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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren, Not Hillary Clinton, Should Be the Next President of the United States [View all]NYC Liberal
(20,324 posts)70. If it's Hillary vs Elizabeth Warren in the primaries, I will vote for Hillary.
Both would make fantastic presidents and I will happily vote for either in the general.
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Elizabeth Warren, Not Hillary Clinton, Should Be the Next President of the United States [View all]
monmouth3
Jun 2014
OP
Hillary voted for Iraq and continued to vote to fund while in the Senate. That is why I did not
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#121
And years later, continued denying that she had anything to apologize for.
closeupready
Jun 2014
#150
Yes. I frankly have no idea how anyone who supported this horrific crime can sleep at night.
sabrina 1
Jun 2014
#237
Precisely. Send Bush and "His Brain" Rove over there - they broke it, let them fix it.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2014
#251
Hillary's waiting to see which way the wind is blowing before expousing the Third Way position.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2014
#168
Her opponent handed it to her in the end, but no, I didn't mean it that way at all
tavalon
Jun 2014
#257
To be honest, after Hillary's shaky rollout this week, she's the one who needs seasoning. Elizabeth's the one who could teach her a thing or two.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2014
#205
She WOULD pledge? So, apparently, she hasn't pledged YET. Some wiggle room there.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2014
#169
I have it but haven't begun reading it. Perhaps you can quote the relevant pages.
wyldwolf
Jun 2014
#231
Now there's an understatement. I think Elizabeth would be responsive to a draft movement demanding that she run.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jun 2014
#170
Quite possibly but it doesn't matter on a fundamental level. Build the movement and someone will
TheKentuckian
Jun 2014
#241
Warren tends to be a woman of her word and she doesn't tend to use weasily words
tavalon
Jun 2014
#181
Why is it so very important to continue to say over and over and over that Sen Warren isnt running?
rhett o rick
Jun 2014
#185
If that's the best you've got, Clinton can start measuring the White House for drapes
Fred Friendlier
Jun 2014
#112
"I am not running for president. I am not running for president in four years...
corkhead
Jun 2014
#73
No need to get defensive. I am agreeing with you and further adding by example
corkhead
Jun 2014
#79
I will certainly vote for CLINTON if she is the nominee, but the big lesson of Bill CLINTON was:
UTUSN
Jun 2014
#4
Clinton was a target for behavior that other Presidents had always gotten away with.
pnwmom
Jun 2014
#20
Other presidents did not publicly humiliate their wives on an international scale.
Divernan
Jun 2014
#99
The media covered up for other Presidents so that the wives weren't humiliated.
pnwmom
Jun 2014
#100
don't kid yourself. Whitewater was a republlican invention blown into a sex scandal
bigtree
Jun 2014
#24
I'm sorry, the only difference I see is that there's little appetite for that anymore
bigtree
Jun 2014
#130
I'm seeing 2conflicting points: 1) no appetite, no bipartisan support. & 2)They don't need a reason
UTUSN
Jun 2014
#176
I would say the person whom earns the most votes deserves to be the next President. nt.
NCTraveler
Jun 2014
#10
Let me clarify that if HRC gets the nom then she gets my vote. Cruz or whomever they put up is a no
monmouth3
Jun 2014
#12
the more a party is destroyed and emptied of actual policy, the MORE they "wave the bloody
MisterP
Jun 2014
#148
We are not stupid. We know Biden's record already. Of course he is not perfect as no politician is.
totodeinhere
Jun 2014
#103
As did Clinton of course. But in a way that charge in unfair since we don't know
totodeinhere
Jun 2014
#105
I think she has spoken out on the critical fundamental issues that many Dems avoid...
cascadiance
Jun 2014
#107
Economics is the linchpin and fundamentals of politics and by function cannot be a small
TheKentuckian
Jun 2014
#239
She understood the financial crisis better than just about all pols before Obama was elected...
cascadiance
Jun 2014
#262
I don't think that her biggest hurdle is her gender. After all Clinton is also a women and that
totodeinhere
Jun 2014
#108
But that poll is not a presidential poll. Get back to us when there is a poll
totodeinhere
Jun 2014
#110
Well Warren hasn't declared either but that doesn't stop people from pushing her. n/t
totodeinhere
Jun 2014
#156
If it's Hillary vs Elizabeth Warren in the primaries, I will vote for Hillary.
NYC Liberal
Jun 2014
#70
Your first sentence says it all, even without the name Huckabee in it (i doubt he runs)
7962
Jun 2014
#207
When your best options are Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Chris Christie
StevieM
Jun 2014
#208
What position is Hillary currently holding to be in a pisition of announcing where she is on any
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#93
Maybe is she afraid by the Clinton team and all the dirty tricks they are able
mylye2222
Jun 2014
#111
So Elizabeth Warren ISN'T a fearless new fighting force for progressive ideals?
brooklynite
Jun 2014
#126
Our only hope is that this means that HC has privately confided in EW that she's going rogue. nt
Zorra
Jun 2014
#238
If we keep voting for Wall Street puppets, Democrats will continue to nominate Wall Street puppets.
fbc
Jun 2014
#115
Since Warren will not be running by her own accord and IF Hillary becomes the nominee...
liberal N proud
Jun 2014
#127
The nice thing about being a Democrat is that all of our potential nominees are better than ANYTHING
pampango
Jun 2014
#145
It sounds like Romney wants to run again. You may get (another?) chance to vote for him.
pampango
Jun 2014
#154
Yes, and in their dream world the person who has almost null experience in politics
Beacool
Jun 2014
#174
I see no path to a nationwide victory in a general election for Elizabeth Warren.
MohRokTah
Jun 2014
#186
Let's be practical. We need a tough President and Elizabeth Warren is too new and untested.
TiredOfNo
Jun 2014
#187
Warren needs to be on the economic team of the White House where she'll be better able to do stuff
SleeplessinSoCal
Jun 2014
#191
I agree. I do not trust Clinton to be anything but a puppet of the 1% & corporations
emsimon33
Jun 2014
#200
I'm skeptical, she was a Republican during the Reagan era, and many of her boosters seem to also
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2014
#202
John Kerry in his first year in the senate introduced a bill banning discrimination
JI7
Jun 2014
#249
I've thought about all that too, and it's the main reason I support a Sanders/Warren ticket
Raksha
Jun 2014
#221
Absolutely. But I will vote vote for Hillary if she gets the nod. There's not one GOP candidate I...
marble falls
Jun 2014
#220
I agree, Hillary voted with W more often than some Republicans. That said, Romney vs Hillary? ....
marble falls
Jun 2014
#233
IMO unless we can arrange a major shakeup in who controls congress it wont matter who
cstanleytech
Jun 2014
#230
Dennis Kucinich, and neither of them, should be the next president of the United States.
flvegan
Jun 2014
#246