Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid

An anonymous reader writes In a move that surprised no one, Hillary Clinton has officially announced she is entering the 2016 race for the White House. According to the Times: "Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. 'I'm running for president,' she said with a smile near the end of a two-minute video released just after 3 p.m. 'Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion,' Mrs. Clinton said. 'So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote — because it's your time. And I hope you'll join me on this journey.'"

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Hmmmmm

[SeaFox]

Not sure where to go with this. I truly doubt I'll want the Republican candidate, but I don't particularly want Hilliary for President either. That doesn't leave much other choice. You heard me Libertarians/Greens/RonPaulFans

Re:Hmmmmm

[Grishnakh]

That's never going to happen; our voting system makes it impossible for third parties to get elected, due to the first-past-the-post voting system plus the Electoral College.

What we need to do is hold a new Constitutional Convention of the states, and toss out the Constitution. We need a new Constitution where we basically adopt the government that Germany or France has: a parliamentary republic. Presidential republics are rare, and for good reason: they don't work. There's too much infighting in government between the branches, and nothing gets done. We see this every time there's a federal government shutdown because Congress and the White House are bickering. This never happens in a parliamentary system; at the worst case, parliament gets dissolved, new elections are held, a new PM is selected, and business continues as usual within a few weeks.

And while we're at it, we need to adopt a preferential voting system like the European countries have, so we can have a bunch of different parties, all sharing power in parliament.

Re:Hell No Hillary

[Nyder]

Nope, I'm going to vote for Hillary because unlike most other person running, she isn't overly corrupt and she's not bat shit crazy. She may not be perfect, but I have more faith in her ability to lead this nation then any other candidate currently.

Re:Hell No Hillary

[Sarius64]

I certainly hope you don't take an ambassadorships under her. P.S. Funny how her brothers got that Haiti mining contract.

And this is news for nerd how exactly?

[lister king of smeg]

Is this even news at all? I mean there is no chance she was not going to run. She has been in the running for 2016 since the lost the 2008 primary.

Re:Hell No Hillary

[ganjadude]

fine, Ill ask you then since you want to hide behind ACs

How do you explain her hosting a private email server, and deleting all documents without government oversight???

Re:Hell No Hillary

[Grishnakh]

Don't forget all the people associated with her who "committed suicide".

No front page for Rand Paul?

[damn_registrars]

He declared last week, and wasn't on the front page. Why not? I'm guessing it's because Paul is a favorite object of man-love here on slashdot while Hillary is a favorite punching bag. You don't get many readers in to a celebration, but you get plenty of them for a pseudo lynching.

Re:Hell No Hillary

[anagama]

She will raise revenue for more war and more surveillance.

Look at this clip at 13:29 (better with context starting around 11:00) where HRC is cheerleading for the Iraq War. Her ONLY beef w/ GWB was doing tax cuts at the same time -- she openly says she wouldn't and that would leave more money for national and homeland security -- code for random foreign wars and a burgeoning NSA budget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

So yeah, you are totally right. When she gets us into a useless random war for no fucking reason at all, she'll raise taxes. Talk about a reason to vote for her! Yummy! /sarc

Re:Almost Time

[McGruber]

If it ends up being Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush,

Who would move the US more to the right: Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush?

My current thinking is that Hillary would.

Re:So...

[ranton]

How about all them deleted emails?

Yawn.

I am pretty liberal and I can hardly imagine voting Republican again for a while, but even I cannot understand why the email thing isn't a bigger deal. I guess that is because I am not a lawyer. From what I can tell, deleting potential evidence that you even think might be subpoenaed later is a crime. A pretty serious one. And the Republicans have been threatening to subpoena for those records since the scandal started.

This doesn't seem like some little transgression to me. I think the Benghazi nonsense is just that, nonsense. But the email deletions literally seem like a jail-able offense to me. And honestly I think they should be. As far as I can tell the only reason she isn't in more trouble is because Eric Holder is a very political attorney general.

I would love for someone to convince me this isn't a big deal, and considering the media doesn't cover this more I am probably just wrong about how bad it is. I thought the email scandal was ridiculous when it was just about using her private server, but the second she admitted to deleting the emails things just became far less trivial.

Re:Nerds care about politics too

[kharchenko]

If Warren won't run, I'll vote for Bernie Sanders, the only Independant in Congress.

I sympathize with your view, but I hope you're not fooling yourself that someone who actually wants to stand up for the little guy has any chance of being nominated. Warren is demonized as a left-wing nut, and the most extreme thing she tried to do was to lower the student loan rate to match that the Fed is giving to the banks. Someone should import a few real left-wing nuts, put them up in some reality TV show, just so people get some sense as to what that really means.

Re:Hell No Hillary

[ganjadude]

the difference being that they were not running their own servers, having access to wipe it without government oversight.

if you can show me any of them (or anyone else) who was running their own mail server, and keeping it away from government oversight, im keen to listen and change my opinion, but based on those links, there is a HUGE difference between them and hillary