There were conflicting pieces over the past couple of days on The Daily Kos as to whether or not Hillary Clinton is the best Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 2016. Egberto Willies makes the case that what we need is a transformative President who fights for the kinds of causes that we Liberals have been fighting for years and Ms. Clinton is not that candidate--he's right (though at the end he mentions the rise of a populist republican candidate...which is only slightly less plausible than there being a man on the moon). Kos takes up the cause that Ms. Clinton is the best candidate because of what her candidacy would mean for Democrats down ticket, as well as into the all important 2020 elections (redistricting). He's right as well.
You know the candidate I want? This guy:
"These unhappy times call for the building of plans...that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."
Though those words could have been spoken today, they were spoken in April of 1932 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he campaigned for a Presidency he would eventually win four times.
Considerably more possible than a Liberal republican is that this Democratic candidate is out there for us to find (and not named Elizabeth Warren)--one who sets as his or her agenda the right and the fight for a better economic life for the forgotten men and women of our working class.
Peace,
emaycee
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