It's 20 January 2009. Who do you want to see taking the Oath?

[elperromagico]

I'll remain fashionably neutral on this one...

[rockymountaindem]

1. The man we all hoped would be taking it tomorrow.

[cyn2]

61. Wes Clark

[faithfulcitizen]

92. me too! President Wesley K. Clark!

:hi:

[Albert Einstein]

93. Dennis Kucinich, the best of the best.

If we have a choice, no need to settle for less.

[Burma Jones]

2. Skinner

He's a stern, yet forgiving lee-der

[DODI]

3. Kerry/Boxer -- 2008!

[Lenape85]

7. No, Feingold/Boxer

Both have impeccable voting records, both have stood against NAFTA and the IWR

[pookieblue]

56. agreed- Kerry/Boxer 2008

[LittleClarkie]

64. Yep, that'd do it

I'd also take Kerry/Feingold.

If Mr. K wanted to give JE another go, that would be fine too.

[DBoon]

4. The judge who should be sentencing

the whole WH gang to a long stay in club fed

[justinsb]

5. I think that after 4 years of *

the Democrats will be able to elect pretty much whoever they want. Now is the time for Progressives to move, to make sure that person is not a right-wing Dem.

[progressiveBadger]

6. That's what I'm thinking

I agree 100%. Sure they can steal a close election, but the blowout that will be 2008 will be very difficult for the republicans to steal.

[AndyTiedye]

15. Repubs Will Still Own the Media and the Voting Machinez

If it weren't for that, we would be preparing to celebrate
the inauguration of President Kerry.

What makes you think it will be any different in 4 years?

[justinsb]

16. In 4 years

9/11 will seem further away and not as scary, more disabled veterans will be home and living on the streets, people will grow weary of war and defeceits and being the bad guy in the world, then there are the threats to social security etc.

By owning the media and the voting machines they can gloss over a close election but they can't hide a landslide without tipping everyone off.

[AndyTiedye]

52. None of Those Things Will Be Allowed To Matter

In 4 years, 9/11 will seem further away and not as scary,

Then they'll have another one.

more disabled veterans will be home and living on the streets

They'll hire more cops to keep them out of sight.

people will grow weary of war and defeceits and being the bad guy in the world,

We already were and are. But the media does not speak of such things.

then there are the threats to social security etc.

I wouldn't have thought the kind of attack they are mounting on SS
would be possible, but when you have that much control of the media,
I guess you can do anything you want.

By owning the media and the voting machines they can gloss over a close election but they can't hide a landslide without tipping everyone off.

Perhaps they already did.

[ThorsHammer]

18. Agreed

Hopefully we'll have good candidates on both sides this time around.

Edit - though I am wary of the GOP trying to stay far right

[MercutioATC]

8. Howard Dean.

That would make a difference. Anybody else? I don't know.

[Jacobin]

9. I think he could do it

If the PNAC Dems will get the fuck out of the way

[jswordy]

55. I'm with you...

Dean could do it. But it will never in a million years happen, not with the old-line party as it is now.

I think Dean will make a bigger difference through DFA, after he loses the DNC chair race, than anything he could do. If he can energize DFA through '06 to another '08 prez run, he could act as the "conscience of the party," and thereby ensure an eventual nominee who reflects the deepest held convictions of the party. He might end up as veep on the ticket.

But the party's elite so far as been extremely resistant to reform...they like the way things are running now (for a variety of reasons that really ought to be explored someday).

Dean's greatest legacy could be through DFA, working to put candidates in the lower-level offices that will form the "farm team" for future national DNC candidates.

I haven't totally given up on a Dean DNC chairmanship, but it looks very unlikely now, the way the state chairs are being manipulated and the unnamed dark horses are being prepped.

Those reasons the old-line pols in the DLC and DNC don't want reform, just want to surface pander? They really ought to be explored. #1: It makes more money this way...

[DaveinMD]

10. Wes Clark

or Mark Warner.

