Chris Dodd for President?

[SaveElmer]

According to the Washington Post he is exploring the possiblity.

I know he will be dismissed here as another compromised DC insider. But I would venture to guess not too many outside of DC and Connecticut have really seen this guy much

He should not be underestimated. He is extremely intelligent, an excellent speaker, and very quick on his feet in a debate. Also comes off as a mature, sober, intelligent individual...the anti-Bush!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

ed: for spelling

[wakeme2008]

1. I would have to see a lot more

info on him. But I did like him during the Whitewater hearings.

[saltpoint]

2. 'Appreciated your third paragraph especially, SaveElmer, because it

paints Dubya as a whiney brat and a reliable Democrat like Dodd as a seasoned grown-up.

Yes. I think that's more than fair, and Dodd is as smart and capable as you say he is.

I could live with him in the White House, sure.

[sharp_stick]

3. I could easily live with Dodd

He seems like a decent person and I agree with more of his positions than I disagree with. I think he'd make a very good President.

I don't know if he'd enjoy the job much though, could you imagine being the poor bugger that had to clean up the mess Bush is leaving this country in? Mind you, putting anybody with a brain in there would probably go a long way to gaining a little bit of world respect back for the office.

[madinmaryland]

4. In the 20 years I lived in CT, I always liked Chris Dodd.

He was really a no-nonsense type guy and also as you have described him. He is not known at all outside of New England.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. I would vote for him for these reasons but....

>>>>He is extremely intelligent, an excellent speaker, and very quick on his feet in a debate. Also comes off as a mature, sober, intelligent individual...the anti-Bush!>>>>


I'm not sure that a majority of my fellow citizens would. These qualities describe Gore and Kerry and we are told by the pundits that many people... perhaps most people...don't NOT want a president like this precisely *because* they don't want to be governed by someone who's smarter than *they* are.

Hence Bush, hence Reagan.

So say the pundits. Perhaps they're right. If we're going to find someone smart amongst the DEM ranks let's look for someone like Clinton who can at the same time "feel yer' pain".

[AndyA]

6. I don't know much about Dodd, but at this point I think a

crack HO down on the corner could do a better job than Bush. At least they'd know what it's like to have to fight to live. Bush's reality and everyone else's reality are two different things.

I'm going to find out more about Chris Dodd, we need to encourage new people to get involved, the ones we have sure aren't doing their job.

[skipos]

7. It isn't the end all be all but I'd sure love to have a good candidate

who is NOT a senator (as there are reasons why they haven't been elected president in 40 years) but IS from a flippable red state (as we can use all the EVs we can get). I don't know much about him... so I admit he could be great for us.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Dodd is responsible for Bushites now controlling our election system with

TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code and virtually no audit/recount controls, in the new electronic election theft system installed throughout the country in the 2002-2004 period. He is the third architect of the so-called "Help America Vote Act" (HAVA), along with the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney. Together these three diverted $4 billion badly needed by Halliburton and Fatherland Security, to higher priority Bush Buds, Diebold and ES&S, the first headed by a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser, who promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush-Cheney in 2004," and the second initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson, who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). These are the people who counted 80% of the nation's votes in 2004, under a veil of corporate secrecy. Thanks in large part to Christopher Dodd, who headed the snowjob that was done on other Democratic leaders which combined with anthrax in the mail to turn them all into mushbrains.

If you want to reward Dodd for this, the worst piece of legislation ever passed by Congress, and the most traitorous act ever committed by a Democrat, by pushing him for the Democratic nomination for president, that is your right. But I think you should know that your vote means shit because of him, and it won't be your vote, my vote or any Democratic votes that "wins' him the nomination or the White House. It will be Diebold and ES&S that determines both.

[emulatorloo]

9. Dodd stymies other Democrats efforts to truly ensure fair elections

So I too am not comfortable with Dodd.

[SaveElmer]

10. I'll have to look into this...but I was not pushing Dodd...

I was simply noting a story in the Post and giving my opinion as to his chances...