Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

^This same website, fivethiryeight.com, gave Hillary a greater than 99% chance of winning in Michigan, yet she lost by 20,000 votes. If their projections for next Tuesday are as accurate, the next couple of months may be interesting.

Originally Posted by Borey the Bald

^This same website, fivethiryeight.com, gave Hillary a greater than 99% chance of winning in Michigan, yet she lost by 20,000 votes. If their projections for next Tuesday are as accurate, the next couple of months may be interesting.

Yep Landreth must not of checked the election results. Feel The Bern...MF...

^ story is here,..

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Looking ahead?

^ Go ahead rely on dated polls that derive data from robo calls to landlines. The Bern will continue to rattle your iron girdled old hag. Besides why would you support an establishment candidate that would most likely lose in the general? She is polling behind...Bernie has huge leads against the retards..

All is not lost.
Perhaps Billary will ask old Bernie to act as her VP running mate.

No, Bernie asking her to be VP as she has more foreign experience. yuk.

Who else is there ?

And if she did would her ole man move back into White House also ?

I am currently watching the Democratic debate in Miami and Hillary is very good at doublespeek. Anytime I hear someone giving those types of nonanswers, I am very suspicious and don't believe a fvcking word.

She does it so well, that I don't really think she knows how to be honest. Bernie, on the other hand, sounds believable and it may make a difference coming down to the wire.

^ An interesting article about that here;

What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means | FiveThirtyEight

Any Hillary fans have an idea why she will not release the transcripts of her speeches to her wall street buddies?

Because there is likely damning rhetoric about how much she supports Wall Street that she does not want to make public.

Also, her speeches more than likely contradict what she is saying today about Wall Street, and she knows it.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Because there is likely damning rhetoric about how much she supports Wall Street that she does not want to make public.

Also, her speeches more than likely contradict what she is saying today about Wall Street, and she knows it.

Which is exactly what I suspect. I was hoping to get some of the libtards take on this.

Who could Bernie choose for VP ? Fuk hillary she's too slippery.

Worse than her ole man.

^ Elizabeth Warren has been mentioned as a good possible. Kate Brown is another possible that has been mentioned.

However, I think The Donald would make for a dream team....

Calling Lisa Simpson. We've found your pearls.

Originally Posted by bsnub

^ An interesting article about that here;

What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means | FiveThirtyEight

Interesting take on Sander's upset in Michigan. We will know on Tuesday after the Illinois and Ohio primaries if there is any hope for Sanders becoming the nominee.

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Who could Bernie choose for VP ?

I mentioned before that Tulsi Gabbard would be a good choice for Bernie.

Originally Posted by pickel

Originally Posted by billy the kid

Who could Bernie choose for VP ?

I mentioned before that Tulsi Gabbard would be a good choice for Bernie.

I think she wants the VP slot.

Gabbard: Clinton will drag us into more wars | Washington Examiner

"We can cast our vote for Hillary Clinton who we know the directions under her words will continue to take us down this path of spending trillions on regime change wars," the Hawaiian congresswoman argued. "Or we can vote for Bernie Sanders, end these costly counter-productive wars and use those resources to rebuild our community and our future here at home. Because we cannot afford to do both."

Chicago (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign on Friday postponed a rally in Chicago amid fights between supporters and demonstrators, protests in the streets and concerns that the environment at the event was no longer safe.

The announcement, which came amid large protests both inside and outside the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago, follows heightened concerns about violence in general at the GOP front-runner's rallies. Illinois holds its Republican primary on Tuesday.

More here: Donald Trump supporters, protesters clash after Chicago rally postponed - CNNPolitics.com

Originally Posted by birding

Chicago (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign on Friday postponed a rally in Chicago amid fights between supporters and demonstrators, protests in the streets and concerns that the environment at the event was no longer safe.

The announcement, which came amid large protests both inside and outside the event at the University of Illinois at Chicago, follows heightened concerns about violence in general at the GOP front-runner's rallies. Illinois holds its Republican primary on Tuesday.

More here: Donald Trump supporters, protesters clash after Chicago rally postponed - CNNPolitics.com

This is the DEMOCRATIC thread.

You want the REPUBLICAN thread.

The iconic ’80s stockbroker says greed is bad and that we need Bernie Sanders’s social democracy to kick-start the economy.
The cinematic symbol upon which Wall Street greed is based just endorsed a candidate for president. It’s not Donald Trump, the guy running on a greed-is-good platform.



No, the real-life stockbroker from which Gordon Gekko draws his inspiration, Asher Edelman, just endorsed Bernie Sanders for president.



That’s like Scrooge McDuck going on Fox News to rail against the gold standard.

“If you look at something called velocity of money—that means how much gets spent and turns around—when you have the top 1 percent getting money, they spend 5, 10 percent of what they earn. When you have the lower half of the economy, they spend 100 or 110 percent of what they earn,” Edelman told CNBC. It could’ve been a Bernie stump speech.



“Bernie is the only person out there who I think is talking at all about fiscal stimulation and banking rules that will make the banks begin to talk about lending again as opposed to speculation,” he said. “From an economic point of view, it’s straightforward.”


Not quite as sexy as “greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit,” but it’s a little jarring to hear on CNBC, which did a tremendous job of rooting on a mortgage crisis for a few years there and never really apologized for it.



It’s quite a turn for Edelman, whom Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas shadowed in the ’80s to get some of the inspiration for Gordon Gekko. The character, after all, was one of the first guys to bring "the one percent" to the American

consciousness. “The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars,” he says in Wall Street.


Bernie Sanders’s reaction to this information—and entire raison d’être—is to make sure such dudes with slicked back hair no longer have access to all of that stuff, because they spend it all on art.



Gekko and Edelman’s reaction to this information was to buy a metric shit ton of valuable art. That’s why Gekko’s apartment in the movie is loaded with fancy-looking watercolors. Edelman had a collection of Basquiats and Lichtensteins, maybe in a New York City townhouse the New York Post claims he defaulted on in the past decade.



Edelman believes, now, that “80 percent of Americans have been in a recession for the last 15 years.”



It’s a message that many people believe won Bernie Sanders Michigan this week, a state that has been ravaged by the post-industrial economy while companies like Chevy received a bailout and continue to make ugly cars nobody wants, but with more parts from overseas.



“People can buy less for what they have now than they could 15 years ago,” he said.

The five hosts got very angry at this, calling it “financial oppression,” and thus not really in the purview of four middle-aged dudes wearing pastel button-downs and the requisite lady anchor on CNBC. It’s not very cinematic, it’s ha-ha social media ironic, and this guy buys too much foppish stuff, but Scrooge McDuck has got a point: Too many people are too poor, but they didn’t have a portfolio, so they didn’t have a voice. Maybe that is starting to change.


Gordon Gekko Inspiration, Asher Edelman, Backs Bernie - The Daily Beast



https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/...or-the-economy

I really hate to say it, but if I had to make a projection right now on who will be the next president, it would be Dillary. I do not endorse her and she has trust issues, but she is the most qualified candidate right now. Damn.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

I really hate to say it, but if I had to make a projection right now on who will be the next president, it would be Dillary. I do not endorse her and she has trust issues, but she is the most qualified candidate right now. Damn.

Horrible thought but I think you are correct, as there are no really well qualified candidates left in the game.