[Dinger]

40. If We Get A Second Chance With Clark, We Better Not Screw It Up

[melnjones]

11. Clark. nt

[Borgnine]

12. It depends.

I'd want to see Dean/Clark, Gore/Dean, or Gore/Clark, but the first two depend on whether or not Dean gets screwed out of the DNC chair.

[robbedvoter]

13. Clark.

[roguevalley]

14. Clark. We're going to need an economist with a military background.

Someone with the sense to know the rapture isn't coming and we're stuck here. And besides, someone who isn't butt ugly like *

[Quixote1818]

17. Clark, Clark, Clark, Clark.....

[WI_DEM]

19. Dean

but it won't be him if he is the DNC Chair, and right now I think it is more vital that he have him as Chair.

[Seabiscuit]

63. Dean. But agreed we need him as DNC Chair.

[truebrit71]

20. General Wesley K. Clark (Ret)

.

[Captain Kronos]

89. The General

Wesley Clark: Soldier, statesman, diplomat, economist, teacher, businessman, intellectual, patriot, Democrat.

[Qanisqineq]

21. Bush is allowing elections in 2008?????

;)

[robbedvoter]

29. Mock elections. part of Pane&circenses program - to keep the sheep

busy while robbed and f8ed.

[oneold1-4u]

32. I said that weeks ago!

I now believe and hope that the "now regime" with leaders will keep loading their ship with hate and fear and can't stay afloat. The hole they will create in the republican party won't necessarily create more power to democrats. The whole structure that has been created, must be removed, not rehashed or formed to another political trashing of freedoms. It was not good for humanity to replace Hitler with Stalin in Europe! The best person will show up but they better hurry!

[pstans]

34. Bush to run again

Bush will say that he can run again since he wasn't elected by the people in 2000.

[UrbScotty]

22. In a 'perfect world', Feingold.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x119120 (sorry the link is broken)

Durbin would also be fine.

But I'm okay with Biden, Boxer, Clark, Dean, Edwards, Gore, Kerry, Kucinich, Reid, and quite a few others.

[SharonRB]

24. On your list, I'm okay with

Boxer, Clark, Gore or Kerry (maybe even Biden). Maybe Edwards, but I still think he doesn't have enough experience. VP again would be okay.

[SharonRB]

23. Kerry or Clark

with Boxer as VP.

[Mz Pip]

25. Wes Clark

but I doubt he'll run again.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[EVDebs]

26. Chas. Schumer of NY or Elliot Spitzer ?

[Johnny Noshoes]

78. Schumer?

You are joking right? Hey I liked him when he was my congressman I thought he was a pretty good guy. What happened to him after 911? He's like so many other Dem Senators - doesn't stand up to these thugs when he should. I don't totally despise the guy or anything but I sure don't think he's a possible President.


"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. There is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
--Ernest Hemingway

[dhinojosa]

27. William Jefferson Clinton

The way I see it, with Republican hubris, they would naturally repeal the amendment that only allows for only two terms. So when they are anticipating another Bush victory, Clinton will beat his face in and mop the floor with it.

[Touchdown]

28. George W. Bush

You folks are truly optimistic. After the next terrorist attacks, there won't be a 2008 election. Bank on it.

EDIT: OOPS! I didn't see the "want" in the question. That would be Dean, Feingold, or my dream Maxine Waters!

[robbedvoter]

30. While I agree with the premise , I don't understand your wish.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. A Democrat, a real one

Someone who doesn't take any guff from the Republicans and who stands up for the little person.

Other than that, it's too early to name specific candidates. I'd rather concentrate on who I want replacing various Republicanite Senators and Congresscritters in 2006.

[Joanne98]

33. Spitzer........and some yet unknown military hardass

Who hates Wall Street.

[pstans]

35. National Security won't be the issue in 2008

Hopefully, we will be out of Iraq by then. 9/11 will not be at the front of everyone's memory. The issue in 2008 will be Energy. The Cheap Oil Era will be over. Gas prices will have skyrocketed, making millions of Americans unable to afford gas, thus thrusting them into poverty.

