Chris Dodd declares candidacy for president

[netmouse]

Washington Post article

Thoughts?

I personally hope the democratic party will not select Hilary Clinton as its candidate, because so much of the country doesn't trust or like her and it seems a shame to act as if there are not other strong (even female) candidates in the country, and to further alienate younger democrats who already seem to oppose the idea and are wondering why they can't influence their party. I don't know about Barak Obama's chances of winning, either. He seems like a sharp guy but also relatively young and unproven compared to some.

The Iraq war is clearly going to be a big issue in the next presidential election, as is the general question of how to reduce terrorism. If you could set those two issues aside, what would you want in an American president for 2008?

Comments

[nicegeek.livejournal.com]

Aside from third parties, I'd like to see Russ Feingold as President, with a small Republican majority in both houses of Congress. Not because I really like him but because Feingold hates the anti-terror laws with a passion pretty much unmatched on the hill, so he'd clean out the executive branch of all the pro-snooping people, and hopefully get rid of most of the incompetent appointees that Cheney and Rove installed as political favors. He's also likely to push campaign finance reform. The Republican Congress would hopefully keep him from raising taxes too high, or ripping up too many trade treaties, and insure that he'd have to put moderate judges on the courts.

Of course, the odds of the above are slim to nil; he may not even run.

Another dream that would be fun is a bipartisan ticket...something like McCain-Obama, with a split Congress.

Yeah, I don't get what I want very often, on the political scene.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

"he may not even run"

Seems like a safe prediction, since he announced two months ago that he won't be running.