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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's Not Too Early for Me: Hillary for President 2016 [View all]
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Anyone here during the 2008 primary campaign knows how I enthusiastically supported Barack Obama. I remember just how wounding that time was, especially here at the DU. Six years later, President Obama has accomplished so much more than he is credited for in the media or even by the Left. Let me be clear: He saved this nation (and the world) from sliding into a deep economic depression akin to that of the 1930's. That economic meltdown was really that bad. And with no help from the Republicans and against a rabid, racially-rooted and seething hatred against this President, he worked optimistically -- even with so many unprecedented limitations to his Presidency -- to put our country on a much better road economically, to restore our broken relations with the rest of the world, to end two wars that were never necessary, to further civil rights and economic opportunity and fairness within our land. And he's still at it today with his never-failing smile and good nature. I can only wonder what could have been if he'd had any cooperation from Congress and what more he could have achieved. Keep this in mind: undoing bad is also doing good. It may not make a lot of headlines, but make no mistake about this: President Obama has undone a lot of bad.PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON: There is no one alive within the United States more qualified now to be the next President of the United States than Hillary Rodham Clinton. Period. In hindsight, it will turn out to be a blessing that America had to wait for Hillary because we will have a long stretch of sixteen years of Obama/Clinton leadership in the White House. Like with Roosevelt. Sixteen years to turn back the termite-like destruction from twelve years of Reagan-Bush capped off with eight later years of Bush/Cheney. Sixteen years! You bet I want those sixteen years.
I have no need whatsoever to now try to find a candidate more left-wing like myself to suit my own politics in a 2016 primary. It's like the saying, don't punish the good for the perfect except Hillary Clinton is as close to a perfect choice for the times there is. So, yes, I already have my choice and it's with a woman I trust to be at the helm of this country. Hillary Clinton will be a great President. She's an inspiration, not to millions, but to billions around the world. Her destiny is calling. She's prepared her entire life for this moment and that moment has come...when it serves the country and world better than it would have in 2008. Eight plus eight is sixteen. And I'm glad to see she's being cautious now because I don't want anything to mess with that destiny.
We need those sixteen years just as the American people needed those sixteen years with FDR and Eleanor.
Will you help me make it possible for President Obama to stand alongside our next President Hillary Clinton in January 2017 at the Inauguration with Michelle and Bill standing there with them? It's not too early at all. Hillary Clinton for President in 2016.
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Since you can't vote in the US, it really doesn't matter who you support in 2016.
Beacool
Feb 2014
#76
Yes, but there's a little bitty detail, she's not running for office at this point in time.
Beacool
Feb 2014
#86
This letter is being cited as hard evidence that Elizabeth Warren isn't running for President
Maedhros
Feb 2014
#125
What I admire most about Senator Warren is that she doesn't bullshit or eqivocate...She isn't
Rowdyboy
Feb 2014
#18
As was pointed out to me, this wiki was created and managed by Legal Insurrection,
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2014
#100
another right of center democrat? still time for her to put on the populist mantle nt
msongs
Feb 2014
#14
If Hillary was a man with the very same credentials and history, the same people championing her
Ikonoklast
Feb 2014
#23
Definitely need 16 years of a Democratic majority and presidency. GOTV, 2014. n/t
freshwest
Feb 2014
#58
Al Gore is more qualified. Feingold is more qualified. Sanders is more qualified. And of those three
grahamhgreen
Feb 2014
#59
"He saved this nation (and the world) from sliding into a deep economic depression". I would argue
grahamhgreen
Feb 2014
#62
No way, I will actively work against her in the primaries. And if the nominee hold my nose! n-t
Logical
Feb 2014
#75
It isn't too early for her to "spend time with her family" and "pursue personal interests"
TheKentuckian
Feb 2014
#92
I'm going to wait for some to actually declare for 2016. Until then, 2014 is coming
neverforget
Feb 2014
#94
2014 comes first. Please! Otherwise whoever the Prez is will be in the same fix as Obama...
Hekate
Feb 2014
#108
well written, but I disagree completely. Hillary is as corporate a creature as can be found
cali
Feb 2014
#114
I am impressed, the quality of trolling on the DU has really taken an upswing lately
Fumesucker
Feb 2014
#115
"Trolling" is now defined as "supporting a candidate 17 million Democrats supported in 2008"?
brooklynite
Feb 2014
#116