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[JDPriestly]

66. That is not the point at all.

Hillary may have and may have had very different opinions from Bill. We know that she did on the Monica Lewinsky matter. That's for certain.

But her campaign will have to spend enormous amounts of time fielding questions about the minutiae of differences between Bill's actions then, her opinions now, etc. The fact is that a lot of what Bill Clinton did was good, but an awful lot of it had bad repercussions after 2000. Fair or not, Hillary will be called to answer for what happened during the first Clnton administration.

We Democrats do not need the distraction of that kind of a vulnerable candidate.

Elizabeth Warren has spent her life studying the economic issues that push people into bankruptcy. She has a lot of experience in government THAT IS RELEVANT to the current state of our country. Hillary has experience in other areas, but we need Elizabeth Warren in the White House so that she can make appointments to the Treasury Dept. (not based on the political debts
that Hillary owes), the regulatory commissions like the SEC, etc. and the Fed.

We need Elizabeth Warren in a position in which she can enforce the laws that those too cuddly with Wall Street dare not enforce.

Hillary polls high now, but she is extremely vulnerable to attacks on her lack of populist credentials. And Hillary is not really a populist. At least her public image is not that of a populist. Bill came across because of his personality as more of a populist than Hillary although Bill's policies and appointments were not very populist.

The victory of Brat over Cantor reflects the rising populism of the electorate in this country. Ordinary Americans feel that their interests have been subordinated to those of the banks, Wall Street and the 1% to a point that is intolerable. Americans do not want socialism. Americans want fairness, openness and opportunity. And they will look for a candidate in 2016 who will stand up for those values. Hillary is not the person to do that even if she does share those values.