The Housing Crisis isn’t over. There’s a lot yet to see from 2009-2012. That points us to Chris Dodd who handled the Housing bill this year.

Health Care Reform has been on the agenda for some time as a way of controlling the huge shift of resources from YOUR wallet to insurance companies. That points us to Howard Dean or Hillary Clinton.

The Green Revolution screams Al Gore, but he’s more into the climate change part of it and the ‘alternative energy’ part of it doesn’t seem to be connected to anyone in particular (that I know of). Anybody know who is more involved in alternative energy?

As for general political skills, conviction, Progressive/Liberal tendencies and all the other good things we like, the list is very short after John Edwards dropped from the picture.

It might not make a lot of sense to most people, but I’d want to know more about Gray Davis (of California). The west is often underrepresented and a lot of our current issues (home mortgages, energy, environmentalism) are going to be strongly Western-focused.

So, that gives us: Dodd, Dean, Clinton, Gore and Davis

Which could step in to be president if needed? I don’t know enough about Davis to say, but I’d guess any of them would be pretty good.

I’m from Maine…please no Cohen.

govtrack is a site that does analysis of every one in Congress using their votes, sponsored and co sponsored bills etc. They rank her far left. More liberal than Obama who is considered “rank and file.” Dodd is also rated far left.

I’ve never understood how this meme came about that she was not a liberal.
I guess it was the “war” vote. Plus the atmmosphere was poisoned by the neocon slime machine in the ’90’s.
Oddly attitudes become part of the “reality” after awhile.
That whole repeat it and repeat it till its true mentality. I read some horrendous stuff about HRC and Bill over the course of this election cycle that were lifted right out of the neocon rumor mill. Progressives repeating this crap, like Vince Foster for instance really was demoralizing. I don’t think pmany eople do real research.

Not saying Clinton is some perfect enlightened being by any means. Lots to disagree with but not the demon she is made out to be either.
I grew to really like her the longer the Primary went on. The contrary in me maybe. LOL
But the longer it went on the more time I had to do research and found myself really liking and enjoying her. I did switch my support to her after awhile.

Still, I don’t think VP is the best place for her.
In the senate she can really do more I think.
Hey, What do I know?
not too much really.

He supports the Death Penalty which is something I find abhorrent.
He wants “stricter penalties for drug criminals.” (which ones?)

End parole for violent repeat offenders– which I can understand but I think some kind of rehabilitation in prisons would be a better position to take. Its the bleeding heart liberal in me. If after getting some kind of support to be able to change their lives they repeat, then what the hell, he does believe in the death penalty…
(Noooo, black humor.)

on the issues http://tinyurl.com/6o6pg9 doesn’t have his stances on a lot of the issues but there are some.

He doesn’t take Pac?Special Interest money but I think that is a big hoax, they all find a way to say that but get it anyway.