Why do I feel like Hillary is being forced on me?

[JDPriestly]

39. Both Hillary and Bernie Sanders are making test visits to Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming

week. Hillary v. Bernie -- at least the issues that Americans need to think about will be discussed. I wish Bernie well. I want to see how he does. I hope he will make a lot of friends and become a strong candidate, maybe win.

I don't think people hate Hillary. I for one just don't think she would make a good president. I'm sure she is a nice person. Her stands for women and children are commendable. She just, in my view, would make neither a good candidate nor a good president. I have explained why in great detail so many times and it is so late tonight, that I will pass on writing a long post on my thoughts on this.

But I don't think anyone hates Hillary. Not wanting someone to run does not equal hating that person. Hillary and Bill do a lot of good charitable work. That is great. But Hillary should not try to run again. Her time to run is past. The OP is correct. Her candidacy will just be a review of all the mistakes of the Clintons -- the Clinton administration, etc. Every negative foreign policy development will be blamed on Hillary. It may not be fair, but that is what will happen.

We have some really good potential candidates. Elizabeth Warren comes across to the public very well. She can explain complex issues in terms everyone can understand. (So can Bernie Sanders.) Elizabeth Warren is energetic and not worn out. Both she and Bernie have great empathy and excellent values. Elizabeth Warren has great ideas about our economy. She knows a lot about whey our economy is so bad. Her career was studying bankruptcy law and why people declare bankruptcy. She would be able to respond on economic issues to the entire Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan nonsense. Bernie Sanders has the experience and the broad understanding of the issues to make a great candidate. In fact, Bernie Sanders is probably the candidate with the most valuable mixture of understanding of the issues, compassion for ordinary people, the ability to find solutions for difficult problems,, patience, character, humility and everything we need in a president. He also has a Brooklyn accent -- and is a man. I think a lot of people want a woman as president in 2016. That is one of the reasons the Party big-wigs are pushing Hillary. She is one of them. They know her. She really, really, really wants the honor of the nomination. And so they support her thinking she will raise a lot of money. I have actually heard that from a very, very active Democrats: It has to be Hillary because only she has the money to run.

Nonsense. When only a person with a lot of money raised can run on behalf of one of our two political parties, we no longer have a representative democracy. We have an oligarchy, pure and simple, The ideas and needs of us little people don't count for much at all. Might as well just stay home if a candidate who has integrity and is the best qualified is not supported by the Democratic Party because he or she does not have a treasure chest of corporate money behind him or her.