Originally posted by Omniscaper
Kazan, the digital revolutionary. Reading your interpretations of the world is a nice counter balance to Ann Coulter's ravings.
why thank you

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Who would like to see run for the Dem side of the 2008 US elections may I ask? [/B]
Who I may want to runPersonally I like Howard Dean very much - I've met him (in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union at Iowa State University), asked him a question, got an answer i absolutely loved, etc. When you're in the same room as him you cannot help but be sucked up in his "energy".
He is also unafraid to call someone out for what they are, etc.
The entire "scream" indicident was an unfortunate TV problem. The croud ATE IT UP, they loved it, you can see harkin start smiling and chuckling. It however didn't translate to tv well, and people decided to brow beat him with it. They ignored the fact that he, without prompting, named each of the 50 states at the top of his lungs --- which is very impressive.
I'd like him to run from president again, but from a political tactics situation I am not 100% sure, I would need some good polling data, on a lot of dimensions to figure out exactly whats up.
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Who I don't want to runI don't want John Kerry to run again, though i do like him a lot. He wasn't plagued with any problem personally - it was his campaign tactictians and the skill of Karl Rove
(that stupid "flip-flop" bull**** -- if you don't know why it's bull**** i can write an entire article for you
). He would get eaten alive if he ran again unfortunately, because to win he would have to change his tactics - he would have to give DETAILS about what the differences are -- not just "he does this and it's wrong", but how would you do it better john?
John also had the problem that it takes a while to "warm up to him", which is probably partially due to the intentional vagueness that his campaign tacticians had him project. It required paying very close attention to what he was saying over time to figure out his plans --- his plans were AWESOME, he just needed to come out and blatantly say them.
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ABSOLUTELY NO HILLARY -- do I even have to explain?