Pic Of The Moment: Elizabeth Warren Gives Fiery AFL-CIO Speech

[EarlG]

Elizabeth Warren (correctly) Slams USSC for being "wholly owned subsidiary of big business"

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[Eleanors38]

1. THIS is the kind of person I can back for president.

[NYC_SKP]

25. Amen.

Exactly.

[Scuba]

2. Please, Elizabeth, please run.

[PearliePoo2]

3. She's wildly exceeding my expectations (and they were high to begin with!)

Love her...I've got a real "girl crush" going on here!

[papa3times]

38. Me too,

Elizabeth Warren is fantastic! I hope she is around for a long time.

[onehandle]

4. Must. Send. Money. nt

[progressoid]

5. We need more Elizabeth Warrens!

[Plucketeer]

35. Indeed we do!

But I'm thrilled to have this one for now. What a refreshing plume of inspiration, Elizabeth is!

[avaistheone1]

6. Elizabeth Warren reflects my values and ideas about democracy.

k&r

[TRoN33]

7. Hey Democrats...

In 2016, let go for Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren!!!

[caledesi]

13. Hillary? She will be 70 and needed surgery.

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We can only wish! Warren and Grayson is reality.
HC had BRAIN surgery! She worked very hard as SOS. I like this woman!

[cui bono]

20. What??? Clinton represents everything Warren is fighting against.

Let's keep Clinton out. We need to get someone in there who will actually fight for the people and the constitution.

[loudsue]

50. Thank you! The voice of reason returns. Clinton is part of the problem.

The DLC still owns the democratic party because of the Clintons.

[Not Sure]

62. ^ +1

Thanks for pulling back the curtain.

[mazzarro]

26. No Hillary My Friend! Not When She Is Angling For Another False Flag War -- n/t

[xxqqqzme]

65. That little

war drum beat speech sealed her fate. But then anyone paying attention would have been fairly certain what her position was going to be.

[Doctor_J]

47. .

[merrily]

51. Hillary? No.

[tom_kelly]

8. Sounds good but

I heard the same type of stuff from our current President. Don't know what happens when they're gotten a hold of.

[Eleanors38]

29. Most of life is jilted lovers; the rest is guilt.

[Plucketeer]

36. She's the real deal

Besides, if you're only gonna look back - that's where we'll end up - at the back.

WARREN / GRAYSON 2016

[Peacetrain]

9. I think the world of this woman..and I hope she does not run for President

I am so glad to see her stand up for labor and call our corporate abuse.. and I know many here pine and hope that she will run for higher office such as the Presidency or Vice Presidency

She is brilliant.. and within three weeks of her taking such an office office, she would be under someones bus.. because that is the nature of the office and the issues a President and Vice President have to deal with. It demands compromise.

Those who don't compromise fail miserably (aka Bush the younger) ..those who do.. take an the fire of the true believer.

She is a voice we need to keep pushing the average working persons agenda forward. I wish she was a Governor.. But be that as it may..she can rock the halls and make people sit up and take notice now..without having to compromise any of her positions.

And we always need people who can espouse the core beliefs with a freedom that the Presidency or Vice Presidency does not allow

[dballance]

18. I agree with you. I think she can do more by NOT being President

While, yes, I'd like to see a true progressive in the Oval Office I'm not sure that's the most effective way to get things done anymore.

The GOP has certainly proved that a Democratic President is nothing but a target for obstruction. I know this is heresy to say, but if we could actually find a true moderate Republican it might be best for the country to let that person get elected. Then use the house and senate to get things done because the GOP wouldn't have an overwhelming target to rail against non-stop in the President.

[AgingAmerican]

23. She wouldn't compromise with the psychos?

She won't give away the farm in 'Grand Bargains?' She won't adopt the GOPs 'cut everything' strategy even though economists say it is the worst possible thing to do for the economy in a recession?

Please run Elizabeth!! Please!!

[dreamnightwind]

30. Exactly

The poster you are responding to misreads the situation IMO. The reason young Bush failed so spectacularly wasn't because he wouldn't compromise. He actually showed that a determined administration can impose its will if it fights to do so. Unfortunately his policies were misguided and his appointees were incompetent cronies, that's why he failed, not because he fought for his agenda.

Compromise is why Obama has failed. I couldn't even tell you what Obama stands for, he is just another triangulater, and it's the left and the 99% that gets triangulated right out of the picture.

