Be careful when responding to Hillary supporters' posts.

[JDPriestly]

165. Much as I like Elizabeth Warren, I seriously doubt that Biden is going to attract very many

Bernie supporters. He is part of the Obama team that has not dealt with the economic insecurity and the loss of industrial jobs issues.

He is part of the team that is trying to sell us on the TPP. The Bernie movement is about saying no to TPP, yes to universal healthcare and free post-secondary education and other issues. But the TPP is a deal breaker.

Just watch the videos of the Bernie speeches. See where the applause, cheers and support are. The BLM issues, the family leave, TPP, college tuition, etc., environmental issues. Biden is on the wrong side of most of those issues.,

I know there is an attempt to "heal" the division between the Hillary and Bernie sectors of the Democratic Party, but he is too tied to the very limited progress made thus far on the key issues of our time to be a winning candidate.

Bernie is a break from the past inertia. And Bernie is letting people know that change depends on everyone remaining active between elections.

The Obama administration cut itself off from its supporters almost immediately by appointing a terrible Wall Street bunch to the top economic posts in the country. Although Hillary has hired Stiglitz as her economic adviser for the campaign, it is really hard to forget that Bill Clinton appointed the czar of the boom and bust cycles -- Greenspan -- to the Fed. We are still reeling from the terrible effects of that mistake.

And our trade policy under Clinton -- the signing of NAFTA and under subsequent administrations has as Ross Perot (I was a Clinton supporter at the time because after all he was a "Democrat" supposedly) warned, sucked American jobs out of our economy. The sucking sound is still being heard -- and felt by our children. It will be felt even more by our grandchildren.

I think that offering Biden up is a very bad idea. We need real change. It isn't about intrapartisan politics. It's about doing what is best for America and Americans, and Biden, nice guy that he is or Hillary, nice lady that she is, are not what we need at this time.

Obama and Biden had their turns. They appointed Geithner to the Treasury and Holden to the Justice Departments. Those were bad appointments. And ordinary Americans have suffered as a result. People have lost their economic security. The economy is great for the 1% and a rocky road for most other people. The job numbers do not tell the whole story. Working people are afraid because their jobs are so insecure. And people in their 50s and 60s,, right on the threshold of retirement are losing jobs and spending down their savings or being forced either to invest in a dishonest stock market or get next to nothing in interest on their savings.

Biden needs to realize that the economic and social picture that his administration is leaving behind is an ugly one -- not pretty at all.

He really should not run. He will be attacked from all sides due to the economy.

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who ran on the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid." It still is.