[FrenchieCat]

62. Yeah...Right!

The Rethuglicans are going to let go of their calling Terror Card....I highly doubt it. They will continue to exploit fearmongering for all that it's worth.

You will have to pry that card out of their cold dead hands. Won't happen.

Unfortunately.....there will not be "Peace on Earth" by 2008. And actually, if there was...then it would mean that the Rethugs were successful in doing this.....and it would mean that they would get elected no matter who we would run.

I believe that in 2008, things will be just as horrid, if not more so Internationally....and the War on Terra will be used for maximum effect whenever required. Also Iran may be what will be on the "New product line" by 2006. Also don't underestimate that Bush will be in charge of our government during the 2008 election....so no, National Security will be THE issue....again.

[pstans]

72. Never said that National Security WON'T be an issue

Just that National Security won't be THE issue. People will not care about what is going on overseas when there are so many problems at home. The end of the Cheap Oil Era will make car usuage a habit of the wealthy. Many people won't be able to afford to drive to work, surburbia will become an isolated wasteland where property values will drastically fall, and the middle class will fall into poverty. Our nations agriculture system will stop working since most everyone gets vegetables shipped from California. When that cost of shipping jumps, the price of food will jump and people won't be able to afford food.

I say move closer to the center of town, start growing a garden, buy a fuel effiecent car for when you HAVE to take a trip, start riding a bike, and start paying off all of the dept that you have.

[FrenchieCat]

79. I like your idea....

in terms of your recommendations....hope things turn out that way.

But in the meantime, you have not addressed the point that I made in reference to the fact that Rethuglicans are not going to just "let go" of this winning issue for them. Heck, the are still doing the terrorist alerts....when convenient...and are talking about attacking Iran.

Again, I hope you are right....I just think the Rethugs have a much bigger mike than we have....and they aren't going to let go of their winning hand. That was the real point of my post.

[Auntie Bush]

46. How about a known military hardass...

How about Clark. He won't take any sh*t from anyone! Remember?

[proudbluestater]

36. Barbara Boxer for PRESIDENT, not VP

[sophie996]

53. YES!

[Sparkly]

37. Wesley Clark. n/t

[spotbird]

38. Jeb.

I just hope they dispense with the formality of having the voting machines print.

[blockhead]

39. Byron Dorgan

eom

[Clarkie1]

41. A liberal democrat who's not afraid to call himself a liberal

[Quixote1818]

47. Oh yes, you mean Wesley Clark!

[BlueManDude]

42. Gore - and we can right this fucking nightmare.

[GreenPartyVoter]

43. DK

-----------------------------------------------------------
Save this nation one town, county, and state at a time!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm#why

[SammyWinstonJack]

44. Al Gore.

:bounce:

[Nordmadr]

57. I second the Al Gore vote...

and at the moment think Boxer or Dean for the second (VP).

[leyton]

86. I third it!

It ticked me off that the convention this past July wasn't Al Gore's. It should have been his convention, his re-election.

[Pork Chop]

45. I bet Bush will be taking the oath again for the third time

I'd like to see Obama maybe.

[Blue_in_VA]

48. I still think Kerry would make a darn good president.

Wesley Clark has grown on me, too..just recently. When he was running I found him somewhat unnerving. Something about his eyes...he rarely blinked. And I questioned his Dem credentials. Since then he seems to have gotten his politcal sea legs (he did a great job on the cable/broadcast news shows on behalf of Kerry). I can see myself supporting him in the next go around.

And I could probably be persauded to fall in love w/ Edwards again. :)

[FrenchieCat]

49. I'll say the General

Wes Clark....since the Rethugs will hold on to the "Fear card" as long as they can...which looking at the landscape will be forever.... unless we run a liberal national security expert that knows how to kick Rethuglican Ass!

[Clark2008]

50. Wesley Kanne Clark

Please, let's not screw it up this time.

And, please, when the media tries to ignore him in favor of Hillary/or whomever other Dem that's running that doesn't stand a chance in hell of flipping not one red state, let's call 'em on it.

