Robert Reich -- Hillary "cannot run on being the first woman to be president..."

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188. Personally I think Frances Perkins should be considered to be on our currency someplace...

She was the brains behind FDR's "New Deal" on his cabinet that wrote most of the details of it. I think a lot of credit should be given to her for fixing our government then, and providing us hope that someone could do it again when we so sorely need it now.

I do think that we need a strong voice for women's rights, but I think we can't leave it there. The country so needs someone that can stand up to the 1% that is funding so much of the corruption that has so many politicians only look at social issues instead of the fundamental issues like wealth inequality, voting rights, domestic spying, outsourcing and crappy free trade deals, "corporate personhood" and "money is speech" related issues, that they are fighting a lot harder and being more successful at keeping off of both parties' agendas in ways that serve us the people.

I want a woman like Elizabeth Warren that can pave the way for women AND work on these other fundamental issues that should be prioritized over everything else at this time so that we can deal with the other issues far more constructively later and not just in ways that look more like "window dressing" the way the PTB want them to be dealt with now.