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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]Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)184. Rep. Barbara Lee is my first choice
As long as we're dreaming, I'll put forth the name of the woman I'd love to see become our first female president.
The ONLY representative strong enough and wise enough to vote NO to endless war in the aftermath of 9/11. The ONLY ONE to vote NO on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force enacted a few days after 9/11, the same law still authorizing the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and on and on and on.
Barbara Lee for President! Demand the BEST for our beloved country!
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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