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2008 election presidential candidate analysis: The Democrats

This is a follow up so I may continue my little coverage of the candidates.

With no further adue, here’s my look at the candidates on the democratic side

Hillary Clinton: Basically a democratic Guiliani, but with more experience in DC. She has not talked about health care any, which means she’s probably going to keep it privatized if she’s president. She claims to be for change simply because we’ll have a woman president, however, she’ll make it to where the same 2 families have ruled America for over 20 years(that is if she makes it).

Barack Obama- Apparently the “most exciting” of the candidates, and I see no reason why not. He’s an incredible speaker, and he has Oprah on his side. It’s kinda hard to top that. However, he hasn’t really been so clear on what his views are, all I know is he’s for withdrawal from Iraq, and he leans more towards big business. Other than that, I’m not too sure where he stands on stuff

John Edwards- This guy is a pretty fiscal liberal, however, he’s a social conservative, which is kinda a problem for me. I have mixed feelings about him. He’d do an incredible amount towards bettering unions, socializing health care, etc, but he’ll set us back a few years on gay/abortion rights.

Joe Biden- He’s almost become the Fred Thompson of the Republican side. He seemed like a great idea, but now he’s getting nowhere. He’s the only presidential candidate with a plan for doing something about the Iraq war if we stay there. Biden intends to get health care socialized by extending the umbrella of Medicare and Medicaid to the point where every one can get covered. But, he screwed up when he complemented Barack Obama the wrong way and got labeled a racist. So he’s out

Bill Richardson-Another interesting guy. Technically he’s the most qualified of all the parties to be president due to his governorship experience in New Mexico, and has been an excellent diplomat to foreign countries. However, he’s pretty conservative socially, and has some ties to your haliburtons, your exons, etc, so I don’t see anything happening in getting alternative fuel policies.

Dennis Kucinich- Kinda the Ron Paul of the Democratic Party. He’s getting good online support, and creeping his way up the polls. He’s the only true liberal among all the candidates. Socialized healthcare, alternative fuel policy, union reform, gay/abortion rights, this man is on it. And his wife is hot. The main complaint about him is the quirky sense of humor he has. So? Kucinich could do incredible things as president

There you have it ladies and gentlemen. My pick(as you could probably tell) is Dennis Kucinich.

I apologize to the Chris Dodd and Mike Gravel supporters out there, but they too, haven’t a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the bid, and again, aren’t that interesting. Dodd is a generic democrat, and Gravel is a crazy liberal, that would set other liberals back to 2004.

Again, comments, complaints, and who you think should get the bid.

December 16, 2007 - Posted by jinxedbohemian | Reporting | | 2 Comments

2 Comments »

  1. John Anderson in ‘80. John Kusumi in ‘84. Ron Paul in ‘88. Jerry Brown in ‘92. Ross Perot in ‘92 & ‘96. Ralph Nader in 2000 (&’04?). David Cobb in ‘04. Dennis Kucinich in ‘04 and ‘08. Ron Paul (again) in ‘08.

    –There has always been somebody interesting running for President, but supporters hear that “your man has no chance.” It seems ever the case that ordinary / man-on-the-street voters like to ‘run with the herd,’ not stand on principle.

    We could test this. Imagine arranging a “blind taste test.” What I mean is a presidential preference poll that is between two hypotheticals. The poll would not identify candidate names or parties. Merely, it would identify these two–

    FOR PRESIDENT, WHO WOULD YOU VOTE FOR?
    1. The best choice
    2. The winner

    If a poll was presented in this way, which one would out-poll the other?

    I damn well bet’cha that the outcome would be Candidate 2. If so, then that’s why the ‘herd mentality’ creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Comment by Anonymous | December 16, 2007

  2. Interesting stuff. You’re very right. I say Gravel, Dodd, Keyes, Tancredo, and Hunter don’t have a chance because they don’t have either the best policies or support, and the last part is unfortunate. Hearing the “your man has no chance” hasn’t slowed down Kucinich and Paul supports a whole lot. I hate how people are picking Hillary because she appears to be the most “electable,” and Guiliani, who is only as high as he is in polls because he might be the most likely to beat Hillary Clinton.

    Comment by jinxedbohemian | December 16, 2007


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