Five Reasons No Progressive Should Support Hillary Clinton

Too many is how many.

Anyway...supposedly this one is a reincarnation of Foofie. Maybe we shouldn't even count him as a new one.

I wonder how many double posters there are here using two or three different persona? They must be real proud of their original names?

Not sure why so many people come back in so many other personae, Rabel. I post under only one name...and I cannot imagine ever playing the sock puppet game.

I suspect only the very insecure do that.

That kind of thing, by the way, helped lead to the death of Abuzz.

And then the Bush WhiteHouse let treaties lapse and just unilaterally pulled out of others.

And you blame Obama and not the Tepublican Congress that has outdone a NeoCon GWB administration?

At least get your facts straight.

I've had I think about two variations on my name for the simple fact that I lost my password and couldn't remember it, was easier to just get a new account. If I tried to disguise myself with a new name, I doubt very much I would pull it off, plus, it would be just too tiresome to be constantly conniving.

Lincoln Chafee Explores Presidential Run as a Democrat
Source: New York Times

With no advance warning, the Democratic race for president got a surprise new contender on Thursday.

Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor who has a strong relationship with President Obama, announced his news in a web video and in an interview with Rhode Island Public Radio.

In the video, Mr. Chafee says almost immediately that as a United States senator he voted against the Iraq war — something that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton supported. It was a position that was used against Mrs. Clinton in the Democratic primary leading up to the 2008 election against Mr. Obama.

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Unlike Jim Webb, the former Virginia senator, or Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, both of whom have telegraphed their intentions to consider running for president for months, Mr. Chafee’s news caught political observers off guard.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/04/09/lincoln-chafee-explores-presidential-run-as-a-democrat/


Awesome. I liked Chafee.

Interesting

I like him and I haven't heard of any feet of clay.

Why (California Lt. Gov.) Gavin Newsom should run for president
Opinion by Bill Katovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, April 7 2015

If the Democratic Party really wants to hold on to the White House following President Obama’s exit, it needs to look past Hillary Rodham Clinton. The best hope for victory is California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Newsom hasn’t publicly expressed any interest in running for president in 2016. Instead, his eye is on becoming governor in 2019. Yet, if by some cosmic roll of the dice Newsom does decide to declare his candidacy for president, all this gauzy talk of Clinton’s inevitability and lock on the Democratic nomination will take a huge hit. Dare I say game-changer?

Voters love Clinton in liberal bastions such as the Bay Area, yet it’s doubtful if she will be able to inspire a passionate get-out-to-vote movement elsewhere. Female voters clearly have a strong affinity for Clinton, but younger voters will be leery of someone her age (she’s 67), who isn’t tech savvy and has a queasy relationship with e-mail and computer servers. Her resume is long and distinguished, though it’s wishful thinking to believe Clinton represents the nation’s future in the same sense that the Republican Party’s fresh crop of contenders — Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul — do for the GOP base.

Newsom wrote the book on how citizens can reshape their government in a digital age (“Citizenville” was published in 2013). In 2004, Newsom took a risky, courageous gamble with his political career when, as San Francisco mayor, he directed the city clerk’s office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law. But Newsom’s political instincts were dead on then. It’s time for him to act boldly again.

CONTINUES: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Why-Gavin-Newsom-should-run-for-president-6184317.php

Good. It's about time that the Democrats ran a real Republican, instead of all the crypto-Republicans they usually run.

Hillary Clinton Moving Toward 2016 Presidential Campaign Announcement


ABC News - ‎6 minutes ago‎

Hillary Clinton is moving toward announcing her candidacy for president of the United States as soon as this weekend, according to Democrats familiar with her plans.

Now we see if spending a ton of money on marketing will stop her long slide in popularity.....

Ok, that cheers me up somewhat.

Editing my editing..
I need to read more about him, but his declaring a plan to run is heartening.

That and the lying screw balls who refused to acknowledge facts. Sorry oralboy.

Huh???

Bill Clinton was a good moderate pro-business Republican. Barrack Obama is center/right Republican President. ACA is a Republican approach to healthcare.

Chaffee was a Progressive Republican who will make a good center/left Democrat. Similar to Hillary.

Hillary Clinton is a center/left Democrat? Yeah, right. Go ahead, pull the other one.

Hillary is center left. I didn't say 'good'. I believe she is too "pragmatic" and makes too many compromises to further herself as opposed to her agenda. She's definitely left of Bill, but she backed a lot of Bush's crap to keep herself seen as engaged in conditions on the ground as an effective Senator and not be seen as running for higher office the whole time.

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/10/8381711/elizabeth-warren-corruption

Warren would be an infinitely better choice for the D's and for America than Hillary.

And she's conservative enough to be a Republican.

I'd vote for her either way. But I want to see her finish her term as Senator and I believe she can be more effective in Congress right now.

Don't often bump your posts up, but this one needed a bump.