"We must get money out of politics, even if it takes a Constitutional Amendment." Reality time.

[JDPriestly]

3. Thank you. You provided a lot of facts that I did not know or had forgotten.

Especially about Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign.

I'm supporting Bernie Sanders at this point. Thus far, I think he has the cleanest record in terms of the sources of his campaign funds and is the most credible on the issue of campaign finance and (too many ands, I know) the more likely than Elizabeth Warren to run.

But then, anything could happen to Hillary Clinton because she has taken the easy way out in the past in order to accumulate enough money to fund her campaign.

I think that Hillary Clinton needs more money than someone like Bernie Sanders does to run. That is because Hillary Clinton needs a lot of political and media and image advisers in order to maintain the slick kind of campaign she needs to compete with a charlatan like Ted Cruz or a person with personal assets and very rich backers like Jeb Bush.

I don't think Bernie Sanders needs that stuff. He is a crusty old, very smart, very down-to-earth guy. People naturally like him because he is so himself.

I think the only candidate who has said he is seriously thinking about running, the only one who could maybe turn around our campaign finance trap and defeat the money of the 1% is Bernie. And he may not have to win the presidency to do it although I think he would make a great president and of the likely contenders, the best president of the lot.

I hope Bernie runs as a Democrat. It would cause complete chaos in the money-run Democratic Party that we now know, and I think that would be a good thing.