Who will run for President of the United States in 2020?
RepublicansDonald Trump - I don’t need to explain this.Mike Pence - If Trump implodes, resigns, or just leaves Mike Pence steps up. He’s the VP and most of the party leadership actually likes him, as opposed to Trump.John Kasich - If Trump gets impeached, and brings Pence down with him, Kasich is your boy. He’s the anti-Trump. Polite, soft-spoken, and actually gives a damn about policy.DemocratsBernie Sanders - Runner-ups in past primaries often go on to be the next nominee. Bernie also enjoys incredible popularity with the left.Elizabeth Warren - The original left-wing firebrand. If Sanders doesn’t run, she could.Cory Booker - Young, well-connected, charismatic. His presidential ambitions are a matter of when, not if.Kamala Harris - The young upcoming Senator from California. Not only does she excite the Democratic base far more than Clinton did, she has appeal across the spectrum. She embraces Sanders-style reforms without giving the right the immediate perception of 'Socialism.’ (Thank you for the suggestions in the comments)Kirsten Gillenbrand -A popular Senator from NY. She says she isn’t running; don’t believe her. She’s a younger version of Clinton with a lot less baggage.Tim Kaine - He’s boring, but he was also the Democratic nominee for VP. He might bore you, but hell, by 2020, we might crave ‘boring.’This list obviously isn’t comprehensive nor was it intended to be. It’s likely that Republicans will win, and I say that because it’s ALWAYS statistically likely for incumbents to win. Donald Trump is unpopular, incredibly so.But never underestimate Democrats’ ability to screw away their chances, or any political party for that matter.Never.
Why don't Americans want Jeb Bush to be President?
Americans mostly don't want him because he isn't a very good candidate.He is the brother of a former President whose legacy could charitably called "mixed" and should more properly called "a disaster." Despite trying to convince voters that he's his own man, his advisors are largely drawn from a collection of his brother's administration, which suggests that some of the more tragic mistakes of that administration could be repeated.He lacks the affable charm that his brother possessed. He comes of as disconnected and pompous.Despite his reputation as being "the smarter brother", he doesn't act like it. As a for instance, during one of the GOP debates, he tried to corner Rubio on his record of not showing up for Senate votes. Rubio was completely ready for it, and his response caught Bush completely by surprise. Bush looked like he had been struck in the face. It is like he never considered that anyone would fight back.Two Bushes really are probably enough. People mistrust political dynasties.Perhaps most importantly, he's a relic from a Republican party which no longer exists. The days of the "compassionate conservative" are over. The days of a Republican who supports immigration reform are over. Bush isn't a moderate by any means, but he stands to the left of most Republican candidates, and there is only space for candidates on the right.
Who are the next potential US President candidates after Donald Trump?
There are a couple possibilities concerning the people running for office in 2020:My first candidate: Donald TrumpFirst of all Donald Trump, unless impeached, or publicly shamed/forced to step down, will run again for office in 2020, and unless something changes from now to the time of the election Donald may have an overwhelming chance of being re-elected. Even with many once supporters now becoming part of his opposition, the majority of republicans still support Trump and would vote for him in the 2020 election.My Second Candidate: Bernie SandersAlthough Bernie lost in the primaries, he has not stepped away from the limelight. He has continued his term as a senator in Vermont and has continued to make legislature changing decisions. His major opposition to the new Republican Healthcare Bill has also raised his public approval ratings not to mention his view that ObamaCare should not be abolished instead tweaked. If his support continues to stay steady he may run again like Hillary did a year ago.List of Republicans who may run Again:Ted CruzChris ChristiePossibly.. Newt Gingrich? But the chances of him winning are lowMike Pence (not sure if he is eligible)List of Democrats who may run:Dwayne Johnson & Tom Hanks - Hey don’t rule out the pair of actors that announced their candidacy on SNL. For all you know they may run and considering their combined popularity may actually have a chance at winning the DNC’s nominationMichael Bloomberg - Although he has views considered both Republican and Democratic it seems he leans more towards the left and considering the support and the interest from the public in a possible campaign he may just run in 2020.There are probably more Democrats I did not list here comment any you think may run and I’ll add them to the list!!
Is Barack Obama Kenyan like his literary agent said?
