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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 09, 2010, 03:57:24 PM
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...run for president!
Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 03:56 PM
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If Michael Moore Would Run for President
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-3
If Michael Moore would run for President in 2012, it could be a game-changer in American political life. For starters, it would likely shorten the war in Afghanistan by at least six months, and the American and Afghan lives that would be saved would alone justify the effort.
If Moore announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination now, and followed up that announcement with a vigorous campaign focused on the struggles of rank-and-file Democrats, it would re-mobilize rank-and-file Democratic activists. It's possible that he might even win; but win or lose, the campaign could arrest and reverse the current rightward, pro-corporate trajectory of our national politics, which is the predictable consequence of the failure of Team Obama to deliver on its promises from 2008, which in turn was the predictable consequence of the doomed effort to try to serve two masters: Wall Street and Main Street.
Like few people with his political views, Michael Moore needs no introduction to the Democratic primary electorate. To most rank-and-file Democrats, the name Michael Moore stands for a set of progressive populist ideas: health care for all, workers' rights, opposition to Wall Street's stranglehold on Washington, closing down the wars of empire and bringing our troops home.
In 1984 and 1988, the Jesse Jackson campaigns showed what could be accomplished running a populist, issue-based, movement campaign in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. In 1984, Jackson got more than 3 million votes, a fifth of the total, and won 5 primaries and caucuses. In 1988, he got almost 7 million votes and won seven primaries and four caucuses; at one point, following his victory in the Michigan caucus, he was ahead in delegates.
Of course, the progressive Jackson campaigns had a particular starting point: their base in the African-American community. But a Michael Moore campaign would also have a starting point: his status as an international progressive populist rock star. The moment that Michael Moore says, "I am a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2012," it's a live proposition. And Moore would have tools for getting out his message -- videos and the internet -- that the Jackson campaign didn't have in 1988.
Like few American progressives of his prominence, Moore has the ability to connect with and mobilize working-class anger at Washington and Wall Street.
moore...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7675661
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He's right. It would be a game changer. The Republicans wouldn't have to spend a penny on advertisements and the election would still be sealed.
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Lard-Ass would have a heart attack the first month of campaigning.
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Any one else see the irony how the DUmmies call Rush fat when they worship Mikey Moore?
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People are beginning to laugh out loud at the ridiculousness that is Barracks Obamo.......and now the Little Goons want to replace him with a fatass money-loser phony who people have been laughing at for quite some time now?
OK. I like it!
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Now that's funny! Ya think he might spend his money on the campaign? :lmao:
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Yeah that would sure be the ticket there ,fat assed Michael Moore against Sarah Palin. That fat **** can't find his way past a McDonalds without eating everything in sight. While he was still busy stuffing himself in New Hampshire ,Sarah would be in California wrapping up her primaries and off to the White House.
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Moore would never give up his ability to make money at the expense of fools.
He is a capitalist that wouldn`t ever let his life open to the scrutiny it would involve.
He is a hypocrite to the Nth degree.
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die.
Oh, this wasn't fill in the blank?
Sorry.
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Micheal Moore????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!1
Moore hasn't seen his feet in ten years, and you think he can run for pres?????
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
Now that's funny right there! I don't care who ya are!
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If Michael Moore Would Run for President choke to death trying to swllow an entire ham.
Fixx3d.
Actually though, if he did run for President, it would be a pretty great thing for our side. Maybe the DUmmie has a point after all.
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One good fart from Moore would raise the planet's temperature by five degrees.
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What was Moore know about the rank and file? About as much as the union bosses who have palaces and golf courses know the workers.
Michael Moore in 2012 would be the biggest political joke in history.
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Moore/Franken 2012! Who's with me?
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Moore would get the crackpot vote. Without them, the democrat party doesn't stand a chance.
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Moore would get the crackpot vote. Without them, the democrat party doesn't stand a chance.
And with them, the Democrat Party doesn't stand a chance with independents.
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You see, being a normal, rational human being, I just can't wrap my head around someone who reads some whacko article in commondreams about fatboy running for prez and thinks "Oh, that's brilliant. Let me go post it on the DUmp." :mental:
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 03:56 PM
Original message
If Michael Moore Would Run for President
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-3
If Michael Moore would run for President in 2012, it could be a game-changer in American political life. For starters, it would likely shorten the war in Afghanistan by at least six months, and the American and Afghan lives that would be saved would alone justify the effort.
