Who would you pick for president?

[PatrickforO]

29. I'd pick Elizabeth Warren

She understands economics.

She wants to level the playing field so that people who are willing to work hard really CAN get ahead.

On the domestic front:
1. She wants to lower student loan interest rates, and expand Pell grants.
2. She wants to expand Social Security, possibly through removing the current payroll tax cap.
3. Supports abortion rights
4. Supports the dream act
5. Supports background checks and limits to magazine size for guns
6. Supports single payer healthcare
7. Supports medical marijuana (which would force pot off Schedule 1)
8. Wants to cut defense spending and reduce size of standing armed forces
9. She'd like to slap some real reforms on banks, investment houses and insurance companies, and actually understands what they do and what is wrong with current regulations.
10. She doesn't like predatory capitalism and supports consumers
11. Supports campaign reform
12. Supports raising tax rates for wealthy to raise revenue
13. Wants to act to mitigate climate change

On the foreign policy front:
1. Wants us OUT of Afghanistan
2. Supports two state solution for Israel/Palestine
3. Is worried about NSA 'overreach'

She's not perfect and doesn't, in my opinion, come out strongly enough for curtailing the NSA and dramatically cutting its budget. She also doesn't support recreational marijuana. She seems inexperienced in the relationship between terrorism and policies that support social and economic justice (an inverse relationship - as one rises, the other decreases). Still, if you take the 13 domestic points and the 3 foreign policy ones, its A DARNED GOOD START to ending the American Empire and getting us back to being an American Republic.

The last thing is this: I know this is for fun and I've been far too serious, but any good President ALSO needs a good House and a good Senate, as well as a Supreme Court that is actually impartial. Basically the whole government needs to get the idea that it exists at our sufferance and should be using OUR tax dollars for policies and programs that actually help US. A good government doesn't piss away our money on stupid wars.