[AnnitaR]

51. Clark/Boxer

I will always believe that Clark was the one they feared most. I sincerely hope he runs in 2008.

[Roland99]

54. Clark/Pelosi...or Clark/Boxer

[Nashyra]

58. Clark/Boxer

[ckramer]

59. Boxer/Hillary

[RadiDem]

60. Howard Dean

nt

[ClarkUSA]

65. Wes Clark

[Donna Zen]

66. The "One"

Clark

[ernstbass]

67. John Edwards

[liskddksil]

70. same here

[abburdlen]

90. Clark

In fact I'm making plans now to take my daughters DC for the event.

[gauguin57]

68. Bill Clinton.

Change the two-term rule!

[Lexus Liberal]

69. Clark

Should have been Clark today.

[ynksnewyork2]

71. For me,

not Kerry, not Hilary, not Biden, not Pelosi. I'll take Clark, Dean, Spitzer or Boxer.

[Jack Rabbit]

73. The 43rd President of the United States

Ending the interregnum of the Dictator.

[deadparrot]

74. Wes Clark. I don't care about VP.

[Cheswick2.0]

75. Gore/Dean, Gore/Boxer, Dean/Boxer

Dean/Harkin

[dad]

76. AL SHARPTON

I believe that no dem has a chance in 2008; Jeb Bush is going to take it next time. I guarantee that. After the Dems rolled over in 2000 and 200r, I will not get sucked in again by this waste of a party.. unless things change and the Dems actually evolve into an opposition party .. we will never get into the office again. (Still not over it x2)!!

[Leilani]

77. Wes Clark!

EOM

[tishaLA]

80. I'm pleased to join the Clark choir

...but I will proudly support and work for any good, proud Democrat who earns the nomination. I only hope with all my heart that Wesley Clark is that good, proud Democrat.

[OnionPatch]

81. Anyone?

Out of all the people running, I liked Carol Mosely Braun the best even though I thought she had no chance of winning. So I'm saying, since this is fantasy, Carol Mosely Braun. Then either Clark or Dean for vice president.

[Pithy Cherub]

82. Wes Clark!

[theboss]

83. Me....

Unfortunately, I won't be 35 until a month after election day.

So, I will go with my Dad.

He will retired by then and will need something to keep him busy.

[justy329]

84. I will basically take any Democrat.

Some favorite tickets:
1. Gore/Warner
2. Gore/Feingold
3. Clark/Warner
4. Kerry/Warner
5. Hillary/Warner
6. Obama/Gephardt
7. Gephardt/Obama

[DemOperative]

85. ANYONE EXCEPT MEMBERS OF THE FOLLOWING FAMILIES:

Bush
Cheney
Kennedy
Clinton
Nixon
Reagan
Ford ( Harold excepted)
Schwartzenegger

I just HATE political dynasties. Sometimes they do more harm than good.

[Generator]

87. Kerry

Fantasy:

Senator Kerry works with REAL dems like Boxer, and Dean, and some names we don't know yet(whistleblowers, REAL journalist-heros)-and brings out the truth about the true evil behind the Bush cabal.

I want the truth about 9/11.

9/11 is the only reason Bush was back in office (besides fraud..he obviously got far too many legit votes to account for all fraud) and 9/11-the lie, the travesty is what is ruining and running our lives and much of the world's lives right now.

The lie the lie the lie.

I want Kerry to bring Bush down, I want the Republicans to know that they have supported the very people that let America be attacked, that used that as a ruse, using grief and fear and propaganda to invade Iraq, to ruin many lives there, and all the lives of the soldiers lost,and the many wounded in body and soul for life.

I want the dignity and promise of my country restored.

I want what we know was ours on November 2nd, before they changed reality again and took it all away in a fog of lies lies lies.

Chances are this is a fantasy..but you asked.. I don't just want a Democrat sworn in in 2009-I want the war over and the lies over.

A sane mind cannot live in lies. Our country is not of sound mind.

[phylla]

88. CLARK!!!!

no one could do the job better.

[rocktop15]

91. Noam Chomsky

ssia.