.jpg?t=hmUyFXosrFHLr38ajT5QIQ&f=1434945600

hey look they found a black guy to stand behind JE!

never seen him give a speech before. this is pretty leaden.

he sounds even more like Will Ferrell than Will-Ferrell-doin-Dubya