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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren To Obama: Stop Nominating So Many Corporatists [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)That used to happen, you know, back when the Democratic Party was responsive to voters. That's back when Democrats got elected over and over and over because the whole country knew that Democrats would nominate the best candidates who would stand up for all the people and not just for corporations and fools.
Hillary is viewed as a done deal within the party hierarchy. These are the people who attend meetings and know how much money it takes to run a presidential campaign. Those are the people we need to reach on behalf of the nomination of Elizabeth Warren whether she wants it or not.
Hillary will be a liability to our Democratic Party. She just oozes potential scandals. What in the world are bankers paying her $400,000 in one week for? To flatter and cozy up to them?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/14/1255675/-Goldman-Sachs-Pays-Hillary-400-000-in-One-Week
Remember how Romney's "private" speech to a dinner party for high-rolling donors was recorded and insulted so many Americans? That was the last nail in the coffin of his presidential run.
Hillary Clinton needs to stop and think about how it will affect her election chances if some of her chit-chat with bankers gets recorded and played back in edited form for voters, especially very liberal and working voters, maybe including voters whose homes, not so long ago, were foreclosed by the very bankers with whom she is hobnobbing for dollars.
Hillary may have lots of money but arriveat the gate in November 2016 with too much baggage to get elected.
On the other hand, Elizabeth Warren's message is clear. She supports the American people, those of us who are ignored and forgotten on Wall Street. She wants more balance in the judiciary. I am with her on just about everything I have heard her say. She's just got common sense. I'm sure she is not perfect, but she hasn't been in D.C. and milling about in diplomatic circles so long that she can no longer speak the straight-forward, plain English that we understand on Main Street. Elizabeth Warren spots the issues that we all see so plainly in our humble lives. She speaks with a clarion voice to those issues and to us.
I repeat: Elizabeth Warren for president in 2016.