With only around 1,600 of them in the world it shouldn't be to hard to track them down.
I expect this will generate a huge bump in his poll numbers to the degree that Hillary will concede the race in 3...2...1…
Did she drop out? That didn’t play out the way I expected.
I had a brief exchange with someone who commended me for not being as rowdy as other Bernie supporters. I’m not a supporter of Bernie I am someone who prefers him to be President over all other candidates if that makes sense. I’m not going to any rallies. I went to the Obama rally where he announced he had enough delegates to claim the nomination on June 3rd 2008 at the X but I’m good this time around.
Follow me below the squiggly thing underneath this sentence...WTF do you mean it’s not there anymore?
Whatever, READ MY WORDS CITIZEN!!!
I think Hillary would make a great president. Not great in the “greatness” sense of the word. I mean in a polite “she’d be really good) sense of the word. The problem is that I don’t want her to become President.
I like her, she seems nice enough for someone I don’t know, she’s smart, blah blah blah. I will leave the compliments to someone else.
I don’t believe the next president will serve a second term. We’ve had 24 years of two term presidents which is an uncommon occurrence in our history. A little under half of our presidents served only one term. I’m totally satisfied with the past 8 years. Though I would vote for Obama as many times as he runs, I don’t want an extension of his time in office. He ran in his own lane and I want the next president to run in their own lane. I certainly understand wanting to invoke the presidents name as often as possible but if I really wanted a third Obama term I’d rather change the laws to do so. Do your thing, not his.
With regards to the culture of the country I think that President Obama has been nothing short of revolutionary from a cultural perspective. His impact on how people see the possibilities of power in America has been firmly planted and will be seen 20, 30, 40 years down the road. We have a lot of work to do but we made some changes in the past 8 years that would have been nothing but impossible prior to him entering office even with all the background work that was done prior to his arrival. I do think Hillary would have been a revolutionary figure had she won in 08 but Obama has eaten up a lot of that “I’m the first” vibe in my opinion.
I don’t think he was all that revolutionary on the economic front but he did help get us out of the recession which was a huge deal. I don’t think Hillary will be an economically revolutionary figure, I think she will be good but I don’t feel a shift on economics from her. My feeling is that she will continue to focus on some important and needed cultural issues, like family leave and some of the other issues she mentioned last night. That’s all great, that is what a president is supposed to do but that is not what I want out of the next president.
For me it goes back to a line she mentioned last night. Something about Henry Kissinger saying she ran the best state department he’d ever seen. I don’t want the presidency to be an exercise in efficiency. I don’t need the President to be the best manager I don’t want the president to be the best manager of the office. I’d love to have her as my boss and the leader of my organization, not my country.
I can certainly deal with business as usual, lets keep things moving along kind of attitude. The country will survive it for sure. I just don’t want to waste the presidency on continuing a legacy. I want to charge ahead in a new direction, to go beyond what President Obama accomplished. I love the guy but I have to be honest he should totally understand a more liberal candidate wanting to do more. To me it’s not an insult to his legacy but an acknowledgment that he was able to create the space where some of the ideas Bernie talks about don’t seem to be as far fetched.
I want my president to have a pie in the sky attitude to a certain degree, I want the congress and the public to steer him/her back to reality. When the president sends their team to go negotiate with Wall Street I want to feel like the people at the table didn’t go to grad school together. I don’t want a president who thinks they have seen it and done it before because they all make mistakes and I want those mistakes to mean something to the president.
I want the President to not be a hundred millionaire. There is nothing wrong with that but I don’t want to waste the presidency on business as usual.
I’d rather have Bernie as president because he is a pie in the sky kind of a guy:) I think he will be an economically revolutionary figure. Even if it doesn’t get through congress, we need to shift that conversation further to the left. His policies and the way he carries himself line up with who I am as an individual, not a hundred percent but that’s not required. There really isn’t a ton of daylight between these two but where there is I feel like Bernie is more focused on the people who need it and that is people like me.
I’m not poor but I could be if something went wrong sort of. I’m fortunate enough to know a few .1%’rs but personally my family is like most. One check away from have my shit confiscated and I feel like Bernie is more connected to people in that circumstance than Hillary is. Keep in mind I see Bernie as a 1%’er but Hillary is so far removed from that she makes .1%’rs look like poor people. It’s not that I don’t think she cares. I think that her baseline is so high that she can only see the poorest among us and I don’t want to be left to fend for myself anymore. There are some real things that can be done that will make it difficult for people like me and my family to fall in to poverty and I don’t know if that is a big focus of hers. I know that it is for Bernie and those are the types of things that get me.
Keep in mind that I know she cares about people, I have no doubt about her ability to do the job, I know she would fight for the people and all that. I just don’t want her to do it in that capacity. I want the goofy guy who not an expert on all global issues. I want the person who hasn’t met every important foreign leader in the world many times.
My final point being about elect-ability. I’m not as excited about this race as I was about Obama in 08 or 12 for that matter. If Hillary wins the nomination I will end up voting for her after I make dinner for the kids and put them to bed. If Bernie wins I will end up voting for him on my way to work. He made a great point about the enthusiasm and where it is coming from. I’m not sure that extending a third term of Obama is a compelling enough argument to beat even shitty candidates from the GOP.
I try to avoid bashing her personally and will continue to do so because I do think that she would do a great job as president but for me it goes back to whether I want someone to just continue Obama’s legacy (which I don’t give a shit about even though I think he’s awesome) or do I want someone to be more concerned about my legacy(which I give many shits about).
Watching the debate last night brought it home for me. This will be my final serious commentary on the election.
I want someone who doesn’t understand the issues billionaires face.
Good luck everyone.
