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In reply to the discussion: What if we don't want Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)And Hillary gets tired.
Once you get over 50, age is a very individual thing.
A president has to have enormous energy and can't get cross or tired.
Further, Hillary has a lot of skeletons in her closet in addition to her vote on the Iraq War that could make her unelectable.
She was the only female on the Walmart board at a time when Walmart was assiduously discriminating against women.
She has ties to bankers and some shady characters in big business that could get her into trouble. Remember, powerful people like bankers do not support you or your campaign without first claiming their territory, spraying you with their scent so that they can hunt you down later.
That's Obama's problem right there. He is the claimed territory of the bankers and some very self-important types.
The criminal-business types don't go near Elizabeth Warren or Alan Grayson. That's because the philosophies, the ideas of Warren and Grayson stink to the greedy and repel their approaches.
So I'd go Warren (in spite of her age) and Grayson (young to make up for Warren's age).