“NONE OF THE ABOVE. HAVE YOU GOT any suggestions for a dark horse candidate, a write-in?”
“I THINK THE BEST CANDIDATE WOULD be Hillary Clinton. The main reason is she has Bill Clinton as her husband and advisor. He was the best president we’ve had in my lifetime. George W. Bush has been the worst president we’ve had in that time. The ideal ticket would be Hillary and Barack Obama.”
“I THINK HILLARY CLINTON SHOULD be the next person to be our Commander in Chief. I think it is time we need a change all around and hopefully a woman will be able to do that for us.”
“AS A DEMOCRAT, I DON’T LIKE ANY of the Democratic candidates for president. I’d switch to Republican, but they are no better. The only thing I can say is I would cast Mitt Romney as the president, but only in a movie or TV series. Might as well just vote in Al Gore.”
“SPEAKING AS A DEMOCRAT AND military veteran, I am again willing to trust the White House to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Jefferson Clinton. Bill Clinton, as president, did a good job considering the awesome, multi-faceted responsibilities of that high office.”
“I THINK JOHN EDWARDS WOULD make the best Commander in Chief. He comes from good stock, he knows what it is like to be poor and be surrounded by people barely getting by. He comes from a hard working background. He speaks well, he looks good and he has experience. Let Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama scratch it out like a bunch of cats or women with nails and let John Edwards rise like a phoenix from the ashes of their girl fight.”
“I BELI EVE TH E BEST CAN DI DATE is John Edwards because he isn’t back stabbing and trying to belittle the other candidates. He’s just being honest and being down to earth. He outclassed them all on the Democratic side.”
“I LIKE RON PAUL’S IDEAS BASED ON the founding fathers’ belief in the supremacy of the individual. That the pioneer can-do spirit coupled with little government interference makes for a vibrantly free country. If Mr. Paul came to Santa Monica with its nanny state of bloodsucking ideas, like affirmative action, low income non-Santa Monica resident housing, useless rent control, massive development breaks for big business, bum subsidies, school monopolies, SMC spider-like growth, he would probably have a massive seizure trying to comprehend the greed and stupidity and lack of real caring leadership in this town.”
“I KNOW THAT DENNIS KUCINICH WOULD be the best president, but he has as good a chance as Jesus trying to run for the emperor of Rome and for about the same reasons. Jesus was for the poor and down trodden against the fundamentalists and money changers. I may vote for John Edwards. If Hillary Clinton gets the nomination, I’ll probably vote for Ralph Nader again, for the third time.”
“ANY ON E BUT HOSTI LE, POWER hungry, incompetent, dishonest, nasty Hillary Clinton.”
“HILLARY CLINTON WOULD MAKE THE best Commander in Chief. She has the brains and guts to best do the job.”
“THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE HILLARY Clinton. We need a lady there because these men keep messing up. She would do a lot better than a lot of these fel-las.”
“HILLARY CLINTON SHOULD BE ELECTED president. Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 26, 2008. Read the original PDF.