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In reply to the discussion: Do you think we'll see a female president? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Al Gore's father was in politics. Ted Kennedy's brother, too. Nancy Pelosi's dad. And that is just the very tip of the iceberg.
Your argument is just not supported. Children often go into the "family business" as my link above conclusively demonstrates, and it's up to them to make their case to the voters and the voters to choose to put them in office.
In any event, the only reason Hillary is a Clinton and not a Rodham (which she was for most of her life) is because wingnut assholes bullied her, and she added it on to help her husband.
What "we" need is what the voters decide we need. It's not up to me alone, nor is it up to you. I am not even going to dignify that whole "conspiracy theory" stuff. Candidates come out of left field all the time--some make it, some don't. If HRC was such a monster, Bernie Sanders wouldn't have taken PAC money from her. My read of the situation, barring ill health, is that the odds favor Hillary Clinton.
Elizabeth Warren is not running. She said so. Twenty times, easily. Emphatically. She has raised no money, visited no states, made no state or regional campaign organizational connections, and by now, anyone thinking about running has commenced doing those things. She has pledged--not just suggested, inferred, coyly indicated, but PLEDGED-- to complete her term. I think she is a woman of her word. Her loyalty isn't to her "fans" who really know nothing about her (like her strong support of the military, something that shocked the shit out of some here, who had a phony image of her on the barricades, linking arms with Cindy Sheehan, protesting at the Pentagon in their dreams) but to the people of the Bay State. She, better than most in Congress, knows what it means to SERVE the people of her state.
She comes home pretty much every weekend--she doesn't hang around DC going on MEET THE PRESS or THIS WEEK--she goes on local shows in Boston, if at all. Her loyalty is to us, her constituents in the Bay State, not people who want her to play their personal Don Quixote because they like her anti-bank attitude and somehow think that means "Oh, she thinks like me in every possible way." Her constituent services are the best I've ever seen in a Massachusetts senator's--better than Ted's; her attention to local issues is first rate. She doesn't behave like someone who is using her office as a stepping stone. She's promised to stick, and I take her at her word.
If I were a bettor, I'd say she's angling for the Fed Chair job down the line, when Hillary Clinton becomes President, and appoints her.