Plouffe Calls Clinton ‘Probably The Strongest’ 2016 Candidate...

[amandabeech]

32. Some of us to the left wish that Obama's policies were

more to the left.

I would never consider voting for anyone now sporting the Republican brand, but that does not mean that I am in total support of Obama's policies, either.

I have been very critical of Obama's economic policies, particularly those toward the large financial institutions and with putting the Social Security cost-of-living index on the table before much of anything else. Indeed, I am not convinced by historical and current evidence that the federal deficit is the big problem at this time, as it seems that Obama is. He is not a student of history; I was and continue to be interested in history at his level (public and private ivy) so I do not automatically cede him and his advisers this intellectual ground. There are others here like me.

I hope that someone to the left of the President will challenge Sec. Clinton, but if Sec. Clinton obtains the nomination, there is no way that I would vote for a Republican challenger, anywhere. If I were in a solid blue state, I might consider a protest vote, either 3rd party or write-in, but I would never consider a vote that would put anyone acceptable to the Republican party in office.

Unfortunately, due to my commitment to my elderly mother which comes before anything (and she will vote Democratic absentee if she is cognizant), I do not expect to have time and energy to devote to the 2016 election myself. Other economic populists will have to fill in for me in the meantime, and I encourage them to do so. I'll be able to participate again once my mom has gone to her well-earned reward. There really is a time and place for everything.