© Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSome are urging California Gov. Jerry Brown to run a fourth time for president, in part to stop the front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If he weren't the nation's oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Brown would automatically be counted among serious Democratic candidates for president in 2016.
He boasts a household name, an impressive list of accomplishments in the country's most populous state - a state some once deemed ungovernable - glowing national media coverage and a deep familiarity with the pitfalls and rigors of a White House bid, having run three times before.
Now, some are pushing Brown to consider another try for the White House, even if it means taking on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the prohibitive, if still undeclared, Democratic favorite.
"I think Jerry is precisely what America needs," said Rose Ann DeMoro, the leader of a national nurses union and a strong political ally of Brown. "He has the courage of his convictions, which we haven't seen in a very long while."
Comment: 5000 nuclear weapons in the arsenal, and a lot of empty rhetoric being bandied about: making the world safe from terror attacks, 'war on terror', etc. while, simultaneously, this same government strategically, surgically strikes upon civilian populations, funds, arms and facilitates atrocities, illegal military occupiers, mercenaries and extremists, colludes with and supports perpetrators of crimes against humanity in other countries, and insistently seeks to build up its own nuclear defense shield. No hypocrisy there, right?