You sound like you were raised by Dopers.
I’ve never been prouder!
Sanders is running for the party’s nomination for President but is still unwilling to say he’s a Democrat. Feh: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-2016-democrats-121181.html
It’s not much, but O’Malley has seen a steady rise in his polling in Iowa. He’s up to 7% now. The last poll had him at 5%, the poll before that at 3%.
We’ve got our first small Gore entrance buzz:
From what I saw on the cable news networks over the weekend this looks like nothing. IIRC there’s been “hints” that Gore would run in every election since 2000 (except for 2012). I doubt that it’s any more than that this time.
How old is Gore?
60-something? Dunno.
67, younger than any of the major candidates on the Dem side.
Another Dem tosses his hat, er, collar into the race: Non-human electoral candidates - Wikipedia
We could do worse, and sometimes have.
I like his position on top of the bookcase.
I wonder if he’ll have long political coattails?
It’s almost like there has been a shift in the political landscape since the '90s. I mean, what’s this “Tea Party” business, and what does that have to do with politics? I’m not a tea drinker, but I don’t see anything wrong with parties.
I’m definitely meh on Clinton. I’d like another strong candidate. Her perpetual baggage of dishonesty and lawyering her answers is off-putting. Sure, she has the experience and knowledge to enter the White House running - she was a major advisor and contributor to Bill’s political career all the way back to his first Governor run in Arkansas. Just because her title was “First Lady”, don’t let that fool you into thinking she wasn’t an informed contributor.
But she carries a lot of baggage.
Biden seemed like a sensible candidate back in 2008, but his terms as VP have given him a reputation as someone who makes a lot of stupid remarks. I know the media up plays any kind of drama they can create, and his clownish image is as much a creation of the late night comedy set as anything else, but it’s hard to get around his penchant for making stupid off-the-cuff remarks, and his rather creepy behavior towards women.
I don’t know what to make of Bernie Sanders. Trying to read up from this thread, but he is oddly off.
Jim Webb had a few points in his favor, but his remarks about the Confederate Battle Flag… I have some southern friends who have been trying to argue the culture angle. They sincerely feel the push to get the flag down was a “Blacks trying to stick it to whites, get another thing in”. I know, trying to get sense to get past their persecution complex is tough. But there are other things I’m not solid on Webb, either.
O’Malley is getting my attention. I’d love to see him push his agenda and avoid the attacks, which appears to be his strategy despite the media’s attempt to color any conversation as an assault on Hillary. Still, he’s got a tough road to overcome her presumed lock on the party.
I suppose I can hope he gets enough attention without too much animosity that maybe he can garner the VP slot under either Clinton or Biden. That would put him in great position for later as well.
You can also rely on him to be on top of pending legislation, especially if someone is trying to read the bill at the time.
President won’t rule out an endorsement:
If the President endorsed Biden, that would be the end of it.
Timing is everything in that. Not ruling out an endorsement could mean that after one candidate build a significant lead he weighs in with an endorsement to simply end the protracted struggle. The link doesn’t rule out endorsing someone other than Biden either.
Yeah, but a Clinton endorsement would have less of an effect except to put a final nail in Biden’s coffin if he was struggling. The types of voters Obama’s endorsement would have the most effect on would be black and young voters, the former of which are behind Clinton tremendously. If Obama can get African-Americans to support gay marriage he can certainly get them to support Joe Biden.
Biden used to seem respectable when he was a senator, but as VP he’s something of a joke - a creepy old joke.
Clinton is too Republican, and not trustworthy.
The actual Republicans are either Tea Party crazy, or just stupid crazy.
Sanders wears the socialist label proudly - that’s a hard sell in the general election.
I’m curious as to why you think Biden is a joke as VP. VP’s only get attention when there is a good soundbite or visual for TV. I think he’s done done a good job behind the scenes and out the spotlight.
I get that VP’s, by the nature of their job, aren’t high profile for their positive contributions. It’s like the old joke about the guy who went off to become VP, and was never heard from again.
But there sure are a lot of goofy, not well planned statements coming from his mouth. And some creepy moments with women. And him doing finger points from the chair behind Obama at the State of the Union. Things like that don’t sing his praises.