Elizabeth Warren: "Give me a break."

[Scuba]

[djean111]

1. I would like to give you my vote.

And that puts things in a better perspective. The correct perspective.

[billhicks76]

71. Coming Home To Roost

The criminals behind the corporations are going to get broken and they can't blame anyone but themselves.

[TBF]

2. Elizabeth nails false equivalency -

she'd make mincement of the trolls who come to DU.

[elzenmahn]

73. K and freaking R

Just simple, common-sense truth.

[think]

3. Spot on /nt

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

[Le Taz Hot]

5. She HAS to run.

She just HAS to run.

[closeupready]

6. I would do anything to see that happen.

From your lips ...

[YOHABLO]

13. She's not going to run.

[daleanime]

31. Wouldn't it be a better distraction.....

to say who you would rather support and why?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

39. Yes, she will run. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

7. She'd make a great running mate for a former Walmart board member

Oh. Wait. Never mind.

[Scuba]

8. The former WalMart board member can't hold a candlestick to Elizabeth.

[RufusTFirefly]

9. Of course she can't. I totally agree with you.

That's why I think pairing them up would be absurd. And depressing.

[winter is coming]

11. I can't imagine that either of them would be interested in such a pairing. n/t

[bvar22]

62. ...but...but...but...Elizabeth Warren said that Hillary was "terrific"...

...on a television interview when asked what she though of Hillary.
The Hillary crowd here immediately took that for an endorsement.

[winter is coming]

63. Yeah, my hopes were completely crushed by that interview.

I was so expecting that Warren would come out and say that Hillary is a booger-eating kitten juggler unworthy of high office.

[YOHABLO]

14. I think Warren can be more effective in the Senate than as VP

[RufusTFirefly]

17. I agree

I think any effort to make her VP would be an attempt to muzzle her.
Admittedly, she's tough to muzzle (thank heaven for that!), but even so.
The only way I can see her as VP is with a President who's even more progressive.
Otherwise, if she runs at all, I hope she reaches for the brass ring.

[tavalon]

38. Damn, that would be golden, wouldn't it?

[Scuba]

26. Me too, that's why I'm backing her for POTUS.

[Scootaloo]

66. I have to disagree

Mind, I wouldn't mind president Warren...

But I prefer Senator Warren, and want 99 more just like her.

Legislative is where the power starts.

[Scuba]

74. That's the meme from those who don't want her to run. Of course it's bullshit.

No Senator weilds more power than the POTUS.

[SQUEE]

34. I agree, I am sure she will be offered the job, and hope she refuses

I just don't want to wait 10 years for this woman to be my president, I dont want to wait 2 to be honest...

it actually depresses me to know we have someone so in tune, and so ready, that she is wasting that fire and insight in the Senate. We as Americans NEED Elizibeth to run, before it is too damn late.

[rhett o rick]

56. She wont be offered the job. The Democratic Party has made a strategic decision to forsake the left

to get the right of center vote. Corporate money, like Goldmen Sachs-O-Money, dont like Sen Warren.

[SQUEE]

58. They know we have no where else to go...

What option is there, I for one am sick of having to vote for least worse candidates.

I don't expect perfection or total allignment, Senator Warren and I most definitely disagree on the 2nd, but I deal with that issue in my state, and despite my vociforousness on it here, it is not the be all end all of my political views. Her stance as the corporate giant killer, ending student loan slavery and taking on the banks for us, all things that are more crucial to every one than a future showdown over gun ownership. I believe if she or someone damn near like her does not get the White House soon,we will irretrevibly lose this country to the Corporations.

I do not see Warren as a Left candidate, taking on corruption and the idea of a fair country for the people are ideas most every American believes in, it is the media that has convinced us that standing up for a square deal is some radical leftist notion, we need to reject that, and spread the word, and pressure her to run.