No.After reading this, I booked my vacation to Jurassic Park. Please remember that Breitbart - Breitbart News Network is not a news source. It is a propaganda source. It manipulates the truth. Propaganda works best when it uses some verifiable truth to suggest or insinuate that something else is untrue. It also works best when it plays on prejudice and "commonly known" misinformation or "conventional wisdom" which is in error. The people who credit Breitbart with any credibility are the people predisposed to thinking ill of the President and supposing that every bad rumor about the President has some basis in fact. Whether or not the author of Obama's bio made a mistake or intentionally misled anyone (which I doubt), remember that Breitbart and his minions were behind the 2010 smearing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod with a viral video titled "Proof NAACP Awards Racism". "The video showed Sherrod speaking at a NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2010 admitting to a racial reluctance to help a white farmer get government aid." After the snippet, the USDA asked Sherrod to resign, which she did. The NAACP rebuked Sherrod, too. "The NAACP later posted the longer 43-minute video of the speech. In it, Sherrod said her reluctance to help a white man was wrong, and she had ended up assisting him. The NAACP then reversed their rebuke of Sherrod, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack apologized and offered Sherrod a new government position." The snippet of the video was aired in such a way as to show Sherrod as a racist who used government power to hurt a white farmer. In fact, Sherrod DID help the white farmer who credited her with saving his farm. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/20/agriculture.employee.naacp/index.html
Has President Obama, in fact, weakened the US military? If so, how, and to what degree?
I find it incredulous that Americans see themselves as the "policemen of the world". History has shown that every medium to long intervention in the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in either the status quo being preserved after US troops had departed, or a worse, an "unforeseen" option such as ISIS, had filled the void. All with substantial US personnel losses, vast numbers of non-combatant losses and unaccounted-for trillions of missing or wrongly-distributed funds.What President Obama has attempted to do - with extremely limited success - is to streamline US' offense to take account of the new and very real external threats. The offensive against US infrastructure - financial, and more worrying, production (SCADA), water and electrical power reticulation (again, SCADA). The recently announced cut of 40,000 Army troops and 17,000 civilian support personnel, would still leave the Army with 450,000 troops, well over the number required to serve the current never-ending conflicts. The probability that the US would ever be involved in a ground war with either or both China and North Korea is slim - these wars will be fought in a different arena, where the personnel count-to-damage ratio is much higher: Water, Food, Electrical Power reticulation, Satellite destruction or lastly, specialized weaponry (NOT the F-35...).The military is hopefully being streamlined to meet these new threats.As for allocating blame to the Obama Administration's cuts to the military making the military weaker, it does seem that personnel deployed to combat zones now have adequate protection in armor and kevlar. As Mr. Rumsfeld remarked so quaintly "You go to war with what you've got", leaving troops to cobble together armor for their HVs and kevlar for troops. Lastly, The Pentagon was required to submit to an audit in 1996. It has yet to comply with that particular law. Since 1996, $8.5 Trillion is unaccounted for. At the current $610 Billion yearly budget, that would have sustained the status quo for 14 years. Want to Cut Government Waste? Find the $8.5 Trillion the Pentagon Can’t Account For
Why are so many people anti-Trump? People didn't like Obama either, but he was the president, so people didn't do this. What makes Trump different?
Obama was called every name in the book and accused of every crime in the book. I know this because I am a conservative who paid attention to the criticisms of conservatives the whole time (and agreed with a lot of it).However, despite a few indiscretions here and there - such as when he told voters to look upon Republicans as “enemies” - Obama mostly presented himself in a respectable manner. (Though let’s make sure to differentiate between presentation and policy.)Trump, on the other hand, is the guy who responded to Ben Carson challenging him in the polls by calling him a pedophile. And that was hardly an isolated incident. He deals with women who dare oppose him by calling them ugly and disgusting. He frequently throws out insults and stupid accusations at men as well, such as when he questioned Mitt Romney’s religiosity (though Trump himself poses as a Christian when he clearly has never read the Bible) or when he suggested that Ted Cruz was morally compromised because he borrowed money from Wall Street (though Cruz had already paid off those loans and Trump owes massive funds to Wall Street to this day).Trump has said that political correctness is killing the country and that everyone is too thin-skinned. Anyone who agrees with him on that probably should not be so easily offended or distressed when people call Trump names. Trump himself should not be sensitive and thin-skinned either…but the way he reacts to criticism suggests that he is the most thin-skinned and hypersensitive president ever. Can you imagine Obama or Bush throwing a poorly spelled hissy fit on Twitter?And before one demands that the President be respected, one should first demand that the President be respectable.