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

[JDPriestly]

128. Here is why I think Elizabeth Warren would have broad appeal.

Regardless of the Republican propaganda, many of the homeowners and small business owners who lost their homes and businesses or who are having a hard time would listen to Elizabeth Warren's message about reining in the banks, about bank regulation and financial reform, giving little guys, the middle-class people a chance. They like the Tea Party because it pretends to be the in-your-face anti-establishment voice that Elizabeth Warren really is. I think Elizabeth Warren's fresh message could cut through the lies.

That message rises above partisan affiliation. A lot of swing and conservative voters would like to see the Fed taken down a notch. Hillary cannot do that because she is too closely dependent upon and tied to the big corporate, Wall Street crowd and their banks. She served on Walmart's board back when. Good Heavens! And Walmart supports her candidacy. Double Good Heavens.

Elizabeth Warren represents in some respects just common sense aside from party affiliation. Her approach to the economic crisis that we are still in. in spite of good job numbers, is what Americans are looking for, I believe.

Hillary is the bete noire of the Republicans. The Republican hierarchy has tried to damage Elizabeth Warren's reputation, but once she is heard, allowed to speak for herself, they will not get far with that. Warren's message is clearly aimed at the middle class. And those are the voters who could be persuaded in numbers large enough to win an election, to vote Democratic for a change, if they hear Warren's optimistic, strong ideas about financial reform. Elizabeth Warren is the ideal candidate to attract small business owners. Hillary, nor at all. Hillary is indelibly linked to the Bill Clinton/Al Gore Democratic Party.

I hear where you are coming from. The Republican smear machine is a force to be reckoned with. But Elizabeth Warren, I think would hold her own. She is from Oklahoma and lived in Texas. She can deal with the conservative mentality. That's what she was raised with. Her ideas are based on her research on why people file for bankruptcy. She doesn't just feel the pain of ordinary Americans. She has analyzed it, charted it on a spread sheet and knows how to fix it.

Hillary doesn't. Sorry. But Hillary's life has been devoted to politics. And right now, the last thing we need, maybe the last person Americans will get excited enough about to vote for, is a political hack. I'm afraid that is what Hillary has become.

Besides, Hillary's delivery in her speeches is dry and her tone is too controlled. She does not make a good candidate. She does too much of what is expected and not enough of what she really is. Elizabeth Warren comes across as sincere. Hillary does not.

We've been here before: George W. Bush came across as sincere to a lot of voters. (He wasn't.) Al Gore came across as stiff and not himself. (He was just maybe a little shy.)

Hillary has a way of laughing and acting condescending. It comes across as arrogant. She strikes me as the girl who was first in class and never wanted anyone to forget that. As one who was never the first in my class, I know how much the rest of us disliked that girl. Teacher's pet. That isn't fair, and it isn't kind on my part, but that is how most everyone else in the class feels.

Elizabeth Warren was the first in class, but she went to the local college and never got a big head about it. She won debates because she fought harder than anyone else because she knew she didn't have a new dress or expensive shoes and needed to prove herself. Elizabeth Warren is very much on the same wavelength as Americans who are trying to climb up and out of debt, pay off student loans, car loans, house loans and can't seem to ever get anywhere. I don't think Hillary can really understand that at all.

If you read Elizabeth Warren's book, you may agree with me that her life is a fight for her mother and father. She didn't feel they got a fair deal and she has tried to make that right for the rest of her life. She sees her mother and father in all the ordinary Americans who are not getting a fair deal. That is what I see as her story, and that is why I think she would make such a good president. She would fight for and put first the interests of ordinary Americans.

It isn't a matter of whether Elizabeth Warren is poor or rich. It is a matter of the fact that Elizabeth Warren understands that the playing field in the American economy is very much rigged for the rich. Because of her expertise on that issue, Warren knows what to do to even that field out a bit. Hillary doesn't. And Hillary would not dare do anything to hurt her big donors. Hillary has a lot of money for her campaign, don't ask where it comes from.

I remember traveling in Hungary during the 1960s. We stopped in what we thought would be a good place to eat. There hall was lined with long tables. I don't remember how we got our plates filled, but you just sat where there was a free chair at one of these long tables. We took a few bites and didn't know what we were eating. So my husband asked in German what the meat was. The man across from us, an older man, laughed and said,, "Better not ask." Better not ask is a good rule to follow when it comes to Hillary's donors. Better not ask. If you belong to a labor union or prefer to bank at a credit union or think the tuition is to high in your state university or would prefer single payer or at least public option insurance, want bank regulations to be better enforced, want more scrutiny on Wall Street, want some research done on the effects of charter schools or whatever, better not ask who Hillary's donors are.