[rhett o rick]

59. I just had a discussion with someone that stated that "a little is better than none."

Well each year that "little" gets less and less and will soon be nothing. H. Clinton-Sachs is not the candidate that will halt the current transfer of wealth.

[SQUEE]

60. Agreed, we need no more cronyism, Warren has to run.

I have lent out my copy of her book twice already, and have bought 3 copies to start passing out as well, if enough of us can really get the message out there, away from the medias slant, we may have a fighting chance.

[rhett o rick]

61. I have just gotten a good start on her book. But we must get other progressives

in offices to help her. The movement has started we just need to get it out.

[winter is coming]

64. "You have nowhere else to go" isn't a good way to get people to campaign or vote for you.

Perhaps the Party leadership thinks that statement is equivalent to "we're your best option", but what it really says is, "We don't give a shit about representing your interests and we're not going to listen to you."

[SammyWinstonJack]

78. They know we have no where else to go and they're hell bent to keep it that way.

[L0oniX]

70. Let em elect Hillary with out us then.

I damn sure ain't going to vote for Hillary ...no matter what.

[rhett o rick]

72. She will be nominated. The oligarch powers would rather have Jeb but Hillary would be better for

them than Sen Sanders or Sen Warren. The left doesnt have enough clout or money to prevail.

[Brigid]

36. To me, this seems to be how she feels.

And why she is saying "no" to running for President. Though I think I would throw a party if she were to change her mind.

[JackRiddler]

50. Snort.

I figure she'd be even more effective as a Harvard professor than in the Senate. Or wait, maybe as a talk show host? A motivational speaker on tour?

The important thing is, how can she best serve the Inevitable Clinton?

[azureblue]

10. Then

Please say out loud the name, and the years (from / to) this person was a "Wal Mart board member" and what was this person's function on that alleged "board"?

[RufusTFirefly]

12. Sorry, my mistake. I meant an unrepentant saber rattler and XL pipeline cheerleader

And there, I just said the person's name out loud.

I don't know why you would make such a request since you shouldn't be able to hear me.
Or are you with the NSA?

P.S. Sorry. I'm not taking your bait.

[Jackpine Radical]

46. Not to mention Iraq War supporter…

[RufusTFirefly]

48. Indeed. Not to mention a disgusting role in using the Hydrocarbon Law to blackmail Iraq

"Nice little country you got there, Iraq. It would be a shame if something happened to it."

That law essentially opened the door to privatizing Iraq's oil and giving American companies first priority. In short, it amounted to blackmail and theft.

And yet the aforementioned played a key role in perpetuating the canard that the new Iraqi government was dragging its feet and being uncooperative, disingenuously diverting attention away from the fact that we were holding its most valuable resource hostage.

[heaven05]

20. been living in a cave, huh?

[reformist2]

81. LOL!

[Half-Century Man]

15. Money out of politics thats the only answer.

Business experts out of politics. Business skills do not translate into governmental skills.
Those trained in business administration have no value as diplomats.

[Leme]

27. should keep a few around

in case we run into some Ferengi.

[Maineman]

52. Very true. Look at George W. I sure am glad we did no elect Money Romney.

[vlakitti]

16. I subscribe to the San Francisco Chronicle

and Senator Warren seems to be parodying them and their social and economic perspective. Out here it's the phrase "special interests". All the time. Same thing, same false equivalence. Same baloney.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Warren are speaking from a working class perspective I haven't heard from the Democratic Party since everyone bought into trickle-down Reaganism, and that's been thirty years of voodoo economics and the attempted destruction of every reform of the New Deal and the 20th Century.

I like the phrase "the French aristocracy didn't see it coming, either." I hope it sticks.

[heaven05]

23. bravo!

[Jackpine Radical]

47. "The French aristocracy didn't see it coming, either."

Now, there's a bumper sticker for ya!

[JDPriestly]

18. Woo-Hoo! I lover her.

Woman after me own heart. Keep fighting for us Elizabeth. We really, really love you.