No more triangulating corporatists masquerading as Democrats, it gets us catastrophic results (see the financial industry deform of the 90's under Clinton, and many other misadventures). We're better off with a Republican enacting corporate policies, at least then we fight back and their party shoulders the blame for any ensuing pain.

Better to run a true Democrat who will fight for the 99%, that's what this party is supposed to be all about.

[Eleanors38]

31. She's a reformer and leader in the tradition of both Roosevelts. The 1%'s biggest threat.

[merrily]

52. She's been in elected office less than nine months.

We know less about her now than we knew about Obama when he was a US Senator that amount of time. At least he'd been a state senator for 12 years. And I still misjudged him because he gave good speeches.

Forgive me if I wait this time to see which bills she writes and gets passed.

[Eleanors38]

57. Fair enough.

[JNelson6563]

64. I couldn't agree more.

Well said!

[liberal from boston]

10. Elizabeth Warred

Proudly voted for Senator Elizabeth Warren!!! Watch out --Senator Warren is a force to be reckoned with!!!

[The Wizard]

11. The Party leaders will marginalize her

She is independent and fearless. The congressional leaders who take bribes fear her the most.

[silvershadow]

24. I don't doubt that for a nanosecond. The establishment on both sides would be after her.

I hope she runs.

[MannyGoldstein]

27. She. Hits. Back.

She got the CFPB done, then when they wouldn't let her run it she became a Senator. She's been ripping shitty regulators new orifices, and in just 8 months has become one of the most powerful voices in the Senate.

She fights, and for us.

[Eleanors38]

32. No. 1: "Captain, we straddled her!" Capt: "Commence rapid fire!"

[Eleanors38]

34. No they won't. That'll be seen as an endorsement!

[Berlum]

12. Thank you Senator Warren

Most excellent

[ctsnowman]

14. K & R

[SunSeeker]

15. K & R

[WillyT]

16. K & R !!!

[L0oniX]

17. Kay and Arr. n/t

[yesphan]

19. That photo of the

Senator is quite flattering. Mmm Hmm.

[hue]

21. Courage & integrity! Just a few of the things I love about Elizabeth Warren!!!

[CarrieLynne]

22. PLEASE!! Run for prez!!

[BlueJazz]

28. She's intelligent, forceful, strong and determined. I'm in Love

My kind of Woman. Stands up to the disgusting meat-slabs on the right.

[Bill USA]

33. I'm so glad the GOP got their way and kept her from being appointed head of the Consumer Protection

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Agency. This is so much better. thank you GOP!

Maybe one day she'll be our President!!

recommended!

[freshwest]

46. Yes, PBO picked a winner with Warren! Proud AFL-CIO member here!

The GOP thought they had won by rejecting her and loosed the whirlwind on themselves! Go Elizabeth!



K & R!

[Wilms]

37. ^

[trof]

39. Warren is the best thing to happen to the U.S. Senate in my lifetime.

I was born in 1941.

[calimary]

58. Mine, too.

I'm a 1953 baby. Hope she's the first of MANY more with that mindset.

[Agony]

40. Doublethumbsup!

[reformist2]

41. This woman is articulate, brilliant, wonderful.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

42. Senator Warren

I've gone back and forth on this remarkable woman serving as President. She's one fabulous Senator, and lord knows we need more like her in the Senate. But we've reached a point in this country where we need a champion at the helm, and I believe that would be Senator Warren. She is a seasoned fighter, knows her way around DC and would surround herself with excellent staff and cabinet members, not to mention nominating excellent Supreme Court justices. I believe her leadership style and progressive ideals would draw like-minded people to run for office in the future.

Wonder what HER feelings are?

K&R

[Not Sure]

43. Finally, something (and someone) I can get behind

on DU. It's getting old seeing how the current administration is f-ing us over every day.

[MrMickeysMom]

45. I gotta say...

That is a perfect name you have on DU!

[Not Sure]

59. It's a nod to Idiocracy, but it sure does fit recent events

[MrMickeysMom]

60. We have more and more nods to Idiocracy...

I'm living through my particular ones locally, to confirm this as one of the BEST cult movies ever produced (was that Mike Judge?)

Anyway, I knew why you chose it...

[MrMickeysMom]

44. In order for her to succeed, we (not just "labor" as a professional organization) has to...

get behind Elizabeth Warren.

