Why would a Democrat wish to win the Presidency??

[kentuck]

The economy is a mess. The war is a disaster. New Orleans has still not been rebuilt. Corruption is at every level. Everything the Republicans have touched, they have screwed up. So why would the Democrats even want to win in 2008?

Is it because they still love our country? And that they believe they will be able to fix the mess left behind by Republicans? What if we go into a deep recession as soon as the Democrat takes office? The Repubs will blame it on the Democrat.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Why, Is there an election coming up?

I didn't know it was a Presidential one! :sarcasm:

[Zorra]

2. Because we have to fix what the republicans broke.

Again.

[Greyhound]

3. Bring this up in 7 months, it is a good topic. n/t

[Catchawave]

4. It's how Carter won post-Nixon/Ford years.....

But, come to think of it, these are much worse times :cry: Why would anybody want to be President?

[CottonBear]

5. Yes. They do. Remember FDR & the Depression. Yes, they will n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Great question! Why bother! My heart goes to Senator John Kerry.

He's been there, been burned, is still working for me, us, and is so much more astute and eloquent than who is in power now.

[question everything]

7. Because we have to stop further deterioration

we have to stop the robbing of the country's coffers and giving it to corporations and the top 1% of the income getters.

We have to stop the evisceration of the new deal and of domestic programs that will force the lower income and the poor to enslave themselves to corporations.

Yes, it will be a thankful job and I think that many of the recent laws are expected to expire in 2009 - to dump on the next president. But I hope that someone will be brave enough to tackle this.

[rwenos]

8. You've GOT to be Kidding

It's called . . .

the entire Executive Branch
the power to appoint Supreme Court Justices
the power to control the world's most powerful economy and military
the opportunity to turn around this nightmare.

Take another read of Article II, my friend.

[neoblues]

9. Gotta stop the bleeding; it can get worse...

Much, Much Worse--and a Democratic Congress and Democratic President is the only answer; though it will be a daunting task and won't be fixed/repaired--probably for decades.

[gristy]

10. You know, there is another possiblity...

I too have feared that the horrible mess that the Republicans are making is going to be very difficult to clean up, perhaps so difficult that it might be impossible without a "deep recession" as you say, or something worse.

But maybe, just maybe, when you consider all the possibilities, this may just not be the case. What if not only have the Republicans messed things up so as to leave us in a huge hole (that is clear), but what if their inability to extricate our country from this hole is completely by their design? That is, what if once the Dems get in and our country starts to once again cooperate with our allies, move to balance our budget with sane tax and spend policies (and thereby stimulate our economy and lower our interest rates), stimulate investment in targetted industries and business, reduce the tax burden on the poor and middle class, fund research in energy such as renewables, solar, and fusion, etc., etc., etc? I mean, the Republicans have been doing absolutely NOTHING for our country for the past 6 years. A dem president would only need to lift his/her damn pinky and could do more for our country in one week than Bush and the neocons have done in 6 years.

I'm an OPTIMIST today!!!

[zbdent]

11. Mainly, to keep from getting into a deeper hole

than another Repuke Pres can dig us into . . .

[TayTay]

12. I love the way Joe Trippi phrased this:

Do you have to be crazy to run for president?

"Think of it this way," political consultant Joe Trippi told me. "If I came to you with 25 of your closest friends carrying a black box with red buttons on it and said, 'We have all looked for the best person to take care of this box, and we've decided that the only one who can protect it is you. If anything happens to it, if you lose it, the entire planet blows up.' Most of us, I mean 280 million of us, would say, 'No! I don't want the goddamn box anywhere near me! Take it away!' Yet every four years a bunch of seven or eight guys come out screaming, 'Give me the box!' "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14414-2004Feb4?language=printer

Ahm, yeah. I like that one.

[KoKo]

13. Orderly transition....so that the bleeding stops.

[dolstein]

14. Gee, you could have said the same thing in 1932

But once upon a time, the Democratic Party viewed each crisis and challenege as an opportunity. FDR's response to the Great Depression ushered in a generation of Democratic Party dominance.