This line-up of future Presidents would make some heads explode. All over the place.

[Mira]

It makes me smile to see this bumper sticker. I just might have to make some of those (I can, you know

[gopiscrap]

1. I like that

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The summersaults among the Founders graves are now epic

[DavidDvorkin]

3. How silly

Hillary is looking more and more like a candidate, but what makes the others likely candidates?

[Mira]

11. It's meant, in my opinion

more as a hopeful blueprint of more women being aspirants, and maybe winners.
I hope I live long enough to see what we women could do at the helm.

[roguevalley]

54. because we are a monarchy now

[LanternWaste]

96. I think we elect on merit, rather than deny due to genetics.

I think we elect on merit, rather than deny due to genetics. However, I do understand how the small-minded may believe that denying a candidate due to genetics, marriage, or heritage is in fact, a democracy...

The stupid is dead... long live the stupid.

[roguevalley]

101. small minded. stupid. Really? Thanks loads.

[TeeYiYi]

4. k+r for the heads exploding entertainment value. ..nt

TYY

[left on green only]

8. My Head Sure Did Explode

The first time I read it all I could think of for Michelle was Michelle Bachman

[TeeYiYi]

9. Really? Interesting. ..nt

TYY

[calimary]

90. Nah - only one "L" in michele bachmann.

Michelle Obama has two "L's".

[madinmaryland]

5. Hi, graham4whatever!!

[LuvNewcastle]

75. That fucking fool was the first thing I thought of.

[progressoid]

77. ***snort***

[earthside]

6. Including liberal democrats.

The presidency isn't a family institution ... we rejected aristocracy 237 years ago.

(That's small 'd' democrats as in believers of the sovereignty of the people.)

[lancer78]

37. Aristocracy is back baby!

Citizens United has allowed a de facto "Nobility" to arise in America. It took 232 years but the aristocrats have won the American revolution. Fat Tony and the Rapist, as well as the other conservative Justices, are the destroyers of America.

[alfredo]

89. The antebellum south was an aristocracy, and that is what their current leaders are supporting with

Citizens United, estate tax Repeal, and trickle down.

[Tx4obama]

7. Cute :) But it's more likely some of the folks listed below will be running in some of those years

The new upcoming generation

Wendy Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Davis_%28politician%29

Kirsten Gillibrand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand

Alison Lundergan Grimes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Lundergan_Grimes

Cory Booker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

Julian Castro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro

Joaquin Castro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Castro


I wish I was 30 years younger so that I would be able to see 'more' of what happens in the distant future

[Mira]

13. Yes, cute, and yes to the lineup and

yes to wishing I were younger for that reason and a few additional ones.

[DireStrike]

16. Gillebrand has some nice points socially, but she's a blue dog.

Booker is pretty centrist, isn't he? Grimes would have to beat turtleface first. Dunno about the rest.

[tomg]

40. Actually, as a member of the

House she was a blue dog ( and it was one of the reasons I was strongly opposed to her initial appointment). I have to admit, I have been very pleasantly surprised by her actions in the senate, and, I believe, she is most closely allied with the Progressive Caucus.

[totodeinhere]

42. Gillebrand may be a Bluedog but that doesn't necessarily

disqualify her from becoming president. The same applies to Booker. It might be wishful thinking to assume that only progressives will become future presidents.

[chillfactor]

35. same here...

I am much too old to be around when all of the excitement breaks out..unless I live to be 100....

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. So you want to amend the constitution and bring in hereditary monarchy?

[Mira]

14. No, I just wanted you to turn in today

with a smile on your face.

[LanternWaste]

98. Would that be under or above the amendment that denies candidacy solely due to genetics...?

Would that be under or above the amendment that denies candidacy solely due to genetics...?


Six of one, half a dozen of the other (insert distinction without a difference here)

[truebluegreen]

12. I'm laughing at you.

[idwiyo]

15. Say Hi to G4A. Talking about nutcases...

[X_Digger]

18. No kidding.. shades of socks, perhaps? n/t

[Dragonfli]

20. I don't know, Third-Way Royal Loyalist idwiyo would aprove and even be inspired to RETURN the Royals

to a governing throne across the pond in Great Britain.

