Caroline Kennedy --- 2020

[ron l edmiston]

-- maybe i will outlast the taps bugle..

ronnie with a smile

[false_aesthetic]

It's a possibility I hadn't considered.

Bernie is certainly a front runner but I think he's too old (he's 75 now). Warren is also a contender but she's made statements that sound like she's not interested. Down the line I'm digging Kamala Harris (great record, Supreme Court possibility, young, etc.).

[nrs5000]

New blood please, I am over political dynasties

[Scott G.]

James "Mad Dog" Mattis, check out his reading list.
A reverse "7 Days in May"

[guido]

I think we are teetering a bit too close to the edge with our current cabinet of ex-generals to even think of one as a presidential candidate...

I think we need an economist who minored in climate science or a climate scientist who is a fan of of John Maynard Keynes...

[Bob Ross]

I've seen enough encouraging comments from Cory Booker (junior senator from NJ) over the past year to at least consider that he's capable of being "presidential". Other than that, I got nuttin'

...which, obviously, is the problem for many of us.

[stackie]

Bill Gates. Already has more money than God. Has given half away already. Spending his life making world a better place now. Why not give him the reins of a superpower? After electing Trump we have shown that we don't mandate political experience as a requirement.

[vertical_doug]

It 's so cute you still think there will be in election in 2020.

If there is, Trump will win with 101% of the vote.
(I'm sure some dead people will slip through to vote, darn voter fraud)

[stackie]

Thanks for making me laugh. I needed that... or maybe you' were serious.... or right....

[colker]

Whatever will be left of the Land of the Free under Trump.. Import Tax to build a wall???? Not even after Pearl Harbour such shame was proposed to congress. What next, a tax to finance concentration camps or torture centers??
Civil war is the least the US can come up with now. A good revolution now and then keeps freedom in good shape.

[colker]

Wake up!

[Corso]

Colker, you’re not even close with that wall photo.

"Land of the free” applies to US citizens, not “Come to our country illegally, and everythings free”--which is the problem, which has been happening for years, which is why many support the wall.

Can anyone from any country just walk into your country and begin to work? Kids go to school for free? Free housing? Federal and state money?

I don’t think so.

[Corso]

A good revolution now and then keeps freedom in good shape.

A non-politician elected President IS the revolution. Do you understand this?

[guido]

A non-politician elected President IS the revolution. Do you understand this?

Not when he brings in such a profoundly right wing agenda/cabinet/government. He is the antithesis of revolution.

[Corso]

Not when he brings in such a profoundly right wing agenda/cabinet/government. He is the antithesis of revolution.

A severe change is a revolution. The left seems to have patented the “rights” to the name and the romantic images that comes with it. Like all the Che posters in Obama’s campaign headquarters.

This is REAL change.

Think of it as a balance to the past 8 years of profoundly left wing agenda/cabinet/government.

[guido]

A severe change is a revolution. The left seems to have patented the “rights” to the name and the romantic images that comes with it. Like all the Che posters in Obama’s campaign headquarters.

This is REAL change.

Think of it as a balance to the past 8 years of profoundly left wing agenda/cabinet/government.

The last 8 years were at most moderate centrist. Sheesh. I really do get a kick out of the whining the right does about such modest reasonable things.

[Bob Ross]

Think of it as a balance to the past 8 years of profoundly left wing agenda/cabinet/government.

I'm not sure you get to call it an "agenda" if none of it gets accomplished due to obstruction from the opposition party. More like an "ideal".

[davids]

A non-politician elected President IS the revolution. Do you understand this?

A pathological narcissist with authoritarian fantasies and profoundly undemocratic impulses elected President IS the revolution.

I'm deeply worried that half my country chooses not to see this, believing that he will make their lives better despite all the evidence against it.


...I will, however, agree with you that the Berlin Wall is not the Mexican wall. One was built by a country to keep its citizens from escaping. The other is intended to turn a country's neighbor - and one of its largest trading partners - into a scapegoat.

You are aware, I assume, that more illegal Mexicans are leaving the US than entering? You understand that he proposed that the cost of the wall will be paid by US consumers?


"all the Che posters in Obama's campaign headquarters"... Alternative facts! You've been taking instructions from Bannon! One volunteer in a Houston campaign office in 2008 had a Cuban flag with Che's image hanging behind her desk. Here's more for anyone who's interested in truth.

[Corso]

The last 8 years were at most moderate centrist. Sheesh. I really do get a kick out of the whining the right does about such modest reasonable things.

Really, that’s hysterical compared to the whining the left has spawned over losing the election. Oh I forgot, it was the Russians...

[guido]

I'm not sure you get to call it an "agenda" if none of it gets accomplished due to obstruction from the opposition party. More like an "ideal".

But that is one of the remarkable things about the last 8 years. Nothing Obama proposed merited the level of obstruction. There was no massive swing to the left. The stuff being tossed around by the republicans is so huge in scope and scale of impact that the basic sensible stuff proposed by Obama is dwarfed in comparison.