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Harvard prof thinks about running for president

Boston Magazine alerts us to Larry Lessig's ponderings.

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I wonder if he decided to take the plunge after Sander's woes in Seattle. I'm all for having as many voices in the election as possible, and Lessig is no idiot. But he's another no-go candidate. I hope that as the general election approaches, the liberal field pulls together behind whomever the most electable candidate is and actually endorses him or her. Lessig will poll well with the former Occupy demographic, and he may be able to deliver a lot of clout for his positions, and votes.

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I wonder if he decided to take the plunge after Sander's woes in Seattle.

I'm thrilled to see Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) giving Hillary Rodham Clinton fits, but I'm curious why the "Black Lives Matter" crowd sabotaged Bernie's event in lilly-white Seattle? Did the Clinton Foundation send them?

In Ferguson, MO, they are honoring a morbidly obese career criminal, shown on video committing a strong-armed robbery of an immigrant grocer, moments before he was approached by a white patrolman with a great record. By all witness and scientific accounts, the criminal assaulted the officer and attempted to take his gun. The officer was cleared by a local Grand Jury and an African American US Attorney General. Yet we honor the criminal and loot the city once again?

If "Lessig polls well with the Occupy demographic," send him right into the Presidential race. I'll send the first $100 check. There's an outside chance he could call attention to how far our country has gone. Lessig better hurry, CNN is reporting rapper "Lil B" has switched his support from Clinton to Sanders.

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Hillary meets with the national BLM leadership and one month later BLM is interrupting rallies attended by her opponents but not hers. Nah no coordination there. O'Malley and Sanders are getting dirty tricks played against them.

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Pissweak effort, Fishy. Go to the darknet where you belong.

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Anybody can get it, no candidate should feel comfortable that they have the Black vote, I hope this is a permanent change in politics. I don't think shutting down Bernie means we can't support him but like everyone else he needs to show he's willing to listen to our needs as a community.

I think we let Pres Obama off easy, and if he barely pushed the needle forward for equality for Black people, I hope this awakens my people to take more action.

Also, was it successful? Didn't they simultaneously put name recognition around Bernie Sanders (especially in Black communities) while also making people go "Why?" It created questions and conversation, while getting tremendous press, all factors I would claim the action was wildly successful.

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Lessig's stupid crusade against copyright law mainly succeeded in shifting wealth to Google. Whole creative categories that talented people once aspired to and were paid for shriveled.

He kind of drifts back and forth between laudable things and crap, a consummate modern crackpot for Harvard's august roster of them. He'll join O'Malley in the small Democratic version of the crowded GOP clown car.

He adds nothing of value to anything and the Democratic cyber libertarian wing is small. For everyone else, he is eyeglaze in a human form.

The most viable Harvard candidate has already indicated she doesn't want the job.

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Ted Cruz is in the race and he's not a she so I'm not sure what you are talking about.

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Never fear... Ted Cruz is in the race. He's the clown car occupant with the fake nose that emits a sad trombone gliss when you squeeze it.

He will Cruz to an easy victory as he is just so beloved by everyone and is the epitome of everything vile about Harvard.

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You children have fun with the conspiratin'--n--commie chat. I'm done here. There are real world things the grown-ups need to think about.

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sometimes hurts.

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What is the old saying, I would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty at Harvard.

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