I can see you are not nearly as serious and pragmatic as she is.

[Dragonfli]

17. Yes! Modern Monarchies are to die for, fuck Democracy, I long for the pre revolution days myself.

It wouldn't even be a sense of royal entitlement if the families were truly entitled to rule by birth either, simply superior noble blood being allowed it's proper place by birth rite.

I swoon to think of the lavish crowns and jewelry; the pomp and beauty of royal weddings that would make the British figuerheads look like trailer park peasants in comparison!

Well done, something, finally, worth fighting for.

[winter is coming]

19. All it does is tell me that somewhere, there's a bumpersticker-maker making a living

off of someone else's fantasy life.

[stevenleser]

21. You certainly got the humor-free brigade up in arms. nt

[lunasun]

28. +:)

[Pretzel_Warrior]

34. No kidding. Jaysus people!!!

It's just a silly bumper sticker.

[stevenleser]

68. What Mira inadvertently did with this OP is to attract DU's most unreasonable and

humor-less people to expose themselves as such.

It's fascinating really. Michelle, Sasha, Malia and Chelsea are never going to run for President. It's a joke, a joke aimed at pissing off misogynistic right wingers who might read it.

It's not a call for these folks to actually be President, or some advocacy for dynasties or other such nonsense.

[Mira]

82. Just saw this, and am laughing almost uncontrallably with you

and I thank you for speaking for me so eloquently.

[stevenleser]

83. It's funny and so sad at the same time.

Some people take themselves so seriously they cannot get over themselves.

I know what happened here. A lot of the folks who don't like Hillary have latched on to the whole "Dynasties are bad for Democracy" meme as part of what they intend to use in their arsenal of arguments against her and so they are thinking that way already whenever they see Hillary's name.

Then the bumper sticker listed the other folks, which to most normal people really makes it an obvious joke, but these folks are so anti-Hillary they can't get their minds into joke mode after seeing her name. It's like waving a red cape in front of a bull and then expecting that bull to behave rationally right afterwards. It's not going to happen, the bull is just going to try to lash out.

That's what we have here. These folks who lashed out against you and your OP lost it for a silly bumper sticker whose intent flew a billion miles over their heads because of their single-minded anti-Hillary agenda.

[chillfactor]

36. agreed..some people have no sense of humor......

sheesh..it is just a silly bumper sticker for god's sake!

[BootinUp]

43. don't take much!

[Notafraidtoo]

51. you said it.

Calm down people this isn't serious, all these people attacking this wow.

[JoePhilly]

65. +1

[LanternWaste]

99. light-hardhearted humor can be sooo difficult for the more-cynical-than-thou crowd to see as anythin

Kinda what I was thinking.

However, it *is* Monday... and light-hardhearted humor can be sooo difficult for the more-cynical-than-thou crowd to see as anything *but* a monarchy.

[alfredo]

22. Elizabeth Warren?

[TDale313]

33. Yes, please. Can we draft her?

[alfredo]

38. She has to be willing to do the job.

[MissMillie]

84. Hard to argue w/ that one

She's great!

[alfredo]

88. I bet she stays in Congress. It's a good gig.

[pscot]

23. By 2048

It may be hard to find anyone who wants the job.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. will we exist as a sovereign country by then?

I am beginning to have my doubts

[tblue37]

24. No. I hate the idea of political dynasties and royal families.

Just because someone is rich and famous or has a connection to someone who held high office, that does not make them a suitable president--or anything else. Each person should have to earn the position himself or herself.

I also hate the idea of one Bush after another taking such positions.

[Shemp Howard]

52. Excellent post tblue (and question for all)

Here's my question for all: Would Chelsea Clinton or Michelle Obama make a good President?

If you answered "yes" for either person, then you are seriously part of the problem with this country. For you really have no idea what either one of them stands for. Yet you are willing to cast a vote based on their names alone.

The only proper answer to my question is: "Maybe. It depends on what their positions on the major issues are."

[Wilms]

25. American Idol!

No wonder this country is in such sad shape.