We need you in the White House making fighting noise. Please run in 2016. Please, please.

[woo me with science]

19. THANK YOU, ELIZABETH WARREN!

It's ABOUT TIME someone called out that horseshit!

[heaven05]

21. I'm glad I voted for her, in my heart

I'm not a Massachusetts native. Yet as POTUS, I think those corporate, billionaire, bankers dollars and repthug obstructionism would thwart her just like BO. If not her, key people in her administration. But who knows what she could do against those trillions of repthug dollars.

[madokie]

22. Oh how I would love to see her and Bernie on the same ticket

for President, Vice President. Either one at the top of the ticket would be fine with me. Although I'd really like to see her break through the glass ceiling

[Fuddnik]

24. Draft Elizabeth Warren.

Love that woman.

[davidpdx]

25. Good one

I'm impressed with Warren and very much open to the idea of her as a candidate for president.

[SamKnause]

28. Labor's voice is but a whisper.

Wall Street, CEO's, and corporations have the bullhorn.

[Whisp]

33. Clinton seems to think otherwise:

or maybe that was just another one of the Misspeaky things:

[SamKnause]

40. She is a tool of the elites.

She is a hypocrite.

She is a warmonger.

She will not get my vote.

[daleanime]

29. K&R....

[Dawgs]

30. Uh oh! Sounds like she's pro lobbyist.

Could be a problem if she decides to run for president.

[Whisp]

32. Good morning, Elizabeth and a big K&R for you.

[johnnyreb]

35. SWOON!!!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

37. giant kick and rec!

[Burf-_-]

41. I love her !

LOVE LOVE LOVE HER !!!!

[Phlem]

42. What a true Democrat would say.

She's the real deal.

[Enthusiast]

43. K&R! There Elizabeth stands fighting against a common false media narrative!

Unlike some Democrats that will not mention this stuff. Kind of makes you wonder what side they are actually on.

Go, Elizabeth!

[Scuba]

44. I'm done wondering.

[Enthusiast]

45. Me too. I was just trying to be nice.

[winter is coming]

55. They'll need to focus-group that and get back to you. n/t

[Maineman]

49. Run Betsy Run !!!

[another_liberal]

51. Kick it up there!

Go Elizabeth!

[Uncle Joe]

53. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Scuba.

[DhhD]

54. In Warren's current Senatorial positional, she could run a campaign against corporatist Democrats

over the next 8 years (which she is doing now). Hillary Clinton as President could give Warren the opportunity to become more intensive. It may take several years to rid our democracy of fascism. During the last term of Clinton's two terms, a President could move very Left, of Center, just in time for Warren's first of two terms beginning January 2025. That is my opinion.

[Scuba]

75. Clinton would only move us deeper and deeper into the fascism. That's her bread and butter.

[supercats]

57. WILL YOU PLEEEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT!!!

We, the American people need you!!!

[red dog 1]

65. K&R...Thanks for posting. Scuba

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Draft Elizabeth Warren in 2016.

[ELI BOY 1950]

67. Agreed BUT...

I believe she will be more effective where she is...if Hillary runs that will open the gate for Warren.
REMEMBER Hillary comes out of the corporate world and is nowhere near as far to the left as Warren...

Let our girl Liz get her feet wet and slowly move the right leaning dems to the left...it will take time but will be done.

[Scuba]

76. That's the meme from those who don't want her to run. Of course it's bullshit.

Clinton would only make things worse. I'll take Warren, and a whole lot of others, before Clinton.

[winter is coming]

79. Please explain how and why someone who "comes out of the corporate world" would

"open the gate" for Warren.

[myrna minx]

68. K&R /nt

[mylye2222]

69. RUN ELIZABETH.

Go on, wonderful brilliant and TRUTH SPEAKING Lady!!!!!!

[libodem]

77. Exactly

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[NealK]

80. K&R n/t