Which candidate do you think American needs right now and why?

[Onlaketime]

Simple question. Please be civil and explain how the choice you believe in will fix the myriad of problems the US is now experiencing.

[SamKnause]

1. Bernie Sanders

This country needs to take a sharp hard turn to the left.

Our citizens have earned and deserve better.

Our government has abandoned the needs and wants of its citizens.

Bernie will nominate and appoint people who understand what needs

to be done, how to get it done, and how to undue the damage that has been done.

He has earned my respect.

He has earned my admiration.

The time is now.

Our country can not continue down this destructive path.

[saltpoint]

2. Hillary and Trump are disliked and distrusted,

and for measurable reasons. They no longer reflect the national culture they aspire to lead.

The landscape has changed, significantly, and new standard-bearers are required.

Sanders is the candidate who most reflects the shift in the national culture, the change in the dialogue with which problems are likely to be addressed in the future. He was decades ahead of Hillary on this. Hillary represents both the party's past and its least attractive features. She's cautious to a fault, demonstrably untruthful, and her campaign remains glaringly absent a unifying vision.

No matter who wins the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders' candidacy is the one that will instruct the future of the party. And properly so.

[bigwillq]

3. Bernie

His vision is better for the country, imo.

[Demsrule86]

4. The candidate who won the primary

Hillary Clinton. She will save the courts and protect progressive progress and may if she beats Trump badly enough...get the House back...then the sky is the limit...without the House the courts are what is important.

[firebrand80]

5. Love, sweet love nt

[Onlaketime]

7. Love of what?

Money, power, status? Love is an emotion, not a candidate in the U.S. election.

[RKP5637]

6. Bernie. The US is in a rut, Bernie is not in the same rut. n/t

[splat]

8. Is this a homework question?

Sure sounds like one.

Do your own work or end up dumb as a post.

[Onlaketime]

10. No, its a serious question. One that cuts to the heart of what is needed

and what isn't needed. If you can't give an serious answer then please don't bother responding. The country needs serious answers, not pedantic posts that water down the debate.

[Yurovsky]

9. I think this guy could fix everything...

[Onlaketime]

12. Please stop wth the childishness.

[oberliner]

11. The candidate who gets the most votes in the Democratic primary process

Anything else would be undemocratic.

[NorthCarolina]

13. That would be the candidate with the most pledged delegates after all primaries are over. -nt-

[oberliner]

15. Sounds reasonable to me

[Onlaketime]

16. Nof that deals with what America needs right now.

And it has been proven quite recently that the US is not a democracy, by the way. It is a corporatocracy where oligarchs purchase power operating under the guise of a democracy. Back to the question at hand, which candidate is the country in dire need of considering all the problems it is facing.

[oberliner]

17. I think either Democratic candidate would be a good choice

They both would move the country in a positive direction and address the problems we are facing.

[Onlaketime]

18. I think Hillary will be offering more of the same that we are expeiencing right now.

The same slow decay domestic agenda. The same handouts to corporations. The same warmongering foreign policy that hands a golden goose to the Neocons. The same military industrial complex growth that is robbing us of our savings.


I think Bernie would address these issues in a manner that could actually resolve them and make Americans lives better. What say you?

[oberliner]

19. I'm pretty satisfied with the job Obama has done so far

I think either Bernie or Hillary would keep us moving in the right direction. Though either of them would have to deal with a Congress that is likely to have a Republican majority, so that will be a challenge.

As long as we keep speaking out for the issues that matter, positive change is possible.

[Onlaketime]

21. How is maintaining the status quo and embracing the Neocon agenda

considered as a positive change in any way, shape or form? You do realize that a number of prominent Neocons who are destroying counties and families overseas are endorsing Hillary because they expect to get more of their war on?

[Rex]

14. Muhammad Ali

[Lurks Often]

20. I know it's not any of three remaining in the race

and anyone who could do a good job is probably smart enough not to want the damn job in the first place.

[HereSince1628]

22. We need TR to trust bust and love the environment But...

well, he's dead.

But can you imagine a Clinton vs TR debate? Wow. Just WOW!

[geek tragedy]

23. there's only one candidate up to the job of governing, and that's the candidate

who coincidentally has the most votes

[justiceischeap]

24. We need a Democrat in the White House, period.

Not because they will be able to do much of anything of import, because for the next two years, they won't. However, the most significant change they can address is the US Supreme Court. I don't think people really realize the long-lasting effects the USSC has on the direction of our country. The laws they uphold and create by rulings often have longer lasting effects than anything one President can do without a Congress to go along with them.

Look at Citizens United and what it's done to politics. The reason CU passed is because of previous USSC picks that were sitting on the bench when it came before them. Different Presidents/different Justices and we'd have a different outcome on that decision and the political landscape today would look different.

Imagine what a Trump USSC Justice would look like. You think CU is bad? Just imagine things that could come before the next court with a Trump pick or 3. Roe v. Wade? Gone. I'm sure any case that was brought before the court to dismantle marriage equality would make gay marriage a thing of the past--before I even have the chance to meet and marry my future wife.

So, in the matter of the USSC, the Democratic nominee is what this nations needs.

[MohRokTah]

25. Hillary because she is more qualified and prepared for the job right now than anybody in history.eom

[Democrats Ascendant]

26. Seems the people have spoken through their millions of votes...

[Maedhros]

28. About two-thirds of 29% of people have spoken in the Democratic primary;

probably the same ratio of 26% of people have spoken in the Republican primary.

I'd be curious to know what the majority of the remaining 45% think.

As for what the country needs? It needs to realize that what it has been doing for the last 40 years is not working. It needs a candidate that will not continue to make the same mistakes as her predecessors. It needs a candidate that recognizes that the real fight is FOR the people and not just against the rivals. It needs a candidate with demonstrated integrity and the ability to bring people together, not polarize them further.

Most of all, it needs a candidate that realizes that our wars are destroying us as much as the enemies we are making.

Maybe we'll get lucky and have that candidate.

[Onlaketime]

30. Thank you for providing the best and most appropriate answer.

Compared to the other posts in this thread (aside from the first three), yours stands out as a beacon of intelligence and hope in what appears to be a deceptively dark night. We need Bernie Sanders now, more than ever.

[tarheelsunc]

27. The candidate with ideas and plans to implement the ideas.

Only Hillary Clinton has presented detailed ideas. Her competitors talk a big game, but haven't presented ANYTHING concrete.

[Onlaketime]

29. Was all the money the Clinton Foundation took from Saudi sheiks and Ukrainian oligarchs a good idea?

Was speaking on behalf of and taking huge payments from Goldman Sachs a good idea? Was the bombing of the country of Libya a good idea? Was selling billions in weapons to the Saudis to drop on schools, hospitals and Doctors Without Borders a good idea? Was
Laughing about Ghaddafi's death on national TV a good idea now we see that has led to tens of thousands of women, children and men drowning in the Mediterranean?

Just curious because it seems a lot of people are willing to look the other way on what appears to be self serving and somewhat sociopathic behavior.