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longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Nope. At this time we have Barack Obama as president.
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 05:01 PM
Feb 2014


Oh, and by the way. Elizabeth Warren has repeated stated that she's not interested in national office and desires to serve out her term in the US Senate.

So, if not Hillary Clinton in 2016, we're going to have find somebody else, in 2016.


PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)
8. No. I don't think she'll EVER be the president we need.
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 05:34 PM
Feb 2014

We need someone that will fight for the People over big business. Someone that did NOT write the TPP or have any hand in that horseshit.

indie9197

(509 posts)
11. Yes we do. Urgently.
Mon Feb 17, 2014, 10:50 PM
Feb 2014

Unfortunately I think it is impossible for a candidate to even get the Dem nomination without the backing of the writers of the TPP. Look what happened on the Repub side with Ron Paul at their convention. Same thing will happen on the Dem side if we pick a "radical" candidate.

PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)
13. I agree with that.
Tue Feb 18, 2014, 06:42 AM
Feb 2014

It doesn't mean Clinton would be good for us though. She's just one of the few nails left to bang into the coffin of what was once a great nation.

wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
17. SHE. AIN'T. RUNNING
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 12:01 PM
Feb 2014

Elizabeth Warren isn't running. I get why people persist with this fantasy, but it's nothing more than a fantasy. Warren had to be dragged in kicking and screaming into the Massachusetts Senate race, a geographically small state in which she could sleep in her own bed every night. If you barely have the fire to run for Senate, then you absolutely don't have the fire to mount a brutal presidential campaign. And even if she did, all she'd have to do is look at the polling (73-9!) to realize she'd have a million better things to do with her time and her donors' money. SHE. AIN'T. RUNNING. ~KOS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024526420

DFW

(54,378 posts)
15. Amen to that
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 03:00 AM
Feb 2014

If we let the Senate go and give Bonehead another term as speaker because we were all obsessing about 2016, then we deserve whatever misery befalls us.

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
16. The House is a lost cause, but I'm really afraid for the Senate.
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 11:35 AM
Feb 2014

The RW super PACs are pouring money into the Senate races, more money than ever and we are fighting over hypothetical 2016 races.

Gee........

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
14. If she is the Democratic nominee in 2016, I will gladly vote for her
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 12:31 AM
Feb 2014

Do I know if I want her to be the Democratic nominee yet? Absolutely not because I haven't seen the rest of the field.

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