[JDPriestly]

26. Looks like the royal family. No thanks.

That is one of the reasons that I oppose nominating Hillary for 2016.

We had enough of a dynasty with Bush II. Never, never, never again.

We need to move forward, not try to relive the past. That is what a Hillary presidency would mean. I know a lot of us liked Bill Clinton when he was president, but we need someone for our time, not a Clinton wife. No to dynasties.

That's Roman Empireish. No thanks.

[Brother Buzz]

27. Not gonna happen

Chelsea Clinton would never relinquish her Chief Justice seat on the Supreme Court.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

30. Enjoy your very short stay. nt

[greyl]

46. I think you may have missed the joke.

This thread is about making right-wing heads explode, correct?

[Tx4obama]

55. Yeah, I had thought it was a joke too. A way to get Obama a third term to upset the GOPers :)

[DevonRex]

31. I love the all female lineup. How about some Latinas in the mix too?

Who do we have?

[Tx4obama]

44. Below is a list of current 27 members of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus

Looks like SEVEN females (?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Hispanic_Caucus#Membership

Membership
Officers

Chair: Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15) (D)
1st Vice Chair Ben Ray Luján (NM-3) (D)
2nd Vice Chair Linda Sanchez (CA-38) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_S%C3%A1nchez
Whip Michelle Luján Grisham (NM-1) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Luj%C3%A1n_Grisham

Other Membership
Current

Xavier Becerra (CA-31) (D)
Tony Cardenas (CA-29) (D)
Joaquin Castro (TX-20) (D)
Jim Costa (CA-20) (D)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) (D)
Pete Gallego (TX-23) (D)
Joe Garcia (FL-26) (D)
Raúl Grijalva (AZ-07) (D)
Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-04) (D)
Senator Bob Menéndez (NJ-D)
Grace Napolitano (CA-38) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Napolitano
Gloria Negrete McLeod (CA-35) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Negrete_McLeod
Ed Pastor (AZ-04) (D)
Pedro Pierluisi (PR-At large) (D)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Roybal-Allard
Raul Ruiz (CA-36) (D)
Gregorio Sablan (MP-At large) (D)
Loretta Sánchez (CA-46) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez
José Serrano (NY-16) (D)
Albio Sires (NJ-13) (D)
Nydia Velázquez (NY-12) (D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nydia_Vel%C3%A1zquez
Juan Vargas (CA-51) (D)
Filemon Vela, Jr. (TX-34) (D)

[DevonRex]

47. Filemon Vela, born in my hometown...

Harlingen, TX. Now lives in Brownsville. Looks pretty good. Of course I'm impartial to The Valley. Solid Democrats there. I'd love to go back someday. Can you guys wrest the state away from the nuts?

[Tx4obama]

48. Vela's wiki pages says...

-snip-

For the past 22 years, Filemon has been married to his lovely and accomplished wife, Judge Rose Vela.[11] Rose was a Republican justice on Texas’ 13th Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2012.

-snip-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filemon_Vela,_Jr.

I would love to hear the political discussions that take place at the dinner table in that house

[DevonRex]

50. Oh my. Did she do that to get the appointment?

Or did he run as a Democrat because only Democrats get elected in The Valley?

[DevonRex]

49. OK, Michelle Lujan Grisham.

She'll pull in a lot of votes from TX, AZ, CO, NM, UT and CA. We know her name already. That's a plus!

[redgreenandblue]

56. How about some non-dynasty females?

[DevonRex]

102. Sure. And let's be honest, no indication any Obama women want to run for anything.

So no dynasty there. And Chelsea doesn't seem inclined either. It's all for fun.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

32. I'm going to keep this on hand until the next time someone whines about "dynasties"

Just to give them further palpitations.

[Coyotl]

41. logo

[longship]

45. A counter example.

So! The US Presidency is passed on by blood. I am not dumb. I really thought the USA resolved this on July 4, 1776.

Enough of this rubbish!

If that's what people want, so be it. Try this on for size:

2016: Bush
2020: Bush
2024: Bush
2028: Bush
2032: Bush
2036: Bush
... Etc.

