Hillary 2016: the good, bad and ugly

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39. And those that espouse liberal views should really have their backgrounds checked too...

... so we can avoid a John Edwards situation again, which I think perhaps he was allowed to stay in the primary race until the big primary days and then he just "pulled out" because of his secrets that invalidated him as a candidate. I still wonder to this day if he was "designated" to be the third "progressive" option to take votes away from those like Dennis Kucinich so that they wouldn't be a factor and he could be "turned off" at the point they wanted to whittle down the race to just two options that coincidentally were a black man and a woman that both had more "centrist" (aka corporate friendly) viewpoints.

We shouldn't be voting for someone just because they are a woman or a minority, but someone like Elizabeth Edwards, who in my book IS the kind of candidate we need, should not be dismissed either just because she's a woman too. We need to focus on their support for progressive values and sorely needed reforms that have been avoided for 30 years, and also verify that they aren't a "standin" candidate that can be "turned off" at any time the way that John Edwards was in 2008.