She is not expected to get the nomination but she has the partyline down. She doesn't think the tax cuts for the richest 1 percent of Americans is going to spur investment in the private sector.

She had this to say about the war in Iraq:

" The war with Iraq was one of choice, not necessity. This President (who did not win the popular vote) was given an arguably unconstitutional grant of authority by the Congress (Article I requires the Congress to declare war) to pulverize a country the size of Arizona in pursuit of a horrible dictator that our finances had installed and left in place after the '91 war. The rationale for going in shifted from getting the terrorists (in spite of the fact that bin Laden is still not caught and no Iraqi's were in those planes on 9/11) to looking for weapons of mass destruction (which still have not been found) to protecting human rights (by leaving scores of innocent people dead, antiquities looted, and American soldiers put in harms way) to installing democracy (in spite of the fact that it now is more likely that a Taliban type radical faction will take charge). The damage done to our international relations and international institutions is profound and will be long lasting, and the cynicism of paying "coalition members" off with money and contracts is appalling. We have sacrificed our own civil liberties, and your personal emails are subject to be monitored for no court-approved reason. The cost in dollars is borne almost exclusively by the American people"

I dont know what kind of a chance she has but I like her style. I thought I'd submit a couple of exerpts here in case someone was interested. Heres another quote I like:

"Democrats have to show the American people that we have a plan to Rebuild America and revive the American dream. One of my former colleagues, Dale Bumpers, used to say that Democrats give the people peace and prosperity, the Republicans get in and give them depression and war."

She reminds me of Clinton, I wonder if the former First Lady would consider being her running mate.
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I like the idea of a woman President, and it'd suit me fine if it happened to be an African-American woman too, but not that woman. She's from the extreme Left of the Democratic Party and if nominated would have zero chance in the general election, for which I thank the Lord.

And you want to team her up with Hillary Clinton, the absolute last person in the country I'd want to see in the White House? You're getting close to my ultimate nightmare ticket.

But if we could dump Bush in favor of Condi Rice and put Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA) on as Veep, now that'd be a pair of women I could vote for.

dream land, not today, not for a few hundread years. i think she would be assasinated personally. i love what she had to say though. maybe in the far future when we dont have money or something

but no i dont think that should would win, i would like to see her run just to see how much of the vote she would get, voteing being scary anymore.

I like the way Carol Mosley Braun thinks. She's the only person who mentioned "infrastructure" in the South Carolina debate. She is articulate and pragmatic. I would vote for her.

It would be good to have again as President a person who cares about domestic policy and the plight of the underemployed and unemployed. I don't know where she stands on Free Trade vs. Protective Tariffs, but it would be worth finding out.

I would personally prefer her to Hillary Clinton.

But there are a lot of people who would be put off by the fact that she is female (Elizabeth Dole had that problem--I probably would've voted for her) and African American (although African Americans are beginning to make inroads in the government).

The sooner we get over the idea that the President has to be a white man, the better off we'll be.

Carol Mosely-Braun was a single-term senator who couldn't even get relected in her home state. Now she wants to be president?

Please.

Mosely-Braun's purpose is either to raise her profile for another Illinois Senate run or to defuse the possibility of Al Sharpton playing to the African-American wing of the Democratic Party (which he won't because I've yet to run into anyone that takes him as a serious and credible candidate).

If Mosely-Braun is lucky she might get a Cabinet position in the next Democratic president's administration, but that's as good as it gets.

I like the idea of an African-American woman in the White House, just not a Leftish African-American woman. Or a Leftish anybody for that matter.

If we're debating Mosely-Braun specifically, she hasn't got a chance - but not because she's a woman (or African-American, for that matter). It's because her political positions are, unfortunately, way too unacceptable to those who allow people to become president in this country.

The topic title, though, might make an interesting debate of itself. Is the US ready for any woman in the White House? Despite the title here, though, that discussion probably warrants a new thread...