Prediction time; who will be #45?

[DaveinJapan]

Okay, just for fun, who will be the next Prez?

It'll be fun to revisit years from now and see if anyone nailed it. Oh, and to keep this relatively lighthearted and out of the realm of morbid speculation, "Joe Biden" is not an acceptable answer.

(I'll give MY pick in a bit, but I'm still undecided so I have to think about it some more and read some of the answers given)

[begin_within]

1. Dennis Kucinich

Oh wait, this is America.

[vadawg]

7. lol i think sarah palin has more chance than dennis

[Mira]

62. I will always always always vote for Dennis if given the chance.

[timeforpeace]

2. Jim Webb

[spanone]

3. Barack Obama

[Motown_Johnny]

6. you can't be 44 and 45.... 2 terms still makes him 44

[WeDidIt]

15. He COULD be 44 and 46, though

Grover Cleveland was both 22 and 24, after all.

[Motown_Johnny]

24. True... if he lost in 2012 and won again in 2016 or 2020 etc, but he won't lose

[imdjh]

44. He will if he doesn't get some dues paid up soon. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Al Franken

[Mojambo]

5. Brian Schweitzer. n/t

[LAGC]

13. Ooh. A pro-gun Western Dem. Now thats a winning ticket!

[obliviously]

8. At some point in the near future

The presidency will change and we will become ruled by the UN like a state. Now if you will excuse me I need to polish my tinfoil hat!

[Avalux]

9. LOL. You'll give your pick in a bit.

Alrighty then. :eyes:

[DaveinJapan]

26. Something wrong with that?

I just wanted to read what some people wrote first, to consider all the options.

Is that bad?

[Deja Q]

10. Sacha Cohen, with two VPs (NSFW pic, but you probably guessed that already)

:(

[Initech]

59. Borat can be the UN ambassador.

[liberaltrucker]

11. Al Franken '16!!!!!

Hey, a short stint in the Senate worked before!

:fistbump:

[recoveringdittohed]

32. Right state, different Senator

I'll guess Klobuchar "16.

[Yupster]

35. Nah

Impossible to win with an unusual name.

[TuxedoKat]

12. Mark Warner

[Alexander]

73. Agreed. Maybe Brian Schweitzer.

[TuxedoKat]

74. He was my other choice!

I think Brian Schweitzer would be great too. There are so many people who would be good candidates in
our party. Interesting thing about Brian Schweizer I just learned -- he speaks Arabic.

He and Mark Warner are less than a year apart in age, 9/55 and 12/54 respectively.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Whoever the money bosses decide they'll back.

"History has tried to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians.  Now, to go and stick one at the very head of government couldn’t be wise." - Mark Twain

[FLAprogressive]

+1

[Warpy]

31. We have a winner

Few men wake up one morning and decide to run for president and most of them don't get very far unless they're comedians on a popular TV show (RIP, Pat Paulsen).

They're fast tracked in office as consortia of businesses and labor court them to run.

The best we can do is choose bankers over arms dealers, in other words.

[SammyWinstonJack]

77. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Just like this past 'election'.

[WeDidIt]

16. Mark Warner n/t

[zorahopkins]

17. Michelle Obama

I hope that the First Female President is Michelle Obama.

She's talented, intelligent, forceful, and committed to Hope.

[vadawg]

20. gag, just shoot me now

[zorahopkins]

23. She Would Be GREAT!

Come now, Michelle Obama would be a WONDERFUL President.

I just LOVE her, and I HOPE she runs, because if she does, she WILL be elected.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. I was thinking SCOTUS, assuming he gets a pick late in his 2nd term

[SharonRB]

27. I don't think he could legally appoint Michelle to SCOTUS

There are nepotism laws since JFK appointed RFK as AG.

[SharonRB]

28. I agree she'd be great, but I just don't see it happening

At least not right after his two terms.

[donheld]

46. What's your problem with Michelle?

you like Sarah better?

[vadawg]

47. explained it before countless times, just dont like her at all, like justa bout everybody better

[donheld]

48. So you do like Sarah better

[vadawg]

49. well i dont hold the same dislike for palin as i do for michelle obama if thats what your asking

hope this makes it clear to you....

[SammyWinstonJack]

78. :-)

:spray:

[imdjh]

18. Hillary Clinton

[Yupster]

36. She'd be my guess too

Don't know how old she is though.

[imdjh]

43. She'll hang in there long enough. I think we can be certain of that. nt

[Blasphemer]

45. I third that. She'll be pretty old (69) but Reagan pulled it off

I just don't think she'll let the dream go but I also think it'll be a one term Presidency (mirroring Bush's post-Reagan Presidency).

[ContinentalOp]

66. She'll never win.

She may be the nominee but we will have a Republican president that year.

[DURHAM D]

19. Howard Dean if Obama keeps blowing health care reform. nt

[FLAprogressive]

21. Kucinich, Feingold, Sanders, or Dean would be ideal, but if it's a Dem it will probably be some

DLC/Conservadem like Mark Warner or Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[madokie]

22. Oklahoma's gov

Brad Henry. Very good and laid back and smart as a whip. Actually we're hoping he will take idiot inhofes or coburns senate seat.

[lady raven]

72. Brad Henry is a nice guy, and I'm really thankful just to have a Dem governor at all, but

I don't think he is charismatic enough to win the Presidency.

