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ProudToBeBlueInRhody

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9. I think it's coming from people who don't much care about party politics
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 02:02 PM
Nov 2013

They are always trying to find the "agenda" behind ever story.

I think it's amazing we've come to a point where a woman is the clear front runner for our party's nomination (over a sitting veep) and another woman is the dark horse candidate. I suppose there's a parallel to the last election, where the same woman and an African American man were in similar positions.

I'm a fan of Liz Warren, I think she falls far more in line with what need economically at this point in our country, but she also just got elected to office. I know, very similar to Obama (and I was for a time in the "too soon" camp with him). I sort of wish the 2013 version Hillary, complete with her record as Secretary of State, had existed in 2008, because I was not a fan of 2008 Hillary.

What the grousers fail to see is that very few are proposing Warren because she's a woman. It's because she's now a political star, same as Obama. They just want it to fit the agenda, so they can pull the "There you go again, DU" card....because this one must shatter all the notions they claim are fact about this place....that it is somehow anti-women, etc. etc.

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Only on DU do you see this Major Nikon Nov 2013 #1
I expect that from people who don't care about Democratic Party politics. nt ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #2
It's the mens group's fault Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #3
If I didn't know better... Bonobo Nov 2013 #4
Of course they're upset.. Upton Nov 2013 #5
Less? There is never LESS. nt Demo_Chris Nov 2013 #20
Results of your Jury Service LittleBlue Nov 2013 #6
Thanks for the info Major Nikon Nov 2013 #7
Oh ffs. HappyMe Nov 2013 #8
I think it's coming from people who don't much care about party politics ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #9
I think it's as you said. HappyMe Nov 2013 #10
And mind you, I'm not pushing for Warren to run ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #11
As far as I'm concerned, Clinton isn't all that electable. HappyMe Nov 2013 #12
For better or for worse, running is encoded into the Clinton DNA. I would be shocked if she didn't. Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #13
I don't know. To me, the ability to fling an insult, HappyMe Nov 2013 #14
If Bill's recent potshot at the ACA and Obama is the sort of "triangulation" we can expect from Warren DeMontague Nov 2013 #15
Yeah, that really pissed me off too. nt RiffRandell Nov 2013 #19
I honestly wish she wouldn't. RiffRandell Nov 2013 #16
But Bill Clinton would have easily been re-elected if he could have run again ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #17
Living here is a different story, and has made me extremely pessimistic RiffRandell Nov 2013 #18
Look, I don't want to hijack the thread but a couple things. RiffRandell Nov 2013 #21
No worries ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2013 #22
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