Caroline Kennedy Says She Will Back Hillary Clinton, Warren camp says NY Post article...

[JDPriestly]

89. Actually, I'm having trouble writing an answer short enough to fit on DU. Taking a little

break.

There are so many reasons. First, have you read Elizabeth Warren's book? Because she answers a lot of questions in it herself.

Here are a few points:

I happen to think that America's economic issues are our gravest threat.

Americans owe too much personal debt. Our economy is shifting to a service economy -- meaning a low wage economy. We import too much. We export too many weapons. The increasing income disparity is slowing our economic growth and our ability to respond to challenges like global warming, a failing infrastructure and the social change that immigration is bringing.

Meanwhile, Hillary hob-nobs with bankers. She doesn't know what is going on on Main Street, America. She does not understand the harm the banks and megacorporations are inflicting on most Americans, and she will never be able to regulate them as they need to be regulated. They are her closest friends.

Bill Clinton signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. Elizabeth Warren is proposing a 21st century version of Glass-Steagall. We need Elizabeth Warren's bill in Congress and her determination to enforce it in the White House.

Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, and Hillary Clinton oversaw the State Department during the early negotiations of the TPP and the negotiation of the proposed Keystone Pipeline. These agreements will result in still more devastating transfers of American technology and jobs to the third world and the endangerment of some of our best farmland. Elizabeth Warren opposes the secrecy with which the TPP is being negotiated. We need to rebuild industry in America. We need those good jobs. Cheap foreign imports have hurt the American middle class. Elizabeth Warren understands that. Hillary does not.

Bill Clinton signed "welfare reform." Hillary Clinton advocates for women and children, but Clinton's welfare reform has contributed to the increase in income disparity and slow economic growth in the US especially during the recent economic downturn. It enlarged the numbers of women looking for low-wage jobs thus decreasing pressure on employers to raise wages. Meanwhile, the children of the poor are left in sub-standard day care. And then we wonder why our schools are failing. It isn't our schools. It is our children who are unprepared for school Elizabeth Warren studied why individuals file bankruptcy and advocates for specific policies that will help increase economic opportunity and help families -- policies like lower interest rates on student loans, banking facilities in post offices and other things.

Bill and Hillary Clinton hob-nob with the Wall Street oligarchy. Gets them lots of donations and high pay for speeches. Elizabeth Warren strongly advocates for stricter regulation of the Wall Street oligarchy. And since bankruptcy law is her field, she understands just how Wall Street should be regulated and how to implement those regulations.

Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren both speak to labor unions. Watch the crowds. Who do American working people trust more? Elizabeth Warren. That's who. Hillary and Bill Clinton sold out to Wall Street long ago.

When it comes to foreign policy, Hillary Clinton has more experience. But is that a good thing?

Her vote on the Iraq War was not just a mistake. She failed to do her homework. That vote reveals a lot about Hillary. She is not the contrarian that Elizabeth Warren is. Hillary did not stand up and ask for more information about Iraq. Even when the women of Code Pink met with Hillary, said they had been to Iraq and that the War Resolution was wrong, Hillary voted to please the powerful, not for what was right. Hillary did not make a mistake on Iraq. She was sloppy.

The differences between Hillary and Elizabeth Warren are so numerous that I could go on and on. And on every point, Elizabeth Warren is the best. That is why I am supporting Elizabeth Warren for 2016. We really need her.

Obama promised change, but couldn't deliver. He just did not have the hunger for change that we need in a president. I think that Elizabeth Warren does. She has shown it in her life.

I suggest that you read Elizabeth Warren's book, A Fighting Chance.

Hillary is the easy way out. We tried that with George W. Bush. It did not work well. We need a candidate and a president who has the commitment to do a really great job. Elizabeth Warren is the one.

And besides, Elizabeth Warren has a better, more humble, more human, warmer personality than Hillary Clinton. It shows in their voices. Voters vote based on what they see but also on what they hear. One of Obama's advantages is that he has a warm, sonorous voice.

The Republicans have so tarnished Hillary Clinton's reputation amongst their followers that she doesn't have a chance with Republican voters.

Finally, Elizabeth Warren bakes. Elizabeth Warren's approach to economic issues, her common sense, her feminine form of feminism and her personality will earn the trust and votes of a lot of swing voters as well as Republicans -- especially Republican women.

I think Elizabeth Warren would have a very, very good chance of winning the election not just the nomination. America cannot afford another Republican president in 2016.

Don't be fooled by the current polls. Hillary has name recognition and some money, but those very "assets" could backfire badly on her in 2016.