a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

they hated each other.

After Hoover's election defeat in 1932 and the accession of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary Ickes ordered on May 13, 1933 that the dam be referred to as "Boulder Dam". Ickes stated that... Congress had never ratified [the name], and that it had long been referred to as Boulder Dam. When Ickes spoke at the dedication ceremony on September 30, 1935, he was determined, as he recorded in his diary, "to try to nail down for good and all the name Boulder Dam". At one point in the speech, he spoke the words "Boulder Dam" five times within thirty seconds.

http://i.imgur.com/5V9KDVS.jpg

And the Google Image Search for that was scary!

http://i.imgur.com/Qb5TThY.png

If you say "Boulder Dam" in the mirror three times, Herbert Hoover appears and offers you one of his granddaughters to marry.

That doesn't sound too great.

what is up with fdr's glasses there

http://thekoreancarblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2014-superbowl-kia-k900-commercial-starring-morpheus-the-matrix-3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jDnZQjw.gif

loll

apparently they were friendly before HH became prez, tho

hoover was nearly the dem nominee in 20

FDR urged him to run in 1920 actually (before Cox became nominee and Wilson was deluded enough to think he could win).

man if the two of them could only see this campaign, i wonder what they'd say. "what's w/ all the hillbilly krauts?" i imagine.

apparently Hoover told FDR, "Mr. Roosevelt, if you have lived in this city as long as I, you should know that hte president of the United States calls on no one."

https://twitter.com/WaPoSean/status/651823875270049792

Jeb clarifies that by "let the big dog eat," he meant "releasing the animal spirit of the country."

how has this man combined his father and brother's worst attributes

Why is Jeb constantly "clarifying" his remarks?

Because they were so tonedeaf the first time around?

he's also once again failed to address the question of implementation - who will let these dogs eat? who?

who, who who

remember that joke recorded in nixonland about '68 campaign reporters having a special key installed on their typewriters reading "romney later clarified"

a good #actually:

https://twitter.com/jyarow/status/651801577343291392

holy shit

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/hillary-clinton-says-she-does-not-support-trans-pacific-partnership/

"What I have learned about it" is a really weird thing to hear from a serving Secretary of State about a major international trade deal.

is this her tacking left to address the growing interest in Bernie? I mean, this is simultaneously a left and right point of issue.

hillary is not the serving secretary of state

Yeah, right now she's secretary of running for pres.

she's not servin' cookies

in general a populist as opposed to "centrist" position + differentiates her from present admin, feels less adventurous than the gun thing

Ah oops.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/21/401123124/a-timeline-of-hillary-clintons-evolution-on-trade

"i was for shitty-for-workers free trade before i was against it"

http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Amit-Shimoni-art-hillary-and-barack-e1440788843152.png

"What I have learned about it from Bernie Sanders' campaign."

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/09/democrats-draft-jerry-brown-why-not

i'm kind of feeling this TBH. at the very least (latter-day) brown leaves the impression of grown-up competence. which is sorely lacking in national politics.

i mean jerry brown obviously has 0 reasons to actually run

The Graydon Carter finger length thing makes the latest Doonesbury all the funnier.

[img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/DoonzFan/db151004_zps2rzpiyuj.jpg";]

Bah.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc66/DoonzFan/db151004_zps2rzpiyuj.jpg

"i was for shitty-for-workers free trade before i was against it"

― hunangarage, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:21 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, your reaction is supposed to be "Yeah, that's a totally meaningful position Hillary took on a deal that's going to pass with or without her well before she gets elected". Geez.

Yes please tell us more!

jerry brown is 77; i'm waiting for somebody to float mondale

My money's on Debs.

tippecanoe and tyler too

http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/northam/images/cleveland.jpg

i went to a Jerry Brown '92 rally at NYU, which was mc'd by Matthew Modine, who had a joke something like "If all those women Governor Clinton slept with vote for him..."

i was at a jerry brown rally (kind of skulking around the edges rather than down in the mosh pit, so to speak) in 1996. he didn't really seem to have a chance and the whole thing had an air of pointlessness. but he said some good stuff.

might need a separate thread for ben carson quotes

Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha.

^^^ not a Ben Carson quote, it's cool

"I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeye's organization" in Baltimore, the retired neurosurgeon told Karen Hunter on Sirius XM Radio, referring to the fried chicken fast-food chain. "Guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs. And I just said, 'I believe that you want the guy behind the counter,'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l453szonvE

Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House, ha ha ha.

― Three Word Username, Thursday, October 8, 2015 2:07 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ not a Ben Carson quote, it's cool

― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino),

from the campaign that elected the Dems' last unabashed corporatist president

wow ben