Posted on 03/18/2015 7:23:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
At a moment when everybody in Washington is talking about e-mails, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley (D) wants to talk about Wall Street reform.
Indeed, while Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address at the State Department has created a media frenzy and overshadowed other issues, the past week brought additional news in the Democratic primary: O'Malley is almost certainly running for president.
And he's determined to make his voice heard despite some pundits dismissing his ability to mount a "credible" challenge to Clinton for the party's nomination.
The swirl of controversy surrounding Clinton has not only called her inevitability into question but also given much of the media an excuse to focus on optics rather than policy coverage, which is just one of the reasons O'Malley's emergence is a positive development. A contested Democratic primary will be good for the country, good for the party, good for democracy and good for driving issues that might otherwise be ignored into the election.
Since leaving office in January, O'Malley has been traveling the country and laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign. During recent visits to Kansas, New Hampshire and elsewhere, O'Malley has delivered a progressive populist message. Specifically, he has called for reinstating Glass-Steagall banking regulations, hiking the capital gains tax, increasing the minimum wage, raising the threshold for overtime pay and strengthening collective bargaining rights.
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Yuck.
I picked O’Malley as one of two candidates for the Dems. Like I’ve said all along....The party will pull someone out of their .....just like they did with Obama. The other dude I selected is a Sen from Ct.
He must of done a terrible job as governor in MD. MD now has a GOP governor, a rarity in that deep blue state.
..until a few of Hilda’s illegal emails with content planning O’Imashitbird rise to power emerge
RE: The other dude I selected is a Sen from Ct.
Why not the governor of New York?
Or the lady senator from Massachusetts?
Why don’t the Dems just dig up Che Guevera and run him for Prez?
Most of them already have his T-Shirt.....
Wow, he’s a walking, talking, economic catastrophy...
perhaps they should see if Angela Davis is free?
Mumia 2016?
He must of done a terrible job as governor in MD.
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Put it this way: if you love paying taxes, you’ll love Maryland.
Yes, when you said that I copied it down... looked up an article where the rats gave him a standing o and recalled that was Obama’s intro too.
More seldom-mentioned Dems known to be interested and have backers -
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear
Montana’s Democratic governor Steve Bullock
New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen
ang younger folks New Jersey’s Cory Booker, New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich and Colorado’s Michael Bennett
He has no chance. The democrat party can never again nominate a white male for president.
Then he’s the perfect Dem candidate.................
As left wing and as liberal as Clinton is she is nowhere lefty enough for the Marxists now in power. She walks to her own drumbeat which is more for Ms. Clinton and not more for Karl Marx. It is why President (ProTem) Jarrett has blown the whistle on her and opened the door for a more dedicated Marxist to fill the shoes of the Muslim-in-Chief.
Don’t bet on it.
Hillary! is toast................
Part of it was that O’Mutley’s designated heir, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, was just about the stupidest biped on the planet. Listening to this man speak was an exercise in masochism.
But, O'Mutley was a pretty bad governor. And Larry Hogan ran a pretty darned good campaign.
sitetest
Dems like pretty boys....
Here comes Liawatha!, Harvard simpleton.
The other dude is Christopher Murphy. I’d say O’Malley’s vp.
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