Rank the Dem candidates in order closest to the 8 years of peace and prosperity

[wyldwolf]

*** in response to this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3129995&mesg_id=3129995 ***

Using the names of the candidates currently campaigning, please rank them as to who was closest to the most successful presidential administration of the last 50 years.

Your list will be helpful for those of us without candidates at this time but who are looking to support successful Democrats.


Here is mine:

Hillary Clinton
Bill Richardson
Joe Biden
John Edwards
Christopher Dodd
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Mike Gravel

Feel free to offer an explanation why you believe your preferred candidate is the Democrat MOST LIKELY to return us to the peace and prosperity of the 90s.

[TayTay]

1. Exactly. Which candidate wants to take us backwards

And, ahm, only one was married to Bill Clinton, so, ahm, I think Hillary was indeed the closest to Bill Clinton. Unless the rest are hiding secrets we really don't want to know.

Ah, this request makes no sense at all. I want someone who wants to move forward into the future, not back to the past.

[ShortnFiery]

2. You're not even trying to be discreet now.

Thanks, but no thanks. :eyes:

[wyldwolf]

5. Have I ever tried to be discreet?

:eyes:

[ShortnFiery]

9. No but you've reached new depths ... scratched down to another rock layer of political hype.

Bravo. :eyes:

[wyldwolf]

12. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[tridim]

3. 1. Gore

2. Kucinich
3. Obama
4. Edwards

In exactly that particular order.

[dapper]

4. Gore!

Al Gore!

Obviously not on your list but... what a candidate...


Dapper

[k_jerome]

6. great thread and win-win....the top of each persons list is trying to be like Bill! nt.

[lyonn]

7. Glad you asked. So far Chris Dodd has been impressive

His speeches in the Senate have been impressive. The few campaign speeches that have been televised are also impressive. What are the negatives concerning him? He appears to be educated in foreign affairs and follows the basic Democratic platform of the welfare of our country and people and not so much the corporations. He speaks well and appears to appeal to those he meets with in person. They like what he says and he answers in a straight forward way.

[blm]

8. Person most likely to get to REAL peace is the one who OPENS THE BOOKS on BushInc.

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[oasis]

10. Richardson, Hillary, Edwards, Dodd and Biden. nt

[SaveElmer]

11. I'd move Dodd ahead of Edwards...but other than that...

Looks like a winner...

[wyldwolf]

13. Really? I can see that, but why would you?

[SaveElmer]

17. Well he has been there longer...

Edwards was only Senator during the last two years of the Clinton admin...while Dodd was there helping the entire time...

Dodd was also head of the DNC for 2 years during that time...

[wyldwolf]

20. ok. Point taken.

[David Zephyr]

14. Closest to Bill? Either Al Gore or Monica Lewinsky. You set yourself up for this.

You should be informed that should Al Gore even wink that he might run, your thinly-suggested, and self-imposed rationale for backing Hillary for President would, of course,immediately box you into then supporting the former Vice President, for he was indeed the "closest" to President Clinton during those years, not Hillary.

However, if you were then to un-artfully suggest that your use of the word "closest" meant intimacy, then again, you would have to support Monica Lewinsky, wouldn't you?

In either case, your thread's suggested rationale of who was "closest" to Bill Clinton during his presidency does not make a case for Hillary at all.

It only makes a case for Al Gore or Monica Lewinsky. ;)

[wyldwolf]

15. "candidates currently campaigning" means those who have announced.

[David Zephyr]

16. You should read the post before you reply to it. I covered your point.

"You should be informed that should Al Gore even wink that he might run, your thinly-suggested, and self-imposed rationale for backing Hillary for President would, of course,immediately box you into then supporting the former Vice President, for he was indeed the "closest" to President Clinton during those years, not Hillary."

[SaveElmer]

18. Not that I can speak for him...

But if you had read any of the OPs posts you would know that he is supporting Richardson for Prez...

[wyldwolf]

19. your points are irrelevant to my OP. Gore has not announced and my post...

... is obviously about policies, of which Monica was no part of.

[Ninja Jordan]

21. This "poll" does't even make sense.

[wyldwolf]

22. nor does the one that inspired it. Did you post that sentiment in the other thread?

[lyonn]

23. Hummm, thought this was a serious question.

Apparently it's a Hillary question?

This two person race that is going on is boring. There are other candidates and most people, one would think, seriously are interested in all the candidates. Bill did a good job. Best we have had in decades. Now, on to the next election and let's not annoint anyone this early. We have lots to debate over each one.

[eridani]

24. The prosperity part didn't apply to most people

--particularly not the victims of welfare "reform" or the massively expanding prison population (the War on Some Drugs), which eliminated hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters from the voting rolls.

[AJH032]

25. That would be incorrect

The most important statistics--that is, the amount of people in poverty and the amount of people unemployed--decreased every year under Clinton, and their incomes increased every year. The so called "victims" of welfare reform mostly left because they found work.

[eridani]

26. That's not prosperity

Which you would know if you'd ever tried to live on an income just above poverty level. The victims of welfare "reform" found work that made them much poorer, and left them without health care coverage.

[Larry Allen]

27. Richardson, Kucinich, Obama, Edwards