[GPSCC-chat] Who would you like to see challenge Obama in 2012?

[Spencer Graves]

My votes are for Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, both have received the 
Nobel memorial prize in economics (2001 and 2008, respectively).  "It's 
the economy, stupid", and these two should be able to do far better for 
the bottom 99 percent of the world's population than anyone the 
Democrats or Republicans are likely to nominate.  The mainstream media 
has so far been able to minimize the presence in the political discourse 
of the economy.  However, the Republicans and Democrats seem to be 
working hard to make the economy worse rather than better for the vast 
majority of voters.  The economy is not declining as rapidly as it did 
under Herbert Hoover (30 percent on 4 years;  no other 4-year period in 
US history has a record that even comes close).  Please see the plot of 
real US GDP per capita below (2005 dollars;  data from 
www.measuringworth.org/usgdp).


       Spencer Graves



On 7/27/2011 4:33 PM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> Jerry Brown is a born-again neocon in most things.
> He wouldn't be any change from Larry Summers' surrogate, BH Obama.
> Ask Hank Chapot about the show Brown put on with the Marines
> invading Oakland to kill the terrorists.
>
> Norman Solomon was one of the "progressive" pundits
> who sold the "progressive" media on the reality
> of "The Spoiler Effect" and the cosmic inevitability
> of "The Two Party System."  A "pundit" with no brain
> of his own is a mouthpiece for the power elite.  No thanks.
>
> I'd *still* like to see us run Anita Hill.
> She shares our values, she's smart and has good
> political judgement, and she's even more qualified
> for the job than Nader was.  Which is why she
> won't have anything to do with us, I suppose...
>
> Considering the demonstrated value to the Green Party of
> our presidential campaigns (zilch) over the last two decades,
> maybe we should revisit running an American prisoner of
> conscience as a pure protest vote.  The Greens/Green Party USA
> nominated Mumia Abu Jamal or Leonard Peltier in 2000,
> I can't remember which.  (Then they dumped him for Nader
> when they saw how big the Denver convention was gonna be.)
> Maybe we should run Bradley Manning.  We could get
> Daniel Ellsberg to stand in for him and make stump speeches.
> I'd say James Hansen, who may well be a prisoner of conscience
> if he keeps it up, but he's an employee of the federal govt
> and therefore can't run for partisan office.
>
> -Cameron
>
>
>
>> From: Gerry Gras<gerrygras at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Who would you like to see challenge Obama in 2012?
>
>> I think all things considered, Bernie Sanders
>> is probably the best candidate.  But I think
>> he is up for reelection as Senator, and it would
>> be awful if he was neither President or Senator.
>> Gerry
>
>> Rob Means wrote:
>>> http://www.stophoping.org/
>>> "The majority of U.S. citizens favor protecting Social Security,
>>> Medicare, and Medicaid; taxing the rich; cutting military spending; and
>>> protecting the environment. We don't have a candidate . . . yet.
>>> Potential candidates supported on this site will be notified and
>>> encouraged to run."
>>>
>>> Cornell West is one of the current candidates.  I wrote in Jerry Brown
>>> because his name was not listed, and he could actually do the job.  I
>>> hope someone writes in Norman Solomon who is as progressive as they
>>> come.
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