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Flying Squirrel

(3,041 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:17 AM Jan 2013

Silly timing I know after the Benzhagi hearing, but: Hillary 2016 or Biden 2016?


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Silly timing I know after the Benzhagi hearing, but: Hillary 2016 or Biden 2016? (Original Post) Flying Squirrel Jan 2013 OP
But... Agschmid Jan 2013 #1
Warren for President 2016. nt NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #2
Yes please. nt onehandle Jan 2013 #3
Yup. All due respect to SOS Clinton, but... NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #5
Yes. MannyGoldstein Jan 2013 #7
After some thought, either Hillary or Warren would be fine by me (even Pelosi!) Whatever will drive Flying Squirrel Jan 2013 #4
Yep that is my vote as well Kalidurga Jan 2013 #8
BOTH, elleng Jan 2013 #6
Yeah, because in the next four years it's simply not possible SheilaT Jan 2013 #9
Someone else. BlueStater Jan 2013 #10
Warren / Grayson 2016 truebluegreen Jan 2013 #11
Oh how I would love to see that one hogwyld Jan 2013 #17
I know people are getting sick of me saying this davidpdx Jan 2013 #12
Someone Else PADemD Jan 2013 #13
I wouldn't vote for Martin in the primary's MiniMe Jan 2013 #14
What do you dislike about him? PADemD Jan 2013 #15
In many ways he is a DINO MiniMe Jan 2013 #20
Well.... union_maid Jan 2013 #16
Other. GoCubsGo Jan 2013 #18
so many great Americans on the good guy team, we are so fortunate :) Sunlei Jan 2013 #19
Someone else (nt) bigwillq Jan 2013 #21
I voted Biden, but... nickinSTL Jan 2013 #22
 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
5. Yup. All due respect to SOS Clinton, but...
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:29 AM
Jan 2013

...today I was watching the hearings and imagining what Senator Warren would have said back to Rand Paul.

She'd have stopped him in his tracks and launched into a "Senator, let me tell YOU what it means to...." smack-down.

I truly believe this.

Nothing would make me happier than her in the driver's seat.

 

Flying Squirrel

(3,041 posts)
4. After some thought, either Hillary or Warren would be fine by me (even Pelosi!) Whatever will drive
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:25 AM
Jan 2013

the tea partiers even more berserk than they already are

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
8. Yep that is my vote as well
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:42 AM
Jan 2013

Personally I think Pelosi would drive them the most insane. But, I doubt she has ever wanted to be Prez.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
9. Yeah, because in the next four years it's simply not possible
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 02:13 AM
Jan 2013

that someone else will rise as the obvious nominee.

Apparently I'm the only one who still remembers when Gore was going to be our nominee in 04, and Hillary, well Hillary so obviously had the 08 nomination locked up that no one else even bothered to run. Wait. What's the name of the person who just got sworn in a couple of days ago? It'll come to me.

Really. To everyone who keeps on posting these silly things, think back just a little bit over the last half dozen or so election cycles, and you'll discover that there was no way of guessing three or four years ahead who was actually going to be our next nominee.

hogwyld

(3,436 posts)
17. Oh how I would love to see that one
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 11:02 AM
Jan 2013

I'm stocking up on the so I can watch the GOP heads explode!

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
12. I know people are getting sick of me saying this
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 06:09 AM
Jan 2013

but it will be neither. If one of them were the nominee I would obviously vote for them. In a primary it would depend on who's running. The last I heard no one has declared yet.

MiniMe

(21,883 posts)
14. I wouldn't vote for Martin in the primary's
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 09:31 AM
Jan 2013

And I live in Maryland. I'd have to think hard about voting for the governor of Baltimore for President.

union_maid

(3,502 posts)
16. Well....
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:58 AM
Jan 2013

Can't say right now. Either Hillary or Joe or someone else. Gotta see who's running and who looks strong in late 2015 to decide. Until Iowa in 2008 I was still deciding who I wanted to support. Biden wasn't getting any traction. I was worried about several things regarding Hillary. Oddly, most of them wouldn't apply this time, but her age, which wasn't an issue then, is something to think about this time as it woujld be with Biden. John Edwards seemed like the demograpically smartest choice, although where I'd liked him fine for VP in '04 he seemed shrill and grating in '08. Turns out that was the least of his problems. Then Iowa happened and the world turned upside down and the impossible turned out to be very possible. I don't see anything like that happening next time around, but you never know.

GoCubsGo

(35,019 posts)
18. Other.
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 11:06 AM
Jan 2013

Until late 2015 rolls around, I really don't give a shit. Let President get a start on this term before we worry about 2016. 2016 is a long way away, and a hell of a lot can happen between now and then.

Admins, thank you for "Trash This Thread".

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
19. so many great Americans on the good guy team, we are so fortunate :)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 11:11 AM
Jan 2013

No need for Democrats to be rushed at all, and probably best to keep the Republicans worried & flailing for years

nickinSTL

(4,833 posts)
22. I voted Biden, but...
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:14 PM
Jan 2013

that's because I like him a lot, not because of the Benghazi thing.

Realistically, I'd like to see who runs - my answer could possibly change. It's a long time until the campaigning starts in earnest.

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