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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren supports Hillary for President [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)This letter was designed to try and push the media and everyone else in to thinking that "Hillary is inevitable" instead of allowing our system the ability to have other people enter the fray and provide the constituency of our party to hear them all and then choose who they want representing them.
When the wheels of this party try to put pressure on all of its members to get behind one person and not provide others with a choice, it is harder for those who might have a constituency to stand up and say "Wait, I think we need to hear how others might look to me (or someone else in the party) as a candidate." This letter served no purpose other than to let the PTB push others out of the mix. And that in my book works against the system of Democracy.
And if you think that any one of us has the ability by ourselves to make this happen, when many like me are fighting other battles in this economy just to keep a job and a house over our head, let alone try to be a part of the political process. The choice of WHO is saying that Hillary and no one else should run? I would argue that you DO NOT KNOW what Elizabeth Warren wants to do, and what she feels the pressure to do and not to do by the PTB...
Those who want to the right choice to lead our party and our country in 2016 should step back and say IT'S TOO EARLY TO DECIDE WHO IS OUR NOMINEE, and let the process work so that we give many the chance to build that support between now and then. If we had done what some are suggesting now back in 2008, we might not have had Obama in charge. Now some of us would argue that we still didn't make the right choice, but the system even then I would argue probably knew that John Edwards was tainted when the process started, and sought to push those who wanted a better choice than Obama or Hillary to go to him and get it taken away later.
At this point, Hillary in charge is also a dream and a fantasy as much as anyone is. Let's not try and dismiss or demean anyone that wants to work for a candidate, whether it be Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, or someone else. Let the system play out the way our founders wanted it to. That Barbara Boxer pushed for this action disappoints me. I've always liked her as my former senator in the past, but starting with her being one of the holdouts in fixing the filibuster rules, I'm beginning to wonder who she really represents more so than I'd felt before.