Martin O'Malley enters the race

[IGotWorms 3,310]

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BALTIMORE In another campaign year, Martin OMalleys résumé and good looks might be irresistible to Democratic primary voters. He is a former big-city mayor whose story of renewal in Baltimore seemed well tailored to an increasingly urban and minority party. He is a former two-term governor of Maryland and the lead singer and guitarist in a rock n roll band.

 

But Mr. OMalley is running in an election cycle in which Democratic elected officials and donors have overwhelmingly focused attention on Hillary Rodham Clinton. And he already faces competition from Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont for the support of liberals who dislike Mrs. Clinton or merely want to see her pushed further to the left.

 

After a two-year exploratory phase, Mr. OMalley, 52, on Saturday began to make a case for why Democrats should bet on him instead of on Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Sanders, who has captured early enthusiasm among progressives as an authentic populist.

 

Today, the American dream seems for so many of us to be hanging by a thread, he said in formally announcing his candidacy before hundreds of supporters under a baking sun in Federal Hill Park in Baltimores Inner Harbor, with the towers of the citys downtown behind him.

I'm interested in learning more about him but it's hard to imagine that he will gain any real traction. Also I suspect he is running for VP more than anything else

[Baker Boy 1,484]

He is talking about rebuilding America. It is fitting since he is one of the people who have helped tear it down.

[Sho Nuff 719]

phurfur with a negative opinion about a democrat? say it ain't so

[NewbieJr 540]

phurfur with a negative opinion about a democrat? say it ain't so

phurfur with a vague, uninformed expression about politics? Say it ain't so

[Magnificent Bastard 190]

He is talking about rebuilding America. It is fitting since he is one of the people who have helped tear it down.

 

Care to inform us of your big contributions?

[MDC 5,890]

Care to inform us of your big contributions?

BB retired early cause he doesn't like Obummer and lives off his schoolteacher wife's public pension.

[RLLD 3,455]

His zero tolerance policy ensured the courts and jails were always choked full of people, mostly minorities. He loved to spend money, though he would up with little show for it. His policies were always suspect, and he would change his mind with alarming frequency and speed.

 

Charismatic, talks a good talk, but there is little behind it all, other than looking for what is in it for him.

[RLLD 3,455]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gov-martin-omalley-leadership-needed-rein-wall-street/story?id=31418746

“I'm saying that what we need [is] new leadership… to actually rein in excesses on Wall Street,” O’Malley told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, when asked if Clinton and Bush are beholden to the “bullies” of Wall Street. “And I do believe that, yes – the old leadership of our country was very often deeply engaged with Wall Street.”

 

 

So he is retreading stuff from like, 6 years ago? Yawn.

[Voltaire 4,556]

We'll see. Ready for anybody but Hillary with the Dems. I don't know much about him but apparently he's running to Hillary's left. If they're going to find somebody to hit her from the left rather than the center, I'd have thought Bernie filled that role well. That guy's a lot of fun. Still, if a Dem dark horse emerges, I'd much prefer a centrist like Jim Webb or Lincoln Chaffee, that' be far more ideal. With Dem (and GOP) primary voters though, you never get a centrist. You get what they give you then decide which one smells less bad.

[MedStudent 56]

I don't see how anyone seriously thinks Bernie Sanders will be any kind of player in the Democrat Primaries. Sanders is the Democrat version of Michelle Backman. Too far to the edge for most voters. Hillary will have quite a war chest but I still think another Democrat will step up and run and beat her. I don't know anything about this O'Malley. I still think a bigger name will step forward.

[Magnificent Bastard 190]

I don't see how anyone seriously thinks Bernie Sanders will be any kind of player in the Democrat Primaries. Sanders is the Democrat version of Michelle Backman. Too far to the edge for most voters. Hillary will have quite a war chest but I still think another Democrat will step up and run and beat her. I don't know anything about this O'Malley. I still think a bigger name will step forward.

Bernie is just like Bachman? You can find a better example. I know you can, don't be lazy. I know he's to the extreme( not really, but I'll play) but Bachman is stupid and backwards and only was only a congressperson. Bernie is a U.S. Senator who chairs or sits on many important committees. You should ask veterans how they feel about the radical Bernie Sanders.

