Progressives turn from Obama to embrace Warren

[PoliticAverse]

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Populist Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a rock-star reception during a standing-room-only campaign rally here Monday, as hundreds of liberal activists cheered her broadsides against corporate interests and voiced hopes that her presence might shift the political winds in an increasingly Republican state.

The rally on behalf of Senate candidate Natalie Tennant was the latest in a string of recent Warren appearances in red and blue states alike, where Democratic base voters have embraced her fiery message as an envoy to working-class voters frustrated with both Wall Street and the Obama administration.

“Our job is to fight for the families of America,” Warren said, speaking to a packed ballroom at the Clarion Hotel in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle. “Stitch up the tax loopholes so that millionaires and billionaires pay at the same tax rate as the people in this room.”

Warren stumped in Kentucky late last month for Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who, like Tennant, is running for the Senate in a state easily won by Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. Later this week, the freshman senator and former Harvard professor will be in Michigan supporting Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters.

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[delrem]

1. Maybe. But having been burned once,

I require that candidates put their promises in writing.
Not in the middle of flowery speeches. But in plain prose with the intention that, if the promise isn't kept, there should be an accounting exactly w.r.t. those terms.

[djean111]

2. Why would any Progressives still have been looking to Obama?

And yeah, once burned by campaign blather, ten times as suspicious.
I still won't listen to campaign speeches. Deeds not words, and campaign speeches are now accepted as false but okay advertising, because the only goal is to win at all costs. Those costs are becoming quite dear, in terms of money and corporate policy.

[L0oniX]

5. No real progressive would fawn over Obama. We were thrown under the bus immediately...

after his first election.

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[L0oniX]

4. "billionaires pay at the same tax rate as the people in this room"???

Really? Why be so nice? They (most) are our enemies. They (most) don't care if the people suffer from their Machiavellian sociopath ways. The fawning brown shirts are going to foist Hillary on us to keep the corporatist rule.

[Stellar]

6. I'm still liking Obama but

ready for Liz!

[twirlybird]

7. I'd vote for her and Bernie Sanders

I voted for Obama the first time but not the second...I could see where he was headed the first time.