Look ahead a decade with me.

[soybean]

Just thinking back about politics during my adult lifetime. I'm not very smart. But I think even the smartest amongst us would have been hard pressed to predict many of the eventual POTUS a decade in advance.

I'm going to ignore several here, but I'll start with Jimmy Carter. Who in 1966 would have expected Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer from Georgia, to become president? What about Bill Clinton? Who could have seen in 1982 that Slick Willie from Arkansas would end up as Commander in Chief? George W. Bush. Jeb Bush maybe, but the idea in 1990 that George W. could be POTUS would have never even occured to his wife or mother. Barrack Hussien Obama - Its 1998 and you are telling me that a black man with a funny name that nobody knew would become the most powerful man in the world? No, I don't believe you.

Now comes Donald Trump. As improbable as it would have sounded in 2006 this historical curiousity manged to get elected to a job which proves the Peter Principle legitimate. But even he will not be in office come 2028. But who will be? Who will vault into the White House seemingly out of the clear blue sky?

Who will be the POTUS in 2028?

 

[dp3209]

With the current mentality of our country, Steve King wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Moral]

Tulsi Gabbard. Book it.

 

[lucas80]

One of the Kardashians.

 

[artradley]

Just thinking back about politics during my adult lifetime. I'm not very smart. But I think even the smartest amongst us would have been hard pressed to predict many of the eventual POTUS a decade in advance.

I'm going to ignore several here, but I'll start with Jimmy Carter. Who in 1966 would have expected Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer from Georgia, to become president? What about Bill Clinton? Who could have seen in 1982 that Slick Willie from Arkansas would end up as Commander in Chief? George W. Bush. Jeb Bush maybe, but the idea in 1990 that George W. could be POTUS would have never even occured to his wife or mother. Barrack Hussien Obama - Its 1998 and you are telling me that a black man with a funny name that nobody knew would become the most powerful man in the world? No, I don't believe you.

Now comes Donald Trump. As improbable as it would have sounded in 2006 this historical curiousity manged to get elected to a job which proves the Peter Principle legitimate. But even he will not be in office come 2028. But who will be? Who will vault into the White House seemingly out of the clear blue sky?

Who will be the POTUS in 2028?

 

[Run&Blade]

Oprah.

Jim Cramer.

Bill Belichick

Mark Cuban

Daunte Culpepper

 

[Tom Paris]

Oprah or The Rock

 

[Lone Clone]

Just thinking back about politics during my adult lifetime. I'm not very smart. But I think even the smartest amongst us would have been hard pressed to predict many of the eventual POTUS a decade in advance.

I'm going to ignore several here, but I'll start with Jimmy Carter. Who in 1966 would have expected Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer from Georgia, to become president? What about Bill Clinton? Who could have seen in 1982 that Slick Willie from Arkansas would end up as Commander in Chief? George W. Bush. Jeb Bush maybe, but the idea in 1990 that George W. could be POTUS would have never even occured to his wife or mother. Barrack Hussien Obama - Its 1998 and you are telling me that a black man with a funny name that nobody knew would become the most powerful man in the world? No, I don't believe you.

Now comes Donald Trump. As improbable as it would have sounded in 2006 this historical curiousity manged to get elected to a job which proves the Peter Principle legitimate. But even he will not be in office come 2028. But who will be? Who will vault into the White House seemingly out of the clear blue sky?

Who will be the POTUS in 2028?

Carter was improbable in 1976, let alone in '66. Atlanta paper ran a cartoon when he announced that showed him headed for the white house and a snowball head for hell, and the caption "We're betting on the snowball."

I think Obama and Trump are the least likely because neither of them was remotely qualified by the standards that people thought mattered.

Ten years from now, I wouldn't even dare to bet. People were serious about Oprah until she said she wouldn't run. Does Putin have a son?

 

[Funky Bunch]

Brian Nole

 

[pocha444444]

Probably some Youtube personality

 

[Moral]

Does Putin have a son?

Don Trump Jr.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Probably no one who has been a U.S. senator as they wouldn't be remotely qualified.

