Is there anyone running for President worth a darn?

[RobertB]

Is there anyone currently in the running for 2016 US President that can undo or mitigate all the Evil that goes on? Especially the belligerence and wars.

 

[SummerLite]

No. Sorry. I'm betting Geb Bush will be the next president. He was being set up for this way back it seems to me. The same old pattern will continue.

 

[Tempus Fugit]

Maybe if Putin could run I'd vote for him, but it really looks like the same old 'bought and paid for' crowd.....so once again:

 

[Renaissance]

Maybe if Putin could run I'd vote for him, ...

Putin 2016!

 

[Foxx]

Maybe if Putin could run I'd vote for him, but it really looks like the same old 'bought and paid for' crowd.....so once again:

I suppose people could always write Putin in when voting. That could produce some interesting results if the polls showed Putin having a percentage of the votes!

But otherwise, no, it's all over but the crying for amerika.

 

[Henchman 21]

Look into to politics of Bernie Sanders. He probably doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of making it but from what I can tell he is the best we got.

 

[RobertB]

Maybe if Putin could run I'd vote for him, but it really looks like the same old 'bought and paid for' crowd.....so once again:

I suppose people could always write Putin in when voting. That could produce some interesting results if the polls showed Putin having a percentage of the votes!

But otherwise, no, it's all over but the crying for amerika.

Now, there's a thought! Write-in Vladimir Putin. Make lots of billboards and videos. What a shocker that would be!

 

[T.C.]

There's a guy currently running for leadership of the Labour Party in Britain called Jeremy Corbyn. He was interviewed on RT this week and for a microsecond, I actually allowed myself to hope that he could get in and make a difference. Then I remembered I live in the western, ponerised political system and woke up to the fact that hasn't got snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere.

_http://www.jeremycorbyn.org.uk

 

[Nienna]

The way I see it is that no matter who is "voted" in (not that we really get to vote as the results can be fixed, as we've seen many times), they will either do as told by those who are really in control, or they will be gotten rid of - by either actual killing, or by framing the individual for something and getting them impeached or embarrassing them into resigning.

It's much easier for those in control to just make sure that the only candidates are those who are already conforming to the PTB agenda, which is the case with most candidates. The ones who could really make a difference don't have the backing of the corrupt elements (corporations) behind them to give them the millions of dollars that seem to be what is needed nowadays to have a chance.

 

[luc]

There's a guy currently running for leadership of the Labour Party in Britain called Jeremy Corbyn. He was interviewed on RT this week and for a microsecond, I actually allowed myself to hope that he could get in and make a difference. Then I remembered I live in the western, ponerised political system and woke up to the fact that hasn't got snowball's chance in hell of getting anywhere.

_http://www.jeremycorbyn.org.uk

Yeah, sometimes I have similar feelings when some minor politician talks some sense. But then we must never forget that by voting, we're sending the psychopaths in power the signal that we still believe in the system, that we can "make it alright" by voting. It's a bit like the analogy Stephan Verstappen used in his recent interview with Sott radio: We are held hostage by psychopathic serial killers, and we plead for mercy and offer anything just to get out alive, but all they do is laugh in our face, despise us even more and become even more cruel. They will NEVER release us. We should stop pleading and start plotting our escape.

 

[Mountain Crown]

All things considered, Presidents are very likely appointed, not elected.

 

[Beau]

She's not running for president, but Elizabeth Warren is going around saying a lot of interesting things, although I don't know much about her foreign policy interests.

http://www.sott.net/article/295072-Senator-Elizabeth-Warren-Every-law-protects-the-tender-fannies-of-the-rich-and-powerful
http://www.sott.net/article/259699-Senator-Warren-slams-Republicans-Worry-less-about-helping-big-banks-and-more-about-helping-ordinary-consumers
http://www.sott.net/article/295346-Warren-blasts-Government-for-ignoring-blatantly-criminal-activity-on-Wall-Street
http://www.sott.net/article/289237-Elizabeth-Warren-decimates-head-of-federal-housing-over-failure-to-help-homeowners-facing-foreclosure
http://www.sott.net/article/294406-US-banks-have-temper-tantrum-over-Warrens-calls-to-break-them-up
http://www.sott.net/article/296602-Sen-Warren-releases-Broken-Promises-report-in-face-of-Obamas-TPP-vows

 

[Nienna]

She's not running for president, but Elizabeth Warren is going around saying a lot of interesting things, although I don't know much about her foreign policy interests.

Yeah, she really seems to be for the people, but, here is an article that shows she does support Israel:

http://www.sott.net/article/285120-How-supporting-Israel-undermines-the-US

This distrust in media and government is more consequential than first appears. Realizing that your government and media are lying is a huge political step to take, especially when it's the entire Congress who are voting to support Israel - including so-called "progressive" Democrats Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

But, there could be a reason for it as explained by Stephan M. Walt:
http://www.sott.net/article/282735-Explaining-the-US-governments-morally-bankrupt-policy-toward-Israel-AIPAC-rules-America

Similarly, every member of the House and Senate - including progressives like Senator Elizabeth Warren - knows that voting for those supposedly "pro-Israel" resolutions is the smart political move. They understand that even the slightest display of independent thinking on these issues could leave them vulnerable to a well-funded opponent the next time they're up for re-election. At a minimum, they'll have to answer a flood of angry phone calls and letters, and, on top of that, they are likely to be blackballed by some of their Congressional colleagues. The safer course is to mouth the same tired litanies about alleged "shared values" between Israel and the U.S. and wait till the crisis dies down. And people wonder why no one respects Congress anymore.

And, if by some chance that Paul Craig Roberts was elected president :) (he says that that is nothing more than a dream) he says that in his administration, Elizabeth Warren could have any post she wanted:

http://www.sott.net/article/254308-Paul-Craig-Roberts-Administration-would-have-represented-Americans-not-special-interests-and-foreigners

 

[David]

All things considered, Presidents are very likely appointed, not elected.

Yes, if you wanted your child to go to bed at say 8.00pm, you might give option of 8.00pm or 7.00pm - ‘you can elect 8.00pm or 7.00pm.’ muhahaha!

Probably same with candidates, these days... an American democracy, where money talks, and normal has no money, and not much of a choice.

So Trump, Clinton, or Bush... Pinky and The Brain