Martin O'Malley: The Presidency 'Is Not Some Crown To Be Passed Between Two Families'

[still_one]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/29/martin-omalley-presidency_n_6964338.html


"WASHINGTON -- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) spoke about his potential run for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday, seeming to take a shot at the idea of another Clinton in the White House.

"Let's be honest here, the presidency is not some crown to be passed between two families. It is an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people," O'Malley said in an interview on ABC's "This Week."

O'Malley, who was chair of Hillary Clinton's Maryland campaign when she was running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2007, said on Sunday he then thought Clinton was the best nominee "for those times."

"I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed," O'Malley said."

In my view it would serve the interests of those who would want Elizabeth Warren to run, even though she has consistently said she will not run for President in 2016, to look at potential candidates who have NOT ruled it out

[Agschmid]

1. Thems fighting words...

[Warpy]

2. Indeed and it's high time our royals heard a few of them.

Otherwise, we're looking at a president John Prescott Bush in a few years and he's llkely the worst of the whole bunch.

O'Malley talks a good fight but his records haven't quite measured up to his rhetorical populism.

I'm hoping he's the first of several candidates. We need a primary, not a coronation.

[awake]

3. What part of his record is problematic

I am just be gaining to look at him so please enlighten us.

[Agschmid]

4. I've heard taxes and some fourth amendment stuff...

However to me nothing really stands out as a negative.

[awake]

5. where did he keep his email

[Agschmid]

6. Who said he kept any of it?

Haha

[woo me with science]

7. Corporatism makes a mockery of democracy and transfer of power.

Corporatism is the ruling elite's answer to the problem of democracy replacing monarchy.

Democratic government was supposed to solve the problem of monarchy: the hoarding of wealth by a ruling elite over generations.

The goal of corporatism is to grow/transfer/redirect and SUSTAIN the wealth of this nation in the hands of a tiny, privileged elite, notwithstanding the propagandized illusion of democracy and transfer of power. It is the equivalent of monarchy, just wearing a slick democracy costume.

The Clintons and the Bushes are not the ruling elite, but they have close ties to it and are/will be handsomely rewarded for their service to it. They are not the dynasty itself (Think Rockefellers, Rothschilds...), but the corrupt, purchased political product of it; if we don't get a Clinton or a Bush, we get an Obama or a Romney. As long as our government is purchased by this fraction of the One Percent, there will always be more corrupt corporate-political puppets being groomed and waiting in the wings.

For their service in entrenching, legalizing, sustaining, and growing this monied corruption at the expense of the 99 percent, they and their children will never have to worry about anything for the rest of their lives.


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As far as I can see, Bernie Sanders is the ONLY potential candidate speaking truthfully about the oligarchy.



That is why I believe the PTB would stop at nothing, and I mean nothing, to marginalize and if necessary end his candidacy.

Elizabeth Warren's message on economics is important and welcome. But even her policy agenda does not clearly challenge the wars and the surveillance/police state that are dismantling democracy in this nation.

We don't just need to be more economically comfortable within an authoritarian state. We need restoration of our democracy and our Bill of Rights.

We need reform of our elections. We need restoration of our civil liberties. We need an end to the surveillance state and the militarization of our police forces, and the private prison industry, and the endless wars for profit.