Can we get a constitutional amendment to bar people named "Bush" and "Clinton" from the presidency?

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64. Yep, I think Edwards was left in to draw our votes then...

I really think that perhaps the PTB knew about his problems way earlier and let him stay in the race until right before the big primaries happened, so that it would keep any other voices other than Obama or Clinton from being in the race at that point. And it would serve to have Democrats in the primary putting less pressure on either Obama or Clinton to speak up on details of who would provide better progressive leadership, since the progressives at that point were already seeing that choice in Edwards then.

I was thinking that without Edwards, Kucinich would have had a lot more support, and even if he didn't get nominated, would have served to steer the discussion more towards progressive issue stances on the part of Obama or Clinton in the last half of the primary season instead of just talking about nebulous "hope and change" that many hoped would be a more FDR-like vision than it really was. I think the process behind the scenes was manipulated to be that way.

If Edwards weren't having those problems behind the scenes and had stayed in the race and won, I think he might have had a good shot to win the general election too. But that's asking for a different person than who Edwards really was inside. But we shouldn't allow the rest of America to see those who take progressive stances all being like an Edwards or for that matter an Anthony Weiner, which the media wants us to have that view of candidates like them. i do believe if we can talk someone like Warren in to running, the corporate PTB will genuinely be scared that the 2016 race won't be one that they'd be able to manipulate like they have in recent times.