2016 prediction: Hillary Clinton will win, appoint Barack Obama to high court -

[riversedge]

Oh, I do hope this comes to pass.

Each month has a prediction......




AP
2016 prediction: Hillary Clinton will win, appoint Barack Obama to high court -- Carl P. Leubsdorf

CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News 5 hrs ago 5

DALLAS — It’s time to forget last year’s forecast that Rand Paul would lead the Republican field and look ahead at what’s to come in 2016................................


..........OCTOBER: Ryan announces neutrality in presidential race. In final debate, Clinton, 68, calls Romney, 69, and Trump, 70, “voices of the past.”

NOVEMBER: Cubs capture their first World Series since 1908! Clinton wins presidency, beating Bill’s numbers with 45 percent to Trump’s 36 and Romney’s 19. She carries Ohio, Florida and heavily Hispanic Western states, gaining 403 electoral votes. Trump has 129. Romney carries Utah. Trump claims disrespect. Democrats defeat all six Senate Republicans backing Romney, gaining 52-48 majority. GOP loses 26 House seats, retaining slim 221-214 majority.

DECEMBER: In unity bid, President-elect Clinton offers Trump a job as trade representative and for Romney, the ambassadorship to Russia. Both refuse. Republican Chairman Reince Priebus forms a committee to examine GOP future. Outgoing VP Joe Biden is named Secretary of State. U.S. and Russia push for a Syria unity conference. Clinton picks outgoing Obama for Scalia’s Supreme Court seat. Ryan resumes Ways and Means Committee chair, and the House GOP deadlocks on a new speaker.

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[Alfresco]

2. Justice Obama...I like it.

[Cha]

6. Oh, he'd be Good.. but, I wonder if he would even want it?

[cascadiance]

16. Perhaps he'd rather serve on an ISDS court who he wants to have more power than our courts!

Perhaps Hillary will be happy to oblige when she signs in more trade deals to make such courts more global then too.

[MeNMyVolt]

3. I would so love that, but I doubt it.

Hope I'm proved wrong.

[comradebillyboy]

4. The GOP donor class intervening to keep the nomination

away from Trump and Cruz is not so far fetched. Would they pick Jebbie or Mitt? The shit fits from Trump and Cruz would be priceless. Personally I predict Ted Cruz will lead the GOP to a defeat of Goldwater magnitude.

[NV Whino]

5. I don't think Obama wants a Supreme Court position

I think he's tired and wants to spend time with his family.

My prediction is, he will be the least visible past President in our lifetime.

P.S. Don't blame him.

[JoePhilly]

12. Less visible than W ????????

Absolutely impossible.

[NV Whino]

15. Good point.

[Cha]

7. Obama’s Retirement Plan: Help Black Kids..

After he leaves the White House, friends say the president will return to his passion: helping African Americans through his My Brother's Keeper Alliance.

What is in Barack Obama’s heart? Underneath that cool exterior, it can be hard to tell. When he leaves office in 2017, he will be a fit 55-year-old with decades of productive life likely ahead of him. How will he use them?

I went to the Bronx on Monday with a hunch that Obama was about to tell us; and I wasn’t disappointed.

At the risk of emphasizing his status as a lame duck, Obama announced the establishment of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, a nonprofit outgrowth of the My Brother’s Keeper program in the White House that the president announced more than a year ago, with little fanfare from a jaded press and public.

More..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/05/how-obama-will-spend-the-rest-of-his-life.html

Those who speculate President Obama won't be doing anything don't know him yet they act like they do.

[JoePhilly]

11. Could he do both??

He'd be helping African American kids AND causing the RW to twitch in apoplectic rage .... WIN WIN in my book!!

[Cha]

13. Sure.. you know the President.. he's one of those great multi-taskers.

I know who doesn't know him.. anyone who would say he'll do nothing after he leaves office.. now that's a side spliter.



Happy New Year, JoePhilly!

[riversedge]

18. Thanks for post. I had not seen that.

[Cha]

21. You're Welcome!

[snot]

8. If only Obama actually understood Constitutional law . . .

I don't care if he taught it. He voted for FISA and continues to support unrestrained surveillance, executive authority to assassinate US citizens without due process, etc.

If that's the Constitution, it's not one I recognize.

I'm not saying Obama's the worst Pres. we've had, but.

Whoever Bernie might appoint, I'm pretty sure I'd prefer them.

[JoePhilly]

10. It sounds like you do not know when the FISA court was established.

Or that Obama has used the FISA court legally.

But hey ... if Bernie supporters want to attack Obama with this kind of nonsense, go for it.

[snot]

14. I know enough to know that this is NOT due process:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email .

[Cha]

22. Oh they always want to attack President Obama just like BS does. It's going to get them

exactly nowhere.

Love it!

[JI7]

9. that would be limiting to what Obama could do

[Renew Deal]

17. That would be amazed by but...

I don't think he could get approved in the Senate.

[cali]

19. Ridiculous and not a chance. She may win the White House

No way she'll appoint Obama to the SCOTUS.

[Motown_Johnny]

20. It is unlikely Pres. Obama will be appointed to SCOTUS.

The only possible reasoning behind that is that he will eclipse Bill Clinton in prestige within the party and Hillary doesn't want that to happen

That appointment would muzzle someone we need as a spokesperson and advocate for our "liberal agenda".

I would be fine with Michelle though.