Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

[JDPriestly]

208. The fact that so many people do not want Hillary Clinton to run

will, I hope discourage her from running.

I cannot think of any other potential Democratic presidential candidate who already has so much grassroots opposition in the party.

She is a controversial potential candidate. That in and of itself should give her pause and help her decide to avoid splitting the party. Her run will mean that I, for the first time in my life, do not vote for a Democrat in a presidential election.

It isn't Hillary as a person although I do not think she makes a good candidate. It is her positions on most issues that will cause me to vote for any Democrat but Hillary.

Her vote on the Iraq War was not a mistake. It was proof that she does not doe her homework, research issues thoroughly before making decisions. She takes the easy way out.

Where does she, for example, stand on fracking.

She always takes an easy point of view, the one that is favored by the big money like Wall Street and big business. We have a number of potential candidates in the Democratic Party who do ask questions, who do think for themselves, who don't just follow the money and who would be better candidates and better presidents than Hillary.

I would like to see a primary campaign in which various Democrats participate and challenge each other. I think that would be good for the country and good for the Democratic Party. We need to invigorate the Party with new ideas. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would do well to challenge Hillary.

To allow Hillary to go into the 2016 November election without strong challenges in the primaries would be a great disservice to American voters.

I believe that Elizabeth Warren would make the best president we could get in the US in 2016. She has and excellent character and the knowledge and understanding of the economic issues that are weakening our country. Hillary's background just does not give her that insight. And it is that insight on economics that we need for 2016.

Our country is approaching bankruptcy not because we are overspending but rather because our industry, the work of our American scientists and inventors has literally been shipped overseas due to our trade agreements. We need to revitalize our industry, encourage those among us who are problem-solvers and inventors. NAFTA is one of the most detrimental laws/agreements that we have entered into in a long time. Bill Clinton was responsible for it. Hillary was responsible for the State Department during the negotiation of a number of trade and other agreements that are going to seriously hurt working people in our country.

Hillary should not be the next president. She is simply not qualified to deal with the challenges the people, the ordinary people of the US are facing and will face in coming years.

We need a new candidate with new ideas who is not in too much political debt to the current powers that be on Wall Street, in the military-industrial complex and overseas. Hillary is not that candidate. She is no doubt a nice lady and certainly has lots of friends and admirers, but she is not right for the country for 2016.