If only we had a Democratic fighter like Weiner as president!

[Peregrine Took]

Smart and articulate are great but to have the courage to fight for your convictions - there is the rub.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. Yeah it's kind of like

If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their ass.

[quinnox]

2. Agreed

Its unfortunate that he has such an easily made fun of last name though.

[cui bono]

10. Nah... he knows how to handle it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FsbNip_YTc

The whole thing is great, but check out 1:00 and 4:00 for him talking about his name.

:)

[white_wolf]

3. Weiner/Grayson 2016.

Or Grayson/Weiner.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. I wouldn't miss a speech, that's for sure.

CSPAN2 could overtake Fox in ratings.

[msongs]

5. a fierce advocate who actually is one, whatta concept. well Weiner in 2016 nt

[meow mix]

6. k&r

[elocs]

7. Unfortunately to get to that point he would need to sell and compromise himself.

Just because a person might make a good president doesn't mean they are even remotely capable of being elected president, particularly with a member of Congress who may not be capable of being elected to anything higher in their own state other than in their congressional district.

So it doesn't matter how smart and articulate one may be or how much courage they have to fight for their convictions, as far as being president goes unless they can be elected it goes for naught.

[cali]

8. oh please.

[Snoutport]

9. would air force one be the weiner mobile?

'cause i kinda like that!

[cui bono]

11. I emailed him quite some time ago asking him to run for president.

He would get my vote, my support and my donation.

[white_wolf]

13. Just wondering. Did he respond?

[cui bono]

17. No, I'm not in his district though. I just emailed him to thank him for standing up for the people

and then threw that in and told him I would absolutely vote for him.

[SanchoPanza]

12. If Weiner were President...

Half the left would abandon him over his ultra-hawkish views on Israel/Palestine.

The left is perpetually looking for something to be outraged over, and no where is this more evident than in their response to the necessary compromises politicians make in order to craft and implement actual policy. Lincoln was too willing to forgive the Confederates. Theodore Roosevelt was a chauvinistic imperialist. Franklin Roosevelt was a tool of state capitalism. Lyndon Johnson was a feckless warmonger. On and on and on. And then after they die, these same Devils are later whitewashed as progressive saints in order to provide some semblance of cohesion to a political doctrine that is mostly defined by its utter lack of cohesion.

This is why we can't have nice things.

In fifty years, the American left will chastise whatever poor slob the Democrats put in the White House as a "corporate puppet," and wonder why we can't have great champions of the common folk like Barack Obama.

[JoePhilly]

14. +1

[Solomon]

26. +2

[roguevalley]

18. yeah, mr. champion and his comfortable shoes ...

[Blue-Jay]

15. I'd be thrilled to support him in the 2016 election.

He'd be a fantastic president.

[ecstatic]

16. Tell him to run in 2016... It's easy to talk

a good game from the sidelines.

[applegrove]

19. Yeah. A fighter would be nice.

[Lyric]

20. I'd like to see President Elizabeth Warren.

:hi:

[applegrove]

21. We need Weiner to be on his toes and to protect himself. I remember when Obama

was an up and coming star and was repeatedly propositioned by women at the Congressional Black Caucus in his first year(s)in Washington. No doubt the GOP will try and destroy who is good and strong amongst democrats. Go Weiner go!

[BzaDem]

22. If Anthony Weiner was President, he would be facing the EXACT SAME VITRIOL that Obama is facing.

The problem is not with Obama. It is with people's misunderstanding of high school civics and the power of the President. There will always be people who will never be satisfied with any President the party successfully elects, and Weiner would be no exception to that rule.

[Solomon]

27. Agreed

[JoePhilly]

28. No, no ... Weiner would have forced Congress to close GITMO by now.

Yup, I'm sure of it.

Obama secretly wants to keep it open.

:sarcasm:

[TheKentuckian]

29. Congress made him select Vilsack, Gates, Salazar, Geitner, Summers, and the rest of the corporatist

Congress made him declare the authority to sentence an American citizen to death without the benefit of charges, much less a trial?

Congress ordered hands off BushCo?

Congress ordered Bernake be renominated?

Congress commanded that Wall Street be treated with a wag of the finger followed with a wink and a nod?

Congress decreed that BP be given command of the Coast Guard, a veto of the EPA, and the ability to regulate the press?

Congress worked the backroom deals with pharma and the insurance cartel?

Congress forced the President and the DNC to back regressive incumbents?

Most of the decisions purely in the President's domain have sucked ass and there are solid reasons to believe he has worked to water down important pieces of legislation and plenty of reason to believe that. The President and his people have been leading in the wrong direction or not at all.

Certainly, you will accept that there are those that disagree with you that have a lot more under their belts than high school civics.

The President appointments and actions are his "tell" and what I am seeing indicated is he is as much of the problem as Congress was before power switched.

[sellitman]

23. I'd like him to Primary Obama

I'd send him all the $$ I could.

[Motown_Johnny]

24. the grass is always greener

If Weiner was forced to make the choices Obama has been forced to make you might be here with a post like...


If only we had a Democratic fighter like Obama as president!

[deaniac21]

25. A Wiener with balls!

[Atman]

30. The Dem leadership counts on Wiener to be our shiny object/ray of hope.

Him and Bernie Sanders. They both get lots of airtime telling the real Democrats everything we want to here...and then come back to say, "Hey, I tried, but no one would listen to me." They are our beacon of hope on an increasingly hopeless journey.

[robcon]

31. Weiner is about as electable as Grayson, Kucinich and Feingold.

In other words, unelectable.