O'malley for President? (Clinton: taxes, living in, rich)

[Mr Beco]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

I wouldn't even call it a stall. You named 2 companies. One instance was a merger and not a bankruptcy. There may not be double-digit growth, but in regards to the entire industry, it's hardly a crash and barely a stall. A slowdown maybe?

Front page of the Washington Business Journal.....3/1/2013

44,100 jobs created in Northern Virginia since 2010

32,500 jobs in DC

4300 created in Maryland.....since 2010

Maryland, LEFT BEHIND

nuff said

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Barry Rock

Hillary is not a "shoe-in", obviously its way early, but what makes people think she has it in the bag? First, she's older, second, she is a woman, thats a big second. I guess we broke new ground on Obama, but easy does it, besides, being a front runner is not all that its cracked up to be.

well, if you have a poll that doesn't show hillary blowing every other contender's doors off for 2016, i'd like to see it. the main point she has working against her is age, not sex.
jmo.

[Mr Beco]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

well, if you have a poll that doesn't show hillary blowing every other contender's doors off for 2016, i'd like to see it. the main point she has working against her is age, not sex.
jmo.

first of all, we know polls don't mean squat, or Romney would have won in a landslide.....the General Election is too far away, right now, any poll is just noise. A lot can happen in 4 years

[reiflame]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Not a terrible idea, better than Santorum for President.

O'Malley is the left's answer to people like Santorum. He's just as unelectable in a general election as Santorum is, too.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Khemistry

I swear on everything that is in me... if that pathetic, liberal, tree hugging douchebag (and about a dozen other expletives that I can't post on this forum) not only RUNS for president but is NOMINATED by the democrats for presidency... I will be voting REPUBLICAN for 2016, so it's now on record. And this is coming from a registered democrat, BTW. I don't think I've ever in my life had so many regrets for re-voting for a candidate, as I do for voting for this retard in the last election. As much as I didn't like Ehrlich for his stance on a lot of issues, I now wish I had voted for him. You can tell O'Malley is going to try to run for president. A lot of his actions and especially his disposition in most of his press conferences, speak like a person who's running for president—well, someone who isn't well versed and a noob at best—but the undertone is that he's running for president.

He runs the rich out of the state ... he's an illegal immigrant nuthugger .... he wants to abolish capital punishment ... he does nothing to turn Maryland into a business-friendly state ... taxes seem to be raised on the generally populous every other week ... he is nothing but a disaster wrapped around an even larger disaster. If this arrogant prick runs for presidency, I will launch as big of a campaign as one person can, to get the word out that O'Malley will make Obama and Bush, COMBINED, seemed like the two greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.


Someone mentioned about giving a good speech. I've had to sit through innumerable O' Malley speeches. He does not give good speech.

[EdwardA]

O'Malley has no chance of being the 2016 nominee if Hillary runs and has about a 5% chance if she doesn't.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by Barry Rock

first of all, we know polls don't mean squat, or Romney would have won in a landslide.....the General Election is too far away, right now, any poll is just noise. A lot can happen in 4 years

There were only 2 polls that showed Romney winning in the general. The sites that aggregated all polls (realclearpolitics, Nate Silver) had Obama winning from the beginning. The polls were pretty accurate. Hillary clears the Dem field and pretty much walks into the White House in the general. Of course a lot could happen from now to then but that's what it looks like today.

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

First, biotech crashed? As in auto-industry crashed? That's news to me. Second, unemployment is high in just about every state that doesn't produce oil. Third, are we really concerned with what the rich do? They will always look out for themselves. That's not a demographic I would particularly care about unless they personally employ more than their maids and nannys.

You do realize that regardless of how you feel about the rich, that they pay most of the taxes right?

If you make $100,000 and only pay 10% in taxes, you are paying the government $10,000.

If a rich person making $1,000,000 and they pay 15% in taxes, they are paying $150,000.

Wouldn't you want to do what you can to make sure you have people who are paying that amount of money to stay in the state?

There is a statistic out there that the top 25% of earners in this nation pays 87% of Federal taxes, so when you don't have rich people to pay taxes, there is a huge chunk that is lost.

Originally Posted by adelphi_sky

Fourth, while we do pay higher taxes, Maryland is not in the poor house. Compared with how other governors are doing, Maryland is doing well under the current circumstances. Yes, there are pockets of locations in the state with depressing stats, but overall, I think O'malley could do worse. Lastly, you didn't notice how his TV presence skyrocketed during the presidential campaign. Facetime my friend. He's going to run.

Then why does he keep raising taxes if Maryland is so good financially? Why did he move teacher pensions to local level instead of state?

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by Khemistry

I swear on everything that is in me... if that pathetic, liberal, tree hugging douchebag (and about a dozen other expletives that I can't post on this forum) not only RUNS for president but is NOMINATED by the democrats for presidency... I will be voting REPUBLICAN for 2016, so it's now on record. And this is coming from a registered democrat, BTW. I don't think I've ever in my life had so many regrets for re-voting for a candidate, as I do for voting for this retard in the last election. As much as I didn't like Ehrlich for his stance on a lot of issues, I now wish I had voted for him. You can tell O'Malley is going to try to run for president. A lot of his actions and especially his disposition in most of his press conferences, speak like a person who's running for president—well, someone who isn't well versed and a noob at best—but the undertone is that he's running for president.

He runs the rich out of the state ... he's an illegal immigrant nuthugger .... he wants to abolish capital punishment ... he does nothing to turn Maryland into a business-friendly state ... taxes seem to be raised on the generally populous every other week ... he is nothing but a disaster wrapped around an even larger disaster. If this arrogant prick runs for presidency, I will launch as big of a campaign as one person can, to get the word out that O'Malley will make Obama and Bush, COMBINED, seemed like the two greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

Just curious, why did you vote for him? Is he really doing anything now, that he wasn't already doing?

[ay jayy]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

There were only 2 polls that showed Romney winning in the general. The sites that aggregated all polls (realclearpolitics, Nate Silver) had Obama winning from the beginning. The polls were pretty accurate. Hillary clears the Dem field and pretty much walks into the White House in the general. Of course a lot could happen from now to then but that's what it looks like today.

This.

Hillary is a lock for the Dem nomination if she wants it.