Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

sabrina 1

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6. I think the most important questions any Dem Candidate should be asked to answer before getting

Wed Jan 28, 2015, 03:33 PM

Jan 2015

our support are eg: 'Who will you be looking at for Cabinet Positions'? Treasury eg. No more Wall St Insiders. Defense: Are there no Democrats?

No doubt we will get evasive answers such as 'I assure you I will pick the most experienced people for my cabinet'. THAT is not going to work.

I want the candidates to name names.

Electing a Democrat should not mean returning those we threw out to positions of power, as happened with this administration. We still have Bush appointees in key positions in Defense eg and National Security. THAT is what we voted AGAINST.

So to me, the makeup of the President's cabinet will determine how that president will govern. And should be a top priority now that we have experienced the likes of Clapper and Gates etc which had we known, or thought to ask, ensured no change at all in FP or National Security or all the issues we were so opposed to, spying on the American people etc.

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