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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
37. I want to be very positive.
Sun Apr 19, 2015, 06:25 PM
Apr 2015

I think we can do better than Hillary. She is the corporate candidate par excellence.

I have volunteered for Bernie Sanders.

I also like Elizabeth Warren.

I suspect that Warren will only run if Hillary Clinton blatantly goes toward the right and does not at least pay lip service to Elizabeth Warren's economic issues. Hillary Clinton will probably avoid that mistake.

But Hillary Clinton's campaign could crash and burn.

I note that she looks great and that her voice has improved since 2008, but she has quite a history to deal with. And the history of Bill Clinton's relationship with the bankers, with Citigroup, with Summers and Geithner and with the media and "free" trade -- will be hard for Hillary to explain if she has any challenge from the left.

Hillary Clinton will face a barrage of mostly unfair and unfounded criticism from the Republicans. She tends to take things personally (based on what I have seen in the past). Needs to do a lot of prayer and meditation if she is to withstand what is about to happen to her. No. It isn't fair. No. It isn't nice. But it is going to happen.

I repeat that I have volunteered for Bernie Sanders.

I think that Bernie Sanders has the selflessness and the innate fairness that will make him an even stronger candidate than Obama was. Bernie is fully himself, and that is his strength. He shouldn't change a hair and he should own every wrinkle and laugh at every joke about his appearance, Brooklyn accent, etc. And that is what he is doing.

I think that in spite of all the challenges he will face, Bernie is a guy that will grab America's heart. He has a kind of contagious way about him that makes you like him. He is unassuming. There isn't the slightest bit of conceit in his body or brain. He seems to be a bit of an absent-minded professor as we used to say, but he is always focused and in the moment. He has an extremely sharp mind and so many years of experience that he does not need a lot of handlers to tell him what to say. He will make mistakes but they will be honest mistakes that make him more appealing, make him seem all the more authentic to voters.

So I'm backing Bernie Sanders. I think he has a good chance to win the nomination.

If Hillary cannot win the nomination due to the fact that other potential candidates enter the field, then she will not be able to win the general election.

Neither Hillary nor any other potential candidate has anything to lose due to the presence of other primary candidates.

I don't feel discriminated against by HRC supporters. I strongly oppose her cali Apr 2015 #1
+1 AtomicKitten Apr 2015 #4
Funny thing. Pat Buchanan was a good buddy of Thompson, too. McCamy Taylor Apr 2015 #6
why is it a funny thing that "Pat Buchanan was a good buddy of Thompson, TOO? cali Apr 2015 #9
That was assinine. Marr Apr 2015 #23
pretty funny, actually. Taylor piously explains to us about how we shouldn't cali Apr 2015 #29
+1 n/t Ms. Toad Apr 2015 #31
Fortunate really. zeemike Apr 2015 #39
Amen and thank you. n/t jaysunb Apr 2015 #10
My sentiments, exactly. Taylorz Apr 2015 #24
Discuss the issues in a proactive fashion. FarPoint Apr 2015 #33
I see some people bashing those who do not support Hillary at this time and what's funny is Autumn Apr 2015 #2
Pardon me. Who did I attack--other than GOPers who "slime"? McCamy Taylor Apr 2015 #3
Okay Autumn Apr 2015 #5
so we're allowed to criticize as long as we word it the way you want us to. No thanks. liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #7
You misunderstand me. You can write anything you want. DU is allowed to distrust YOU McCamy Taylor Apr 2015 #8
LOL. "DU is allowed to distrust you". Big of you to cali Apr 2015 #11
Voting for the war in Iraq is a legitimate criticism. 99% of the criticisms I have heard on DU have liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #12
Word it any way you like, just know that if your criticism sounds like the right wing okaawhatever Apr 2015 #14
my criticism does not sound right wing, and I still get compared to them. It is a tactic to try liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #16
Repond however you wish, but know that if your response is full of disdain for the left cui bono Apr 2015 #19
but it's OK for the op to lump me together with Pat Buchanan, right? cali Apr 2015 #30
I don't feel bad...The mob made Socrates drink the hemlock, nailed Jesus to a cross... DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #13
Excuse me? Now we're being compared to the mob that killed Jesus and burned Joan of Arc? liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #15
You're accusing me of being a bully to diminish, demean, dehumanize, and demoralize me is ... DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #17
You may think whatever you like of me. I am voting for Bernie Sanders and I am putting you liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #22
The only thing more ugly than naked aggression is passive aggression . DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2015 #25
All you can do is sit back and laugh at the ridiculousness of some (not all) Hillary supporters. The name calling certainly does not reflect well on their so-called "champion." InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2015 #42
Not sure how one can be discriminated against on DU except by groups... cui bono Apr 2015 #18
Amen to that. djean111 Apr 2015 #28
Kick & recommended. William769 Apr 2015 #20
Prepare for Incoming. I'm ready: freshwest Apr 2015 #21
Most ....perceptive comment here. pangaia Apr 2015 #38
Never occurred to me to feel "discriminated against". Much less "belittled". Bwah! djean111 Apr 2015 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author GeorgeGist Apr 2015 #27
What phrases, pray tell, will be acceptable to the anti-anti-Clinton camp? Jim Lane Apr 2015 #32
great post, as are so many others of your posts cali Apr 2015 #35
Thanks. So right. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #40
So HRC is the victim of some grand plan, but Doctor_J Apr 2015 #34
there really is a vast right wing conspiracy. mopinko Apr 2015 #36
I want to be very positive. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #37
I find efforts at belittlement from thirdwayers/HC supporters as amusing stupidicus Apr 2015 #41
+1 InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2015 #43
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