Tuesday Open Thread [4.3.12]
Bill Clinton thinks that President Obama will win election quite easily.
“I think that he’s gonna win handily, and I have for a long time. I actually have since the 2010 elections. [W]hat the right-wing says always sounds better when they’re sayin’ it than when they’re doin’ it. So I thought after the 2010 elections, they basically assured his reelection.”
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin thinks Mitt Romney should pick her or someone as unqualified, inexperienced, unintelligent and know-nothing as her.
“What I would advise the nominee, Mitt Romney, or whomever the nominee is: Don’t necessarily play it safe and do just what the GOP establishment expects them to do.”
Yeah, because it all worked so well the last time.
Meanwhile, former and future Speaker Pelosi wants Secretary Hillary Clinton to run for President in 2016.
The California Democrat told PBS’s Charlie Rose she has “no knowledge” of Clinton’s intentions, but also left no mystery about her wishes to see Clinton on the presidential ballot four years from now. “That would be so exciting,” Pelosi told Rose in an interview that aired Monday night. “Isn’t she a magnificent secretary of State?”
Clinton, for her part, hasn’t completely ruled out the possibility of another White House run, but has said repeatedly that it’s an unlikely scenario. The secretary of State, who has said she will not stay on if President Obama wins a second term, told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday that she wants to spend more time with family, friends and “the stuff that makes life worth living.”
I just have a feeling that after Clinton recharges after she retires from the State Department in early 2013, she will rediscover her desire and intention to want to be President. And I hope she does run. Because she has been a magnificent Secretary of State.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 43, Santorum 25, Gingrich 11, Paul 10
PENNSYLVANIA (Quinnipiac): Santorum 41, Romney 35, Paul 10 and Gingrich 7.
GENERAL ELECTION — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Gallup): Obama d. Romney (49-45); Obama d. Santorum (51-43)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Obama tied with Romney (45-45); Obama d. Paul (43-40); Obama d. Santorum (47-42); Obama d. Gingrich (48-38)
MASSACHUSETTS (Univ of New Hampshire): Obama d. Romney (49-33)
GENERAL ELECTION — GOVERNOR
WASHINGTON (Grove Insight for SEIU): Jay Inslee (D) d. Rob McKenna (R) (38-34)
WISCONSIN (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner–D): Tom Barrett (D) d. Gov. Scott Walker (R) (48-47); Walker d. Kathleen Falk (R) (48-47)
WISCONSIN (Rasmussen): Recall Gov. Scott Walker (R) 52, Don’t Recall 47
What the right-wing says always sounds better when they’re sayin’ it than when they’re doin’ it.
Genius.
Any thoughts from my Wilmington Friends?
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Can you imagine how stupid someone would have to be to ask for, and TAKE the advice of Sarah Palin? It boggles the mind.
Hilary Clinton for two terms then President Chelsea Clinton can appoint Hilary Clinton to the Supreme Court.
watching Obama address the associated press. he is SHREDDING the Ryan Budget 2.whacko. Good to see him in campaign mode again… maybe this time do it for 4 years
“In this country, broad-based prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few. It has always come from the success of a strong and growing middle class. That’s how a generation who went to college on the GI Bill, including my grandfather, helped build the most prosperous economy the world has ever known. That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so they could buy the cars that they made. That’s why studies have shown that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.”
Obama on press coverage of the Ryan budget:
ABout fucking time someone pointed that out to the idiots in the press corps.
Picture correspondents googlin “E–kwiv–A–lence” while chewing their lips. “Whad’d he say?”
“Good to see him in campaign mode again”, When did he ever get out of campaign mode. All he has done since he took office is run for re election
President Clinton thinks Obama will win election easy.
Going on Slick’s past record with truthfullness, I guess we need to etch that prediction in Stone.
Watch what he does, not what he says.
Rusty – you have made a similar, but opposing prediction, yet you have no discernible political experience. Whose prediction do you think has more weight?
I’d rather go with Clinton’s past record on winning.
Fisker may not build in Delaware 8:54 PM
NJ 04/03 WTF!!!!????
Whose prediction carries more weight. I like the challenge.
I guess after the election we will see who is smarter, me or slick.
I have become a patient man. Please make sure and remember after the election, my actual prediction from march of 2012. General election, romney wins 40 plus states, obama wins 10 or less states
Rusty: What’s with the obsession with predictions? What are you, 15 years old? If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, STFU.
@G “Rusty: What’s with the obsession with predictions? What are you, 15 years old? If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, STFU.”
I’m guessing that he’s broke. Anyone with such convictions AND money would run over to Intrade and bet against Obama and get really really good odds. And if he’s not broke, then he’s just another a plain ‘ol Republican lying troll… saying one thing while believing something very different.
You’re way overestimating the intelligence level there. And even if I had strong convictions, I wouldn’t be laying bets on the internet months ahead of the election. I can get much better odds in the Kentucky Derby futures.