After all, if your parent or your spouse was a president, you've earned the right to that office.

What the OP suggests is counter to democratic principles on which our country was founded.

[Mira]

59. It was about WOMEN - not about lineage - and a pretty good joke.

It was to get you to laugh while some seeds of thought get sown.

One thing I notice about the Republicans I am in contact with is their inability to recognize beauty in things and their inability to enjoy clever humor. Let's not become like them.

[Demo_Chris]

61. No it was not about women...

It was about political dynasties. I think we need a whole lot less cult of personality, and a whole lot more government of, by, and FOR the people.

[stevenleser]

70. No, it's not. It's not about how you see it and you are not the target.

The target is misogynistic right wingers who will recognize all of these people as not only Liberals/Democrats (or family members of Liberals/Democrats) who they hate but female Liberals/Democrats.

[Demo_Chris]

85. You are claiming it was simply a coincidence that they ignored every non-dynastic female...

To focus on these select individuals and at these select dates. They ignored QUALIFIED females in order to showcase women -- or, in this case pre-teens, who's only qualification is their right of birth, suggesting that that's how women earn it.

That's sexist as hell.

But, of course, the sticker isn't intended to be sexist -- that part is unintentional. Rather, it's a joke intended to troll people. But it's insulting to women in general and to liberalism as a movement. Liberals don't select people because their daddy's were famous and had a cool cult of personality thing going for them, we select our candidates because they were the best for the job.

[stevenleser]

87. LMAO, please, you have me in tears. Let me put it to you this way

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3936636

What is a more likely possibility to you. That the bumper sticker is a simplistic joke aimed at your average right winger who might see it on the roadway, or that it is a complex conspiracy aimed at overturning the democratic order of the country and replacing it with a hereditary monarchy from the Clinton and Obama families to include two adults who show little desire to run for political office and two children.

I suggest you think that over.

[Demo_Chris]

91. Of COURSE it's just a joke Steve...

That's all that ever needed to be said. I only responded to the people suddenly claiming that it was somehow more than that, that it was a message of women's empowerment of some such nonsense. Well, two can play the spin game.

On a more serious note, I don't think jokes or messages like this help us though. Not a big deal obviously, but we should try not to even give the appearance of choosing style and connections over substance. Leave the dynasty garbage to the GOP and elect the best we can from our more than capable pool of candidates. Hillary, whether you support her or not, is objectively qualified -- the only thing missing from her resume is a governorship, and I think she has that covered as first lady of a state, a nation, Senator, and Sec State.

Which is not to say she deserves our automatic support -- she's too corporatist for my taste -- but there is no doubt she's qualified. She might be the MOST qualified candidate in a long time.

[longship]

62. Okay.

But none of the women were anything but spouses or children of a male president. So maybe it undermines the point.

[stevenleser]

71. No, thats the entire point. These people will never be President. It's a joke. nt

[Demo_Chris]

86. Ya think? lol

Apparently "My daddy was President" is a statement of female independence and empowerment. Or so we are now being asked to believe.

The best and only defense of this is to say, "Lighten up, it's just a joke."

[LanternWaste]

100. Neither passed on by blood, not (and here's the tricky part for the pea-brains) denied by blood.

Neither passed on by blood, not (and here's the tricky part for the pea-brains) denied by blood.

[bravenak]

53. Nobody thinks this is funny?!?!

Really?
This would make the right gnash their teeth and wail like banshees.
Talk about your negative Nancys.
This is funny!! And cute!!

[stevenleser]

57. I think it's hilarious. And the reaction by some makes it more so

No one actually expect to nominate all of these people. It's an obvious joke meant to get a rise out of misogynistic right wingers.

The fact that some here felt the need to get upset about it and respond as if it's real says a lot about those who got upset.

[bravenak]

58. Can't have fun around here anymore. So series!

Some people refuse to have a good time. I'm disappointed, not that it matters.

Now that I know it causes such a reaction on the left, I can only imagine how the right might react.
I live in a red state so, I'm getting one. I'll get 50. I'm giggling imagining the pinched hard faces of my tea party neighbors. They used to peel off my African Americans for Obama sticker once a week.
I'm going to sneak some of these on their bumpers over the Palin stickers. I hope they don't notice.

