Dropping Like Flies

I really like Elizabeth Warren, but she said she isn't running

azaghal1981 wrote:
She would also help weapons manufacturers/dealers' profits soar by continuing the cycle of endless war (she's essentially John McCain when it comes to foreign policy) and as GGW said, be Wall Street's ideal candidate.

I voted for Jill Stein in the last election and will most likely vote for the Green Party candidate in 2016. Sure, they have no chance of winning but their worldview/ideals are closest to mine and that counts for something. We've been conditioned to vote for the lesser of two evils forever.

Nobody cares who you vote for… whoever you vote for will get less than 1% of the vote

you're the classic TYPE who voted for Nader in 2000… how did that work out for you?  you're always carping about the horrible US foreign policy  and yet its your vote that makes that possible…

Got wrote:
I really like Elizabeth Warren, but she said she isn't running

Even if one likes her, which I do, I'd hardly say she is qualified to be President.

What in her background makes her qualified?

People will say she has the same experience as President Obama but he had been a state legislator for many years BEFORE becoming Illinois' Senator to the US Congress….

Moreover, to the Warren supporters who I hate to say it but seem not to have given any thought to it other than the "I like her": she did not run a campaign that inspires much confidence in defeating Brown in a very liberal state…

Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

hutch wrote:
Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

I'm installing 10-1 odds on the eventual candidate coming out onto the dais to Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.

Julian, wrote:

hutch wrote:
Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

I'm installing 10-1 odds on the eventual candidate coming out onto the dais to Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.

what else is there??

spirit of 76 by Ween
Punk Rock Girl by Dead Milkmen
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
Philadelphia Lawyer by Woody Guthrie, also Flatt & Scruggs, Willie Nelson, Neil Young

ok…none of these would work…

The Bitch Is Back if Hillary gets the nomination.

But seriously anything that baby boomers remember that has a general theme of better days ahead is in play.

TSOP

Julian, wrote:
The Bitch Is Back if Hillary gets the nomination.

But seriously anything that baby boomers remember that has a general theme of better days ahead is in play.

Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Daddy" if Jeb is up.

Elton John is a good bet - His foundation is a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Alternatively, they could go with Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now



Although I'm pretty sure Sly's a Republican.

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31449838

sweetcell wrote:
Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31449838

Dammit.

Bad week to be a journalist or NCAA hoops coach.

David Carr, Media Columnist for The Times, Is Dead at 58

David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, collapsed at the office and died at St. Luke?s-Roosevelt Hospital on Thursday. He was 58.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Carr wrote about media. He joined The Times in 2002 as a business reporter covering the magazine publishing industry. His column appeared in the Monday business section and focused on media issues, including print, digital, film, radio and television.

Before joining the Times, Mr. Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. In 2000, he was the media writer for Inside.com, a website focusing on the business of entertainment and publishing.

Before coming to New York, he served for five years as editor of Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C.

This just happened a few hours ago! Very surreal.
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hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
I'm saying it here…I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

could you elaborate please?

"lefty liberal"?? let me guess? you voted for Nader? "lefty liberal" is kind of like saying loser…..

I really don't get it… Hillary is about as liberal as this country is ever going to get, is a woman (when is the US going to have a woman President???), and actually has incredible amount of experience (Senator, Secretary of State, White House First Lady)… yet we are told by lefty liberals to considIer Elizabeth Warren who has what? Two years of experience in congress???? or Sanders?  I mean I may like Sanders but the idea that the American people are going to vote for a Socialist is beyond ridiculous

Who else is there??? Biden? Come on now….

I thought gender didn't matter.  People who vote based on asinine and irrelevant factors such as gender, race, height, weight, eye color, state of birth, model of car owned, high school sports record, etc are the people who have no business being allowed to vote. 

of course it matters.. when a country where more than half the people are female has never had a female president in over 200 years it matters…it matters a lot….

almost every other industrialized country has had a female head of the executive by now….heck even banana republics like Argentina…places like Chile

and the point is not to elect a woman for the sake of electing a woman.. the point is to avoid NOT electing a woman because she is a woman and in the case of Hillary Clinton it would be hard to avoid any other conclusion if she were to run again and not be elected…

1) Your entire argument is invalid.  It does not matter at all.  We should vote for the person we each truly think is the better candidate.  No of those irrelevant parameters should ever come into play.

2) I would never vote for HC.  The very fact alone that she made her 'what difference does it make' comment about American citizens who died under her watch as Secretary of State 100% disqualifies her form ever getting my vote.  Being a citizen of this country and a veteran, I would never ever has one ounce of respect for anyone who had that attitude.  The list goes on form there why I could not vote for her and whether she has indoor or outdoor plumbing has nothing to do with it.

3) I fail to see anything that HC has done that makes her a worthy candidate in the first place.  The mere fact that someone has held whatever combination of offices that he has is not what leads to qualification, it is more what they have actually accomplished and what they did while in those roles.  I am not at all impressed by her record.

3) My greatest wish is that for once we actually get two good candidates to pick form.  Neither party put up anyone who I would have otherwise voted for in several elections.

my greatest wish is so much lesser…that you learn to count…

I'm sorry but its too early in the political season for me to get too worked about it… we know Hillary haters ain't going to go for her……and we know the arguments.. the woman has been vilified by certain people since she became first lady close to a quarter century ago!!!!!!!!!!

If she runs, and she may not given her age and potential health issues that can arise at that age, I'm going to give it 100% on her behalf… just like I did for Obama….

Can we continue to honor the fallen in this here thread instead of turning into a political thread?

Yada wrote:
Can we continue to honor the fallen in this here thread instead of turning into a political thread?

yes of course Yada…