If Moore announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination now, and followed up that announcement with a vigorous campaign focused on the struggles of rank-and-file Democrats, it would re-mobilize rank-and-file Democratic activists. It's possible that he might even win...
BWAHahahaha...which one of you wrote this? Too frickin' funny. No one could actually believe this...
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Moore would get the crackpot vote. Without them, the democrat party doesn't stand a chance.
Michael Moron would get 100% of that vote, which means the other candidate would win the race with 99.925% of the vote....
Discounting for exit polling, of course....
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Just when I think I've reached the pinnacle of the lunacy of the DUmp, they surprise me every morning. I rowed over to see. The first few replies were common-sensical, to their credit. Then:
harun (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 11:08 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. Threatening to do it is productive, however. Obama and Congress
can pass Progressive legislation like they were elected to do and then the Progressives won't be so pissed.
Then, we see this guy again. Pretty funny.
OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #27
28. Michael Moore could not pull 0.1% of the vote from Obama.
He's not a politician. He has no legislative or governing experience. Such a third party candidate would not even get an invitation to the debates... let alone get to participate in one. It's hard enough for senators/representatives to get elected because of their voting records... Moore's views, slants, semi-truths, and ultra-liberal positions espoused over the years essentially damage him beyond repair for any sort of election. He is an aesthetically unpleasing overweight pop-culture figure who produces (at best) borderline intellectually dishonest "documentaries".
He would pull zero conservative votes, zero moderate votes, few liberal votes, and maybe a non-negligible portion of the left-wing radical votes. Figure about 1.2-1.5 million popular votes per percentage. No, Michael Moore is not a threat. A Blueberry Muffin could point out Obama's deficiencies on campaign promises... that would not make the breakfast pastry a viable candidate for replacement though.
OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 11:57 AM
Response to Original message
18. Moore versus Limbaugh... I'd love to see that campaign.
Man would it get UGLY.
I think Rush would edge out Moore though.
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harun (1000+ posts)
Tue Feb-09-10 11:08 AM
Response to Reply #3
7. Threatening to do it is productive, however. Obama and Congress
can pass Progressive legislation like they were elected to do and then the Progressives won't be so pissed.
:wtf2:
I thought President 0bama was a centrist?
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Would be great to see the fat M&M kid run and how despondent would the dump get when we started busting mikeys chops with this news item
After Attacking Tax Credit for Movie Makers, Michael Moore Asks Struggling Michigan to Give Him the Tax Credit to Help Cover Cost of Anti-Capitalist Movi
(CNSNews.com) – Filmmaker Michael Moore has been approved to receive a refundable tax credit of up to $1 million from the State of Michigan Film Office for his 2009 documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,†and a Republican state senator in Michigan wants her state's money back. Two years ago, Moore attacked the movie-subsidizing program for giving "free money" to corporations
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/60743
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Well, that's interesting, Claret. It does not surprise me in the least. If you look up hypocrisy in the dictionary, you see a picture of fat mike. It astounds me that DUmpers are consistently blind to it.
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-09-10 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #27
28. Michael Moore could not pull 0.1% of the vote from Obama.
He's not a politician. He has no legislative or governing experience. Such a third party candidate would not even get an invitation to the debates... let alone get to participate in one. It's hard enough for senators/representatives to get elected because of their voting records... Moore's views, slants, semi-truths, and ultra-liberal positions espoused over the years essentially damage him beyond repair for any sort of election. He is an aesthetically unpleasing overweight pop-culture figure who produces (at best) borderline intellectually dishonest "documentaries".
He would pull zero conservative votes, zero moderate votes, few liberal votes, and maybe a non-negligible portion of the left-wing radical votes. Figure about 1.2-1.5 million popular votes per percentage. No, Michael Moore is not a threat. A Blueberry Muffin could point out Obama's deficiencies on campaign promises... that would not make the breakfast pastry a viable candidate for replacement though.
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If Only Michael Moore Would...stop eating we could feed the world.