[muriel_volestrangler]

60. But it lists the whole Clinton and Obama families who have not yet been president

and doesn't list a single woman outside those 2 families. It only lists one politician. The obvious link is "member of the 2 families", not "female Democrat". If there had been one politician other than Hillary - Elizabeth Warren, or Wendy Davis, say - it would indeed be 'obvious' that it's about misogyny. But without that, it does look more like a wish for dynasties.

[stevenleser]

63. Because everyone knows who they are, particularly those at whom this humor is aimed

specifically, misogynistic right wingers. They do not know who Barbara Lee is, for instance. They may not even know who Debbie Wasserman Schultz is.

But the object of their hatred? The Obama and Clinton families? Oh they know who THEY are.

[muriel_volestrangler]

66. Aren't you making the point? It's about "The Obama and Clinton families", not women

You could put Nancy Pelosi in, if you want a woman those kind of people hate, but outside the families.

[stevenleser]

67. No, it's not about you or how you see it. It's not aimed at you.

You are not going to get it until you put yourself in the shoes of those at whom it is aimed.

[muriel_volestrangler]

69. I'll repeat the title of the post, since you didn't address it:

Aren't you making the point? It's about "The Obama and Clinton families", not women

I also added that Nancy Pelosi could have been put in, as a woman that would be better known to (and hated by) misogynistic RWers than the Obama daughters, if this was about misogyny. But since you see it as "the Obama and Clinton families", I think you have successfully put how those it's aimed at see it - a hatred of anyone called Obama or Clinton, not of women.

[stevenleser]

72. LOL, you are overanalyzing a joke that you don't get and is not aimed at you.

Address the title. We might as well address Rodney Dangerfield's signature "I tell ya I don't get no respect"

In some cultures, I am guessing that is a faux pas and possibly offensive. It's not aimed at them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

74. Pointing out how you disproved your own point is 'overanalyzing'?

Let us know when you want us to stop thinking, or talking to you, the next time. I suspect it will be right after you've made a point you'd rather wasn't examined at all.

[stevenleser]

76. LMAO, you're still doing it!

[Orsino]

93. In at least two ways.

One of which is DU's royalist tendency, which could use a good ribbing like this.

[Capt. Obvious]

64. Now that's just stupid

The Bush twins deserve to be President before the Obamas.

[Mira]

73. Good thinking and, Hey, there are Tricia and Julie Nixon - still alive and kicking.

Maybe in their late 50s or so. Too late I bet for Jennie Eisenhower.

(just between us, I'm sorry I posted this thing. It deserved a good laugh, and after that a continuation of whatever hopefully worthwhile thing the reader was doing - GEEZ)

[stevenleser]

79. Not your fault. The folks who didn't get this should apply to be on that game show where comedians

try to get you to laugh and when you don't, you get money and other prizes because they are absolutely humor-less, stick in the muds.

One of them is still trying to get me to analyze and re-analyze the bumper sticker!

[SoCalDem]

78. All but the obvious one..highly unlikely

I like my presidents one at a time.. And since we are not a monarchy, we need to stop the speculation that leadership is genetic..

The Bushes showed us that

I'd love to see Hillary being a doting Grandma, while she serves on various boards & gives speeches & writes books.

It's time for a young generation who were reared with high tech, to take over.. The future is theirs..

[stevenleser]

80. For those who responded to this OP with anything other than laughter...

[Dalai_1]

81. K&R n/t

[Zorra]

92. Feudalism. Rule by heredity. No thanks. nt

[Retrograde]

94. Shouldn't there be a Kennedy or three in there?

If we're going to go for dynasties, let's go all the way

[bvar22]

95. Some people have never gotten over that love for Royal Dynasties.

They called them "Royalists" and "Tories" back in 1776.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

97. let's keep this kicked until 2016! bwahahahhaha!

And Chelsea, hurry up and have an heir--I mean a baby.

[Scurrilous]

103. K & R