[Voltaire 4,556]

Bernie is just like Bachman? You can find a better example. I know you can, don't be lazy. I know he's to the extreme( not really, but I'll play) but Bachman is stupid and backwards and only was only a congressperson. Bernie is a U.S. Senator who chairs or sits on many important committees. You should ask veterans how they feel about the radical Bernie Sanders.

I'm thinking Al Sharpton is better suited for the role of aDem Michelle Bachman.

[IGotWorms 3,310]

Bernie is just like Bachman? You can find a better example. I know you can, don't be lazy. I know he's to the extreme( not really, but I'll play) but Bachman is stupid and backwards and only was only a congressperson. Bernie is a U.S. Senator who chairs or sits on many important committees. You should ask veterans how they feel about the radical Bernie Sanders.

This. Bernie is maybe like Rand Paul if you must make a cross-aisle comparison

[MDC 5,890]

This. Bernie is maybe like Rand Paul if you must make a cross-aisle comparison

Bernie vs Rand would be the greatest election season ever.

[KSB2424 3,083]

This. Bernie is maybe like Rand Paul if you must make a cross-aisle comparison

it depends on how you define a centrist Republican. Rand Paul is different but if we are talking far right republican, Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum fit the bill. For the Dems, Bernie is more left on the spectrum than Hillary, so Medstudents (or whoever that is) analogy fit.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

O'Malley is a traditional tax and spender. Left a sizable deficit when he left the governorship. MD voters went Republican after O'Malley, that should tell the rest of the US all they need to know of what Marylanders think about the guy. Very pro-immigration, anti-gun, pro environment, anti-business.

[IGotWorms 3,310]

it depends on how you define a centrist Republican. Rand Paul is different but if we are talking far right republican, Cruz, Huckabee, Santorum fit the bill. For the Dems, Bernie is more left on the spectrum than Hillary, so Medstudents (or whoever that is) analogy fit.

I don't think any of those fit

[MedStudent 56]

(or whoever that is)

 

Whats that suppose to mean?

[Vikings4ever 496]

This. Bernie is maybe like Rand Paul if you must make a cross-aisle comparison

I put him more Ron Paul, as Rand is a bit more mainstream GOP than his father.

[MedStudent 56]

my analogy had more to do with a far left hot candidate vs a former far right hot candidate. Sanders is a pretender not a contender just like Bachmann was. If you remember, Bachmann was winning straw polls in Iowa but ended up sixth in the Iowa caucus, then she quit. Sanders, a self described socialist, is the hot candidate of the liberal left but he'll be gone early in the race.

 

I'm still hoping for someone like Mark Warner to enter the race.

[KSB2424 3,083]

 

Whats that suppose to mean?

You know what I mean....edjr.

[IGotWorms 3,310]

my analogy had more to do with a far left hot candidate vs a former far right hot candidate. Sanders is a pretender not a contender just like Bachmann was. If you remember, Bachmann was winning straw polls in Iowa but ended up sixth in the Iowa caucus, then she quit. Sanders, a self described socialist, is the hot candidate of the liberal left but he'll be gone early in the race.

 

I'm still hoping for someone like Mark Warner to enter the race.

 

You may have a point but I still resist the analogy since Bernie Sanders is not batsh1t insane.

[Magnificent Bastard 190]

O'Malley is a traditional tax and spender. Left a sizable deficit when he left the governorship. MD voters went Republican after O'Malley, that should tell the rest of the US all they need to know of what Marylanders think about the guy. Very pro-immigration, anti-gun, pro environment, anti-business.

Anti business? How? I doubt any successful politician is what anybody could term as anti-business.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Anti business? How? I doubt any successful politician is what anybody could term as anti-business.

Go ask the folks at Marriott. Neighboring Virginia and Delaware are business friendly, MD is not. High taxes, high regulation, high activism. MD is an odd place, it's main source of tax revenue comes from folks who work in DC. It's one major city is a welfare state. It is not a self sustaining state, and it's left leaning politicians have no desire to make it one. O'Malleys single achievement was to stop folks from Baltimore from killing each other. He did it a la Guiliani, by doubling cops and giving them free rein. Not a popular position these days.

[MedStudent 56]

 

You may have a point but I still resist the analogy since Bernie Sanders is not batsh1t insane.

There are some sanders quotes out there that are as batshite insane as anything that Bachmann ever said.

[MedStudent 56]

You know what I mean....edjr.

My god. Does anyone seriously think that? This bored needs an enema if that's the case.