Reply #13: There's another example she could look at

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"Her perspective as a machine insider could be important, she has seen how it works for and how it works against politicians who try to tell the truth like Kucinich or Hackett."

All the candidates need to look at Russ Feingold, who is showing the character and courage of a true representative of the American people, when no one else will, on vital issues for years now............. He says he's not running, but if he did, guaranteed a groundswell will lift him.

"If the Dems tell the truth about the Pugs, they will step on the shoes of corporate contributors."

"As working class Americans, our means and possiblities have diminished as the investor class has swollen like a tick on our daily needs. By taking our jobs to China, and selling us the things China makes via near slave labor with no environmental guards, the investor class has crippled middle class America. Down that road is far worse to come. You can tell me that the original intent was to have labor and environmental standards offset the cheapness of labor. But that never happened in the frantic stripping of our industrial base. We mostly make weapons now."

I would never tell you that about the "original intent" of NAFTA/GATT because they were obvious shell games from the start-- and predictably would lead to where we are now. Sold out and screwed.

"Everyone knows we are in quicksand. Is Hillary ready to throw Americans a rope? I would really enjoy seeing her be the Hillary of 92. We need that Hillary badly."

The President Clinton of 92 became-- as Malloy says-- the "best Republican president we've ever had" and reinforced the establishment of corporatist rule. How far off that continuing agenda would a President Hillary Clinton be?

"The misnamed independent voter is not standing as far to the right as they used to be. The left is bigger than it used to be."

What the (real) Democrats have to recognize if they want to win is that the independent/bigger left/working class (what Democrats used to represent before corporations made them a better deal) has morphed into what Thom Harmann calls the "Radical Middle." We are all in the same sinking boat. The fact of mercenary corporate rule is an open secret-- and it is unsustainable. Will Americans let themselves be led off the clliff by purty pitchers and hollow soundbites?

This Democratic campaign will be about the Corporatist vs. the Populist. That's why they floated the shitty story about Edwards mansion and jumped on the Biden quote.

Democrats may not have figured that out, but Republicons have.