Elizabeth Warren Draws Fire from Left and Right Over Clinton Endorsement

[Skwmom]

Senator Warren has built her career on criticisms of Wall Street’s money spigot, which she correctly says is corrupting government, perpetuating the growing divide between the super rich and the other 99 percent, while perverting so many members of Congress that meaningful Wall Street reform like restoring the Glass-Steagall Act hangs in limbo. And yet, despite years of pounding the table on these issues, last Thursday Senator Warren went on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC and spiritedly endorsed Hillary Clinton for President – an establishment politician with a criminal FBI investigation hanging over her head for violating State Department policy in the handling of her emails on a private server in her home while Secretary of State. Clinton is also the only Presidential candidate to have personally accepted millions of dollars from Wall Street for giving speeches and who is now refusing to release the transcripts of what she told Wall Street in exchange for those hefty fees.

Warren is clearly missing the big picture here. The Democratic base is fed up with conflating empty talk that goes nowhere with progress. Student loan debt, fueled by the same greedy Wall Street banks, is now $1.2 trillion. It’s crushing the lives of young people, creating student prostitutes at NYU, while lining the pockets of the serial criminals on Wall Street that the Obama administration refuses to put in jail.

As Warren correctly pointed out in a previous Senate hearing, Wall Street received $13 trillion in cumulative loans as a secret bailout through the Federal Reserve. Much of that money was loaned at below 1 percent interest. Struggling students, the future of America, are still paying four to six times that amount after all the talk in Washington.

Increasingly, the progressive base in America has lost confidence in its leaders in Washington. The Warren endorsement of Clinton adds mightily to the cynicism. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted June 7-10 showed that 44 percent of Democrats nationwide would like Senator Bernie Sanders to make an independent run for the White House. A mere 3 percent more, or 47 percent, said he should not.

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/06/elizabeth-warren-draws-fire-from-left-and-right-over-clinton-endorsement/

[Cali_Democrat]

2. ...

[tallahasseedem]

32. ROFL!

This picture is classic. We should all brace ourselves as A LOT of people are going to get thrown under the bus as they come out with their support of Hillary.

I, for one, am pretty damn shocked at how bad Warren has been thrown under the bus around here. She was everyone's messiah until she wasn't. I respected the fact that she stayed out of the primaries for the reason she did.

[AgadorSparticus]

47. +1000

[PJMcK]

3. She has a powerfully unique quality

She's fearless.

I can't wait to see her accomplish more great things for advancing our country. She'll have my support.

[Armstead]

7. As long as she remains fearless and independent....

and doesn't succumb to the DC elite syndrome

[yeoman6987]

12. She has been kinda quiet for a week though

I thought that was a bit strange. I hope she appears again soon. I like her speeches.

[PJMcK]

16. Interesting point, yeoman6987

Isn't it refreshing that a politician doesn't feel the need to be the lede every day?

There's another strategy in force, I think. There's slightly less than five months until the election. That's a long time and makes the campaign a marathon. You can't do too much too soon or you'll expend too much energy too early. If the attacks on Mr. Trump are strategically spread out from many different angles, it will unbalance any responses. Of course, Mr. Trump is already unbalanced!

I suspect that Secretary Clinton's team is proactively coordinating public statements with their allies. She is an extremely savvy politician.

[LanternWaste]

50. This week she spoke at the New American Open Markets project, did an appearance

This week she spoke at the New American Open Markets project, did an appearance on the View, and delivered a speech in Washington criticizing tech companies using economies of scale to reduce competition.

[Skwmom]

15. Fearless? I don't think fearless is the word to describe someone who waited on the sidelines to

endorse the candidate who represents everything she claims to be against.

[PJMcK]

17. Respectfully, I don't understand

Please explain your observation.

[CorkySt.Clair]

20. If she were really brave, she would have gone with Bernie

That's the gist of it.

[Hortensis]

24. Virtually none of his colleagues endorsed Sanders,

Corky.

That includes people who share his views and been working for and fighting to protect progressive government action for decades. They apparently just don't think he has the right stuff to work from the White House, and obviously she does not because her endorsement might well have made all the difference.

Passion is not competence. Claiming he himself is the only one and everyone else is corrupt is incompetence. But let's hope he has managed to make them wonder if they should raise their own bars in the process of insulting and denying their commitment.

"You have to bring people together who may not agree on every issue," he said, "but who understand that the middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the political life of this country." Bernie Sanders

[CorkySt.Clair]

35. I agree with you

I was just translating.

[Hortensis]

39. Oh, sorry! Having to explain that one is

just agreeing is not a fun thing. Sorry for the bother.

[PJMcK]

26. Thank you (n/t)

[Ned_Devine]

30. It has to do with this

I saw this back in 2004 and it always stuck with me.

[PJMcK]

34. Thank you for the clip (n/t)

[Ned_Devine]

38. You bet

I'm not here to do "hit" jobs or be a disruptor. I've been on this site since January on 2004 and in all my years I've never seen such blind allegiance to what I perceive to be a flawed candidate.

