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    KC Complains A LotStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 11:04am

    Not for nothing, but, like, do any of these people want a job that ISN’T being President? Like I really can’t believe this many humans want this job. Being President sucks! Everyone hates you!

    It seems like a whole bunch of people want to be The One Who Beat Trump and aren’t considering the problems with trying to run for President in an increasingly crowded field with voters already settling into camps and calling each other assholes on Twitter. If the problem with the last election was “it’s Hillary, Lamer Larry David, then everyone else”, the problem here is “Goddamn Could All Y’all Cooks Get Out of the Kitchen and Let Me Breathe You’re Gonna Make Me Burn the Mac and Cheese.”

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      Hyperbolic Idiot ChamberKC Complains A Lot
      3/14/19 12:55pm

      I feel like all they want is to beat trump and haven’t really thought beyond that.

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      BanestarHyperbolic Idiot Chamber
      3/14/19 1:35pm

      Totally agree. I feel it the most with Beto’s shameless self-promotion campaign that somehow got this far.

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    Hyperbolic Idiot ChamberStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 10:49am

    So he’s trying to be Jimmy Carter 2.0? Either way i’m not too big of a fan I would like a Democrat with a decent amount of foreign policy experience to rebuild our destroyed relationships with the rest of the world and he sure as shit ain’t it.

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      BlackMage2030Hyperbolic Idiot Chamber
      3/14/19 2:18pm

      Not being a dick - which one would have that so far? There’s a lot of domestic heavies trying to get in but the IR-savvy pool isn’t there.

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      Hyperbolic Idiot ChamberBlackMage2030
      3/14/19 2:36pm

      Honestly nobody in the current field has much of it beyond Biden and really don’t like him beyond that fact. 

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    SweetJamesJonesStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 11:09am

    “O’Rourke is going to have a tough fight ahead of him as he’s a white man in a country that’s honestly tired of white men running the White House.”

    I don’t know about that. We’re tired of mediocre white dudes running. He is the only candidate I see that can bridge the youth vote, Black vote, and moderate vote. That’s a winning combination. The “Splinter” voters will be excluded, but they will have to join to beat Trump.

    Speaking of the Black vote, are Black people really going to vote for Cory Booker over Beto? Nah... Kamala Harris has a chance, but I think it will be about messaging between the two. He’s a Southern liberal white guy, and he fits Black culture. We are mostly Southern liberals, and Kamala is not.

    I’m happy he’s in. I want to hear from him.

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      BanestarSweetJamesJones
      3/14/19 1:37pm

      Biden might have a good chance of getting a sizable part of the black vote though. We’ll also have to see what Gillum, Abrams and Messam do.

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      SweetJamesJonesBanestar
      3/14/19 3:34pm

      I think his time has passed. Plus, ...

      Biden has never won an election outside of Delaware. Biden was never above 5% when he ran in 2008 before he got his Obama tailwind. Biden is a gaffe machine.

      Biden was never, ever a viable Presidential candidate, and I’m not betting he ever will be. He’s going to get crushed when the real messaging starts.

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    Vanessa FutrellStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 1:08pm

    So fucking annoying that The Root commentary site is crawling with cockroach-like trolls. 

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      Vanessa FutrellVanessa Futrell
      3/14/19 3:34pm

      *so many cockroach-trolls

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    LawrenceStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 1:56pm

    O’Rourke said he would run a “positive campaign that seeks to bring out the very best from every single one of us, that seeks to unite a very divided country.”

    “We saw the power of this in Texas, where people allowed no difference, however great or however small, to stand between them and divide us,” he said.

    I voted for Beto, but look...

    Beto, you lost to Ted Cruz, here, in Texas. You didn’t unite the divide. And despite all the media attention you had, money you raised, and huge grassroots campaigning-

    You.
    Lost.
    To.
    Ted.
    F^&*ing.
    Cruz!

    Do not lose to Trump, too!

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    Ad_absurdum_per_asperaStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 12:15pm

    joining an overly crowded field of Democrats

    Not sure I’d say 16 declared candidates (comparable to 1975-6) and perhaps 20 trial-balloon pilots were all that big a crowd this early in the process — and remember, the party is still reacting to the 2016 defeat, often interpreted in part as a primary that was too much of a coronation of someone drawn from too small a field.

    A year and a quarter from the convention, a year and three quarters from the election, this is the time for shopping the marketplace of ideas, and checking for excess baggage, and seeing if a dark horse who doesn’t yet have national name recognition has that certain je ne sais quoi or something. Most of them will have dropped out by this time next year.

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    Tb2125Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 2:35pm

    FYI Julian Castro is running as well and he’s good. Like really good. You might want to add him into this mix.

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    MikePenceNoneTheRicherNowVPStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 9:18pm

    “O’Rourke pushes an idealistic version of what America could be but he’s going to have to prove that he’s got the policy chops to back that up and that he’s not just a dreamer whose ideas are not founded in concrete plans."

    Perfect summation of his candidacy. Needs to show more substance and stronger stances

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    DarkwingChuckStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/14/19 11:16am

    Wouldn’t it be easier to list the people who aren’t running for president at this point? So far who do we know for sure. Oprah, Michelle Obama. I think everybody else on Earth either has declared or is considering running.

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      BanestarDarkwingChuck
      3/14/19 1:39pm

      Honestly, yeah.

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    j4x_Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    3/15/19 5:38am

    Mmmm, white bread with a side of whole milk and a cup of tasteless granola.

    This dude really has nothing going for him, does he?

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