What do you think of Benjamin for President?

[Kevin Spidel]

Just playing with the idea. I want to feel DU'ers out. It is a pipe dream, but I love her, and want to know what other DU'ers think about the POSSABILITY. But would you support Medea Benjamin for President as a DEMOCRAT in 2008 to garner a progressive antiwar base in the party again during the primaries?



About Medea Benjamin: http://www.smartvoter.org/2000/11/07/ca/state/vote/benjamin_m/bio.html

One of her greatist hits:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1327236

[Carolab]

1. WHAT? WHO? No name recognition at all. n/t

[Kevin Spidel]

2. seriously? wow...

ok.. sorry, got to get outside of the progressive bubble then. my bad. thx.

[QC]

3. She would lose 50 states. But other than that, sure, why nor? n/t

[Kevin Spidel]

9. it would not be about winning...

but building the progressive base in area's that the dems have lost. Example the anti-war vote in Wisconsin has left and turned blue congressional districts red.

it would be about brining the antiwar voice back into the democratic party.

in a swing state like Wisconsin CNN exit polling data shows 66% of Democratic Primary voters polled disapproved of the War in Iraq. Over 150,000 voters came out for Dean's antiwar message and over 27,000 for Kucinich's.

In 2000, Gore won by only a little over 5,000 voters! In contrast Nader received over 24,000 votes. Recent polling data shows: Kerry: 42%, Bush: 44%, Nader: 4%, and Unsure: 10%.

[Pepperbelly]

4. why do you hate America? nt

[Mark H]

5. That's an interesting prospect.

I doubt she would win the primary, but it would send a strong message.

[Kevin Spidel]

10. the message would be the point.

of course not the winning. but the message to the progressive voter. the fight is here in the dem party, and the dem party needs to get its ass in gear.

[Mark H]

14. Exactly.

We really need more clarification between the two parties instead of this pubbie light crap.

[MuseRider]

6. I think she is

wonderful but I also think we will need someone with a LOT of experience, someone who knows how to work the system and has been in the system to get us out of the god awful mess we are going to be in by then. It could also be that I don't know what I am talking about, maybe she has more experience than I know about?

She certainly is courageous and I really like her.

[Burried News]

7. Let's compromise, how about Robin Williams?

[Radical Activist]

8. It would be nice

if we could run a progressive candidate to rally the anti-war base who also has a chance of winning at the same time. I know there wasn't a perfect candidate to do that with last time, but I can still hope for '08.

[seeker4ever]

11. Off the top of my flat head...

I will look in to her BUT, the world IMO, is not ready for a Peace-Green progressive YET.

I am a very concerned about '08 because if the Bush junta does come completely unglued and the media discovers it can make a killing dragging their rotten, lying carcass's out for the world to see I fear we really don't have the kind of street smart muscle to regain and HOLD power. Kerry's a pussy, this we know from his possum performance in '04, Dean, maybe but he stammers and can go off the handle a little too much for daily consumption.

We need a good guy version of Cock, er, I mean Dick Cheny. Someone who is fearlessly committed, who doesn't back down, who is not afraid but rather proud of being intelligent and a liberal. Who thinks deliberation, diplomacy and maturity are NOT shameful anti American traits.

Who can do it?

[Pepperbelly]

12. actually ... since she isn't a Democrat ...

I probably won't be supporting her.

[yurbud]

13. If you heard her speak, or think about what she has done at Code Pink...

She'd blow everybody else off the stage in a debate (if she could get ON the stage).

Hillbilly Hitler art:



Blog:

[quaoar]

15. Perhaps she could try for some office

slightly below that of president first, ya think?

Why doesn't she run for Congress?

[mcscajun]

16. WHO?

Sorry, never heard of her. She'd have an enormous uphill battle to establish name recognition before she could even begin to address issues.

[GreenInNC]

17. Greens tried

The Greens tried to get her to run in 2004 and she turned it down

[FrenchieCat]

18. I just don't think so.....

and please, someone get her to a manicurist--quick!

Either you don't care about such things and don't bother...or else you care, and you keep it "well done". Let's get real!
The half ass stuff has gotta GO!

[eridani]

19. No name recognition among non-lefties

Has never held elected office. I very much like her work outside of the realm of electoral politics, though.

[fujiyama]

20. Ummm....

I've heard of her...and she's good at what she does - being an activist.

And I think she should stick to that.

[ElectroPrincess]

21. I'd vote for her ahead of Joe Biden n/t

[mandyky]

22. She is an awesome woman, but not presidential material

I have mentioned this before - I used to watch Dr. Phil every afternnoon until just prior to the Iraq invasion he had Meda on and barely let her speak. I no longer watch Dr. Phil.

For a presidential candidate, we need a former governor. Someone with no experience in government just wouldn't work.