[zenabby]

46. I support Hillary Clinton strongly

but this is an amazing clip! Makes me stop and think..

What does it say that Hillary Clinton saw the op ed and asked Elizabeth Warren to meet with her privately and learn about the bill? She was the first lady. She didn't have to do that. It shows she is intelligent, curious, does her home work and cares to understand the details. That's more than you can say for many others.

What does it say that she went back to White House and made Bill veto the bill? It shows that she follows through, she is not all words, but actions.

What does it say that she voted for the bankruptcy bill when she was a senator? Does it show that she is a politician faced with the same pressures as most politicians and she is willing to play the game?

I was not happy about the last part. So, I did some research. This is what Hillary Clinton told in response.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/07/clinton_accuses_sanders_and_warren_of_smear_campaign.html

So she voted for it in 2001 but was against it in 2005. If she were in big bank's pockets, why did she vote against it in 2005?

I am under no illusion that she is a flaw less candidate. I just don't believe such a viable candidate exists. When Obama talked about rising the seas and so on, I rolled my eyes. All politicians are ambitious, and have to handle the multiple commitments and pressures that their job entails and still get the job done. I believe Hillary will get the job done.

[JudyM]

55. +1000. Go along to get along is nothing to aspire to in this case.

[BobbyDrake]

4. Funny how that Reuters/Ipsos poll can't be located to verify the article.

Almost like it's nothing but made-up bullshit.....

[guillaumeb]

8. Do you mean this poll?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-sanders-idUSKCN0YY0F9

How does crow taste?

[BobbyDrake]

10. Nope, because that's the article, with no link to the actual data.

There's nothing to prove what the article says.

[guillaumeb]

11. So you are calling the Reuters site incorrect?

Based on your feelings for a particular candidate?

[BobbyDrake]

27. I'm calling the site incorrect because they didn't post data to back up a claim they made.

Real polling data displays the questions asked, and the breakdown of responses. This article doesn't, nor does it link to anywhere that the data can be viewed separately.

Like I said before, it's nothing but bullshit at this point, another media attempt to keep the "horse race" alive even after Bernie had his ass handed to him by Secretary Clinton in the primary.

[Renew Deal]

5. Trump is the enemy

And so is anyone that doesn't realize that.

[PJMcK]

29. Exactly and times 1000 (n/t)

[Tal Vez]

6. Clinton and Warren share the same goals.

If Sanders had won the nomination, Warren would have endorsed him, too. Sanders will endorse Clinton, too.

The "big differences" are mostly just differences in strategies.

[geek tragedy]

9. LMAO at all the whiny losers hating on Elizabeth Warren nt

[azurnoir]

13. seems Elizabeth has been very quiet since her private meeting with Hillary Friday morning

hmmmm

[edbermac]

14. Jury results

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[stonecutter357]

52. How did you get Jury results for this OP?

[edbermac]

53. It was before the switchover.

[stonecutter357]

54. thanks.

[Nye Bevan]

18. It's going to be fun when Bernie endorses Hillary (nt)

[pdsimdars]

19. I lost all respect for her.

[peace13]

36. It was bad when she endorsed Hill but...

....when she was goading Trump, Who I feel is beneath her concern, that iced it.

[NCTraveler]

21. Not from this lefty.

[JoePhilly]

22. The wheels on the bus go round and round.

Look out Liz!!!!

[jillan]

23. It's not because she endorsed Clinton. It's because she endorsed a candidate that represents

everything she has been fighting against since her tenure in DC.

It makes Bernie supporters, like myself, wonder who is the real Elizabeth Warren?

It sent a very confusing message. Elizabeth has gone after Hillary on several occasions.

This one is a head scratcher.

[Pastiche423]

41. Exactly!

It makes not a lick of sense to me.

Was Elizabeth lying the whole time she was screaming about Wall Street?

It sure seems that way now.

I am incredibly disappointed in her.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. did you miss when she encouraged hillary to run a few years ago?

why would she encourage HRC if she didn't want HRC as the nominee?

[still_one]

25. Honestly, those who have issues with Hillary being the nominee, get over it, she's the nominee

This pattern by some of trashing any person or group that has endorsed Hillary reflects an intolerance and arrogance that only THEIR view counts

[TheKentuckian]

28. Only the Turd Way view has counted for decades, what you are seeing is a little pushback.

[still_one]

37. name calling is such a classy way to respond. I have no doubt you have already catorgized me

[TheKentuckian]

44. I called someone a name? Sounds like a fabrication.

[NCTraveler]

31. Which direction are you firing from? Nt

[NorthCarolina]

33. In the End,

we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[840high]

40. .+1

[shanti]

42. Very fitting

Thanks

[eastwestdem]

43. Really? She can't even endorse the party nominee without backlash? nt

[AgadorSparticus]

48. Isn't that crazy???!?!?!!!

[MohRokTah]

45. .

[LuvLoogie]

51. The Democratic base voted for Hillary.