<p>I'm thinking Jeb Bush still has a great chance of running one day! Make it a Bush dynasty!</p>
<p>Interesteddad, I agree. While I can see Edwards perhaps running for the nomination, I can't imagine anyone actually voting for him. He's so naive, and inexperienced, and came off like such a fool during the VP debates...also Repubs would bring up 1) he's a trial lawyer and 2) the video of him combing his hair for 10 minutes</p>
<p>I'd vote for her!</p>
<p>Bush won, why not Hillary?
I mean seriously, presidential election is very unpredictable.
I hope she DOES become a president, and I plan on working on her campaign
but I guess no one knows</p>
<p>It might be Kerry again. I just don't see Edwards as President. Something about him is very...un-leader-ish.</p>
<p>Anyone but Hillary. If only Bill Clinton could run again.</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance...But who is George P. Bush? Jeb's son?</p>
<p>no, george p. bush is bush's hispanic cousin? second cousin? very popular</p>
<p>He is Jeb's son.</p>
<p>George P. Bush is indeed Jeb's son. He spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention.</p>
<p>oh, then i'm just really dumb. </p>
<p>that's so cool, though.</p>
<p>haha, looking at old threads.</p>
<p>thought this was funny.</p>
<p>I hope and pray that our first female(?) president is NOT hilary. Obama smiles pretty and lets everyone think they are not rascist, but he is also intelligent (as is apparent in the books he has authored)... who knows. As a democrat, I thought I would never hate anyone more than Kerry, and then they made hilary, didnt they?</p>
<p>well, all signals point to her right now...</p>
<p>i don't know</p>
<p>eh, she'll allow federal funding for stem cell research and withdraw forces from iraq</p>
<p>i don't really care about anything else</p>
<p>ergo, i guess it's for the better then</p>
<p>hasnt obama taken the lead in iowa? other than that, hillary is likely to be the democratic nominee, sadly. Go Ron Paul!</p>
<p>personally, im tired of supporting the candidate i dislike least. </p>
<p>ergo, ron paul</p>
<p>InquilineKea are you a chick or dude becuz (whil she makes some rather appealing promises) she would make me ashamed to be female if she were president</p>
<p>let us begin our ron paul campaign</p>
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I think that in four years, the political pendulum will be ripe for a swing all the way in the opposite direction. After all, isn't that what political pendulums do? Right now, the Republicans control the White House, and both houses of Congress. But when we come under further terrorist attack(s), despite the current administration's best efforts to prevent it, when current the economic trend continues to worsen for a time (because now, more than ever, the economy is a cyclical and complex global machine that reacts to innumerable global events and influences, things over which the President and Congress often have relatively little control), when the negative effects of the shift in the national age demographic begin to intensify, both socially and economically in areas such as social security, and health care, when people start to look around for someone to blame, it will certainly be the party in power who will bear the brunt of it. </p>
<p>Then the voting populace will run all the way in the opposite direction, and virtually any Democrat with a credible message will be shown capable of winning the White House (probably by a landslide), and a goodly number of Democratic congressional candidates will ride his or her coat-tails to Capital Hill. Just four more years will tell the tale, and just look at the way the last four flew by! </p>
<p>If Hilary were make it past her Democratic opponents in the primary process (a big IF), I think even she would have a good chance of winning the Presidency. She will need to run a savvy campaign (unlike the last Democrat that ran), and skillfully repackage her image, but she's already starting to do that. The country will be desperate for change and willing to extend her guarded, if not full benefit of the doubt. I disagree that America is incapable of electing a woman to the office of President. The Brits elected Maggie Thatcher in the eighties, because she presented an strong image, one which superceded the fact of her gender. Hilary could do the same, IF she managed to overhaul the way America has come to think of her while she was first lady, and as I've already said, I believe that's starting to happen. I'd not hesitate to vote for a woman for President. But whether nor not I'd vote for Hilary Clinton---that remains to be seen...
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<p>Wise post.</p>
<p>This is one of the most awesome thread bumps I've ever seen.</p>
<p>^indeed it is</p>
<p>Most of the 2004 discussion seems so surreal and cynical and sad. I remember thinking like that.</p>
<p>Ah, President Obama. <em>basks in it</em></p>
<p>Woah. Just got done reading all of this bumped thread. Some of these posters were pretty spot on about the Democrats and how it would play out. :)</p>