[madokie]

76. I don't know about that

cause we were being told that Steve Largent was going to be our next governor and all we had to do was shut up and go through the motions of electing him. Brad won and with him Oklahoma won big time. I love the governor the man is. I sure hope he goes for either coburn or inhofe's seat, he would do myself and my fellow Okies proud. A good man Brad Henry is.

[SharonRB]

29. Probably someone we would never even consider right now

or someone who isn't even on the scene yet in a big way.

[tridim]

30. I'd really like to see President Boxer, but I don't think it'll happen. Maybe Gavin Newsom?

[BolivarianHero]

37. That would piss everyone off...

The left will hate that he donated to Dumbya's campaign and that he's a centrist who happens to favour gay rights.

The morans will hate him because he happens to favour gay rights.

[ContinentalOp]

67. Not a chance (on Newsom that is. probably Boxer either).

I'm not even convinced that Newsom would win our state governor's race. I think if he's the nominee we'll have another Republican governor.

[Javaman]

33. and here I was thinking who was going to be post #45 on this thread...

:hide:

[jclincali]

34. My guess is someone who has run before.

I don't think we're going to be seeing a rising star in 2016 - from either party.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. Robobama

[RFKHumphreyObama]

39. A few things

Why is Joe Biden not an acceptable answer? It's not out of the realm of possibility that the Vice President will end up succeeding the President. FWIW, I don't think it will be him but stranger things have happened

Also I'd make the point that it is quite probable thaqt the next US President is someone whose name we are not familiar with and perhaps someone who is not a major player on the political scene yet. After all, whom out of all of us would have answered "Barack Obama" in response to a question on "who will be #44" in July 2001? Or for that matter in July 2004?

[DaveinJapan]

51. Well yeah, I understand your point but

he is pretty old and I believe he said he had no plans to run. anyway, sure if you think Biden in 2016 that's a different story, I just wanted to avoid the unthinkable, meaning he became President without running. ;-)

As for the "unknown" factor, that's part of why I brought up this thread...it would be interesting to see if anyone knows of some unknown/young politicians around who have some of that Barack Obama vibe to them. As I'm not currently residing in the States, it's hard to learn what's going on with local politics.

[dysfunctional press]

40. jeb bush.

BOO!

[Life Long Dem]

41. Yeah Chavez and Obama were talking.

What if Obama stayed President as long as we all want?

[alfredo]

42. Crake

[omega minimo]

50. Ralph Nader

[scheming daemons]

52. Bwahahahaha..... only if there's 1% turnout and it's all Naderite whack jobs....

[omega minimo]

53. Here's how it will be:

All the flaccid, LIHOP "corporate government is just all right with me" will get a wake up call somewhere b/w the gas pump, the golf course and the pension fund.

The actual working people who have been warning about it all along will get desperate enough to organize.

The bullshit "Blame Nader" bullshit of the 2000's will be focused on, as the scam that it was and the final nail in America's economic coffin that it was.

Corporations will be seen for the evil they perpetrate.

The anti-corporate spokesmodel will be revered.

Nader ages well.

Voila!!

[scheming daemons]

54. Even people who agree with Nader on most issues don't like him...

Kucinich has a better chance that him... and Kucinich doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.

[omega minimo]

55. Your imagination doesn't include all the other insanity that will ensue

[scheming daemons]

56. Because it won't... we'll have a weak recovery for the next 18-24 months...

...then in 2011 and 2012, the economy will be doing well enough to guarantee Obama a second term.... something like 7.5% unemployment on election day 2012.

By then... we'll be well on our way to transitioning to a green economy, we'll be out of Iraq, and the world will be a better place.

;-)

[omega minimo]

64. and you base that on what?

:popcorn:

[ContinentalOp]

68. Very interesting. That's exactly how I see things playing out.

Despite all of the Obama hatred around here recently, I'm sure everyone agrees that he's no dummy. He must realize that if he can't convincingly say that he's turned the economy around and gotten us out of Iraq by the next election then he's not going to get a second term.

[earth mom]

57. Kucinich or Gore or both on the same ticket.

:woohoo:

[Greyhound]

58. George Clooney. n/t

[omega minimo]

65. Craig Ferguson, baby. He's a bloody citizen and everything.

Plus a non nimrod.

[Greyhound]

69. But not a natural citizen, he can't be Prez.

Are you saying George C. is a nimrod?

[omega minimo]

70. He's natural enough. GC is too narcissistic. CF has his tongue firmly in chic.

[Initech]

60. Whoever the health care industry and big pharma hires as their new spokesperson.

[Liberal_in_LA]

61. Palin

just kidding

[proteus_lives]

63. If the election was held today on DU.....

MJ's corpse would probably win.

[LAGC]

71. Jesse Ventura

If the economy is still shitty in 2012, and the Repukes put up a detestable candidate, a third-party victory is very possible.

Hey, he pulled it off in Minnesota, someone with "star power" could do it at the national level...

[Horse with no Name]

75. This is something to definitely think about

I mean seriously!
We are only into the first 6 months of #44. I thought the last election cycle was too short too.
Can't be too prepared, can we?

[DaveinJapan]

79. Okay, now that I've seen some of the potentials...

I'll go with Michelle Obama...

Caveat...if she doesn't wanna run, Al Franken then.

[arcadian]

80. Some Republican who is barely on the radar right now.

[HOLOS]

81. Barack Obama...