Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run?

[JDPriestly]

454. Bill Clinton's presidency was a feast for the financial sector.

Wall Street and the dot.coms collected during the Clinton boom. Then, of course, it all went bust. Bush tried to cover it up by promoting a housing boom. But since wages did not rise to cover the increased costs of housing, the whole thing went bust.

I do not want another Clinton boom/bust cycle, and that is what Hillary's banker and investment friends want. That is why they are pushing Hillary.

And we on DU would be fools to fall for that hype again. Too many Americans get hurt in those boom and bust cycles.

Elizabeth Warren has a sense for economics. She is the right candidate for this time whether she has announced or not. I like some other politicians like Bernie Sanders who has his heart in the right place. Biden is a compassionate guy.

But Elizabeth Warren brings a natural understanding of economics plus thorough knowledge of the law of bankruptcy and middle class consumer law. She is our best bet.

Adding on edit: Some years ago I read an article about a study that showed that negative campaigning works. Hillary Clinton is an invitation to negative campaigning. And the independent and potential new Democratic voters were raised on anti-Cllinton propaganda. That negative stuff is deeply seated in the memories of many, many Americans. Hillary should not run. She should strongly support the Democratic candidate that is nominated. She should not subject herself and her family to the kind of negative campaigning that the Republicans so love. And she should not subject Democrats to it either.

If the Republicans could make Benghazi a word nearly every American knows -- Benghazi which is just about almost nothing. Just think what they can do with the mistakes of the Bill Clinton administration. It's best not to invite that kind of campaign. We Democrats have a lot going for us for 2016. The Republicans are in disarray. We shouldn't spoil everything by nominating such a controversial candidate as Hillary Clinton. Besides, her voting record in Congress could bring her a lot of problems, especially her vote and support for the Iraq War. That places her judgment and her willingness to research issues before she makes decisions in question.

Hillary knows D.C. inside and out, but she has a lot of political debts not because she has a particularly bad character but because she has been on the D.C., New York circuit too long. She is out of touch with the problems of the America in which the rest of us live. And no amount of listening tours is going to change that.

The Clintons went to that NY/DC circuit in 1992. They are deeply embedded in that culture. They know everyone there. Everyone there knows them and knows how to crank their engines.

Elizabeth Warren is a far, far better choice.

And the Republicans will not have 20-some years of files on Elizabeth Warren.

If we pick Hillary as our candidate, the entire campaign period will be filled with junk gossip and slander, and voters will be completely turned off by the ugliness long before election day.

Besides which, Hillary does not have the personality that wins hearts during campaigns. If she did, she would have won hands down over Obama.