Elizabeth Warren To Obama: Stop Nominating So Many Corporatists

[JDPriestly]

42. Obama is cool. That is one of his best qualities.

It was wonderful to have a cool, confident president after Bush who nearly destroyed the country with his overly emotional and unthinking reactions to everything that happened in the world.

Both Obama and Warren are sane (Hillary is sane, but rather vindictive I suspect). They are both really exceptionally good people. But Warren has a little more passion for doing what is right than does Obama. Obama has some, but he tones it down. I suspect that he may pride himself on being more reasonable, more rational, more willing to compromise than others. That was great when he first took office. But now the country needs more passion in its leadership. This is the time when we will decide whether we adventure forth toward progress or whether we fall back into a fearful, regressive, ultra-conservative past of spite and repression.

Hillary Clinton did not, in 2008, demonstrate the passion to do what is right that we needed. That is why we nominated Obama even though he really did not have that passion either. On the other hand, Warren is what the country needs in 2016 -- leadership that will take us into a future in which we have to decide major questions such as how we will allocate wealth in an economy in which much of the "manual labor" is done by machines.

We see the military replacing combat soldiers with drones. How will the civilian sector replace manual labor when computer-directed gadgets can do the work? How will we decide who does and does not eat if jobs, the work that decides who gets what now, is limited to rare positions repairing, running, selling and using those gadgets. What happens when we need only ten people to do the work that 30 of our grandparents did? Who will get what? How will we decide who deserves to thrive and who does not? Or will we?

These are very difficult questions, and I would like to have Elizabeth Warren lead our nation in beginning to answer them. Elizabeth Warren speaks for me. Elizabeth Warren for 2016.