 

[WisestIowan]

Jay Cutler

 

[artradley]

Carter was improbable in 1976, let alone in '66. Atlanta paper ran a cartoon when he announced that showed him headed for the white house and a snowball head for hell, and the caption "We're betting on the snowball."

I think Obama and Trump are the least likely because neither of them was remotely qualified by the standards that people thought mattered.

Ten years from now, I wouldn't even dare to bet. People were serious about Oprah until she said she wouldn't run. Does Putin have a son?

Trivia: The Burlington HawkEye was the first paper in the country to endorse Carter. A friend and I were in their newsroom on election eve for a party the editor was throwing, and I was standing next to the ticker machine (which was still a thing then) when the headline ticked off declaring Carter the winner. I tore it off and held it up for everybody to see, to great cheers.

I thought I had a great souvenir, until the editor -- I believe his name was John McCormick -- came over and explained that since he paid a great deal of money for the ticker service, that belonged to him. Even 18-year-old me accepted that logic.

Edit: editor's name was John McCormally.

 

[Lone Clone]

Trivia: The Burlington HawkEye was the first paper in the country to endorse Carter. A friend and I were in their newsroom on election eve for a party the editor was throwing, and I was standing next to the ticker machine (which was still a thing then) when the headline ticked off declaring Carter the winner. I tore it off and held it up for everybody to see, to great cheers.

I thought I had a great souvenir, until the editor -- I believe his name was John McCormick -- came over and explained that since he paid a great deal of money for the ticker service, that belonged to him. Even 18-year-old me accepted that logic.

Edit: editor's name was John McCormally.

McCormally was famous in Iowa journalism circles. IIRC, he wrote a really, really good piece when the U.S. gave Okinawa back to the Japanese, a sort of open letter to a buddy of his who had been killed there.

He won a Pulitzer (or his staff did) when he was at the paper in Hutchinson, KS before going to Burlington. My first boss worked at the Hutchinson paper at the time.

 

[Chuck C]

One of these two.

 

[General Tso]

Some AI hologram of FDR

 

[10kHawk]

Vladimir Putin Jr.

 

[ihhawk]

Hard to predict of course but I think that the political landscape in 10 years will look completely different than today.

The democrat candidate will be socialist. Sanders had a lot of support with young voters and that will continue to grow. I think weed will be legal everywhere. Social security will be the main topic.

 

[dekhawk]

Carter got in because the majority were tired of the Nixon and R’s watergate antics. It will be interesting to see the countries mood after trump

 

[longliveCS40]

In a surprise move, they'll change the natural born citizen requirement and Elon Musk will be president.

 

[nolesincebirth]

In 10 yeas, the national debt will likely be around $30 Trillion. We’ll either go full socialism at that point or we’ll go true fiscal conservative.

So, I’ll say:

Kamala Harris v. Rand Paul.

And Kamala Harris will win.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

It wouldn't surprise me to see the Democrats nominate Linda Sarsour.

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

In 10 yeas, the national debt will likely be around $30 Trillion. We’ll either go full socialism at that point or we’ll go true fiscal conservative.

So, I’ll say:

Kamala Harris v. Rand Paul.

And Kamala Harris will win.

I think she will be the Dem nominee in 2020. She is also so far to the left that she will lose to Trump in 2020? Why? She will lose the rust belt, and the melt down will be epic.

 

[joelbc1]

In a surprise move, they'll change the natural born citizen requirement and Elon Musk will be president.

and can we blame Obama for that, too?

 

[IowaHawkeyeFBnBB4Life]

In a surprise move, they'll change the natural born citizen requirement and Elon Musk will be president.

Constitutional amendment of this nature will never happen. No way you get 33 states on board.

 

[naturalmwa]

With the current mentality of our country, Steve King wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.

Probably the fiction writer over the Iowa guy however.

 

[The Tradition]

10 years from now, Amazon will have taken over the world and Jeff Bezos will be installed as Supreme Leader.

 

[Lone Clone]

Vladimir Putin Jr.

I already said that.