Sure, the labor movement needs to get it's act together. I get more than a little pissed off at at the AF of L's Trunka for supporting the XL pipeline "for jobs". With leadership like THAT, how COULD labor get behind her?

There are lots of fights here for American jobs, you bet!

[blue14u]

48. I got tears

in my eye's/

Thank you Elizabeth Warren!

Please run for President.. 2016
PLEASE

[DonCoquixote]

49. I am wary

As in 2008,I thought I was voting FOR someone, rather than against. However, would I gladly see (and gladly help)Elizabeth run right over a certain ex senator from New York, HELL YES!

Consider me on the Warren Bus, especially if it drives over the corpses of the Democrats that could have been great, but they did not want to upset Wall Street (both Clintons and Obama would be the squishy speed bumps.)

[merrily]

53. Thank heaven. I thought I was alone.

Did we learn nothing from Obama?

She has not been in elected office for even nine full months. Talk is one thing. Actions are another.

And she says she was a Republican until she concluded that Democrats were better for financial markets.

I am not opposing her, but geez, can't we wait a minute before deciding that saying things we enoy hearing qualifies her as a liberal President?


http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/elizabeth-warren-closet-conservative_577308.html

The author of the above article is a conservative author who taught with Warren at Harvard. I'm thinking he got to know her some.

I am keeping a very open and watchful mind. Fool me once....

[DonCoquixote]

54. True but

On the other hand, just as I do think Obama was better than Clinton, I will pick Liz over Hillary any day of the week.

[merrily]

67. Point is, you have little but speeches to base that on.

Talk is cheap; beer nuts cost money. I read that right here on DU.

BTW, when primary season began, Obama and Clinton were not the only two Democratic candidates. If it had not been for Obama's words, which turned out not to match his actions, maybe we would have had a President we really knew.

I am saying only two things:

1. Watch and see.

2. Don't get so blown away by words. Pay attention to actions and actual accomplishments.

Don't really know how anyone would put a "but" to that--or would want to.

[DonCoquixote]

68. noted, BUT

I do have plenty of Hillary's "actions" to base my distrust of her on. A lot of people talk about her record as SOS as something to add, if anything, her actions in Libya are more than enough for me to not want her anywhere near the button. She has had a long, long time to make a leftward turn, and has not.

[lonestarnot]

55. Best of the best!

[ellenrr]

56. elizabeth warren serves aipacs pro-war agenda

-- how many times to people make the same mistake??!!

"The same progressives who refused to vet Barack Obama's views on foreign policy when he ran for president in 2008, and who now feel betrayed that he is not the liberal savior they imagined him to be, are repeating their mistake with Warren."

"Warren's statement on Israel consumes far more space than any other foreign policy issue on the page (she makes no mention of China, Latin America, or Africa). To justify what she calls the "unbreakable bond" between the US and Israel, Warren repeats the thoughtless cant about "a natural partnership resting on our mutual commitment to democracy and freedom and on our shared values." She then declares that the United States must reject any Palestinian plans to pursue statehood outside of negotiations with Israel. While the US can preach to the Palestinians about how and when to demand the end of their 45-year-long military occupation, Warren says the US "cannot dictate the terms" to Israel.

Warren goes on to describe Iran as "a significant threat to the United States," echoing a key talking point of fear-mongering pro-war forces. She calls for "strong sanctions" and declares that the "United States must take the necessary steps to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon" -- a veiled endorsement of a military strike if Iran crosses the constantly shifting American "red lines." Perhaps the only option Warren does not endorse or implicitly support is diplomacy. Her foreign policy views are hardly distinguishable from those of her Republican rival, who also marches in lockstep with AIPAC."

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/02/26-8

(ducking to avoid tomatoes thrown at me, but guys - if I'd a been on du when Obama was elected, I would have predicted all of you who now feel "betrayed" "disappointed" "angry".
Educate yourself before you dismiss information out of hand bec. it doesn't meet your criteria to raise somebody up to the level of savior.
remember how good Obama sounded in 08?
Look below the surface, PULEASE

[myrna minx]

61. K&R!

[snagglepuss]

63. "Reform isn't easy. Washington is a tough place. But I know this if we don't fight, we won't win."

Brilliant speech. Thanks for posting.

[Lifelong Protester]

66. If not president, Senate Majority Leader? Soon!!