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| We must demand answers from Hillary on all major issues long before 2016. (Photo: Flickr / Creative Commons / Shameek Shamigo) |
By Robert Naiman
Apparently, our American version of Iran's Guardian Council has issued a fatwa decreeing that Hillary Clinton shall be the only candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016.
I say "apparently," because our American version of the Guardian Council isn't nearly as transparent as the Iranian version. At least with the Iranian version, you can say for sure who is on the Guardian Council and who is not, and their decisions are a matter of public record. With the American version, you read in the media that Hillary is the only allowed candidate, but there is no record of the meeting where this was decided or who participated in it. All I can say for sure is that I wasn't invited...
To me, the main virtue of having Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or Jeffrey Sachs run for the Democratic nomination for President would be that it would guarantee that we'd get to have a public Democratic debate on issues... Saying that there's only one candidate allowed and we'll tell you later what her positions are is not what democracy looks like.
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