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Dan8267 says

She clearly is one of the fed people trying to protect the middle class from its utter dismantlement.

Yeah that's why She left quietly leaving the CFPB business unfinished. There's never been more fraud and corruption involved with Credit than ever. She didn't do jack shit but talk talk, perhaps she could have done something. But I don't have any use for these neocrat line toters.

Dan8267 says

neither of you are bitching about the lies told by Bush and Cheney; lies that lead to mass death and destruction as well as pissing on the Constitution.

I sure as hell did not support this either - especally given the $$ cost of that debacle, in blood and money - but alas, that is in the past - unless our government is trying to find a way of preventing another such disaster - it is well time to get over that and move on...
Dan8267 says

Some lies matter.

ALL lies matter - especially from our elected public servants . .

Obama fails MISERABLY when it comes to character, he certainly is no alter boy - so I would rather take my chances on someone else - the more experienced "lesser of two evils" as I see it... Who among these candidates walks on water?? If they were so clean as to do so, they probably wouldn't be in politics to begin with....

I don't think she is qualified for the position. She means well, but good intentions alone isn't good enough. Obamas administration had good intentions, and miserably failed out of sheer incompetence, like Carter.

FortWayne says

Obamas administration had good intentions, and miserably failed out of sheer incompetence, like Carter.

You'd like that. I guess it was the plan of republican congressmen. Assholes who care so little for this country that they promote extreme dysfunction in the hopes that they can blame Obama for it.

The extreme dysfunction that exists in congress is no more Obama's fault than the depression is, that hit us before he started. This isn't to say that I'm not disappointed in some ways with Obama.

I'm not surprised though at all that you want to blame our problems on Obama. What else would you do?

marcus says

I'm not surprised though at all that you want to blame our problems on Obama. What else would you do?

I'm not blaming all the problems on Obama. There are legitimate gripes with both parties there. Obama is no innocent lamb.

Travis Bickle says

ALL lies matter - especially from our elected public servants . .

Name one elected official other than maybe Ron Paul who hasn't lied while in office or running for office. Oh, and I'm including using money from superpacs to run deceitful ads through third parties. Getting others to tell your lies for you is still lying.

A lie that results in the death of a million people and countless suffering is a hell of a lot worse than telling your girlfriend that her butt doesn't look big. It's the consequences not the action that matter.

FortWayne says

I don't think she is qualified for the position. She means well, but good intentions alone isn't good enough. Obamas administration had good intentions, and miserably failed out of sheer incompetence, like Carte

Obama has failed because he simply continued and expanded upon the policies of the previous administration. There is no difference between Obama and Bush in policy. The only difference is which team they play for, and both teams are owned by corrupt corporations.

My understanding is that Carter failed because Congress made him impotent. Now I'm too young to remember the Carter administration, so I'm basing that understanding on what I've read and what I've listen to other people saying.

Elizabeth Warren is highly qualified to become president. Remember, when the country was founded, the presidents weren't career politicians and that was a good thing.

Warren was a professor of law at Harvard. That's pretty top notch credentials. She's done original research into the decline of the middle class and living standards in America over the past 40 years. She's got the brains and the experience in law and economics to make a difference.

Compare that to

- Obama, who is president only because he was picked by Harry Reid as the more likely than Hilary to defeat McCain. Other than that Obama was just a low-rank politician and bureaucrat.

- G.W. Bush, who was a failure at every job he was handed by his rich, president daddy, and was a druggie.

- G. Bush Sr., who was a plutocrat set up with political connections from his daddy.

- Reagan, who was a puppet for big corporations and a third rate actor.

Maybe Bill Clinton had a somewhat substantial resume before becoming president, but it wasn't any better than Warren's.

APOCALYPSEFUCK isFrank Sinatra says

Look, if she says she's Jesus Fucking Christ on a bicycle and she kicks the banksters in the face, who cares

Hell, Jesus on a bicycle killing banksters would convince me that atheism is wrong! I just got a visual...

Dan8267 says

Hell, they are all immoral asswipes with the exceptions of Ron Paul and possibly Jon Huntsman

Paul is a liar too. Don't believe the hype.

And Carter wasn't what the right, (the history re-writers) would have you believe.

The Republicans have benefited by a weird tautology. If the economy is bad under a Democrat, it was the Democrat's fault (no matter what the makeup of Congress was).

If it is bad under a Republican, and the preceding administration was a Democratic one, then it was the predecessor's fault.

If the first term (think: Reagan) was mired economically, it was the previous admin's fault. If the 2nd term starts to grow, then it was because it takes a whole term to feel the effects of the (R)'s policies.

Keep in mind that this has served them well since the 40s, since no Democrat had ever been reelected before Clinton.

And the best thing Clinton ever did for the D's was to be reelected. He got to crow about the economy, and it through the GOP of their meme.

FortWayne says

I don't think she is qualified for the position. She means well, but good intentions alone isn't good enough. Obamas administration had good intentions, and miserably failed out of sheer incompetence, like Carter.

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Yes, and we're already hearing the same complaints about Obama that we heard about Carter: the isolation, that he's aloof, that he's a micro manager, etc.

It's been over for two years.

FortWayne says

I don't think she is qualified for the position. She means well, but good intentions alone isn't good enough. Obamas administration had good intentions, and miserably failed out of sheer incompetence, like Carter.

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If she can't win in Mass, she should throw in the towel and go back to academia.

What exactly does the right-wing voter hate about Elizabeth Warren? I can understand what bankers and other financial parasites hate about her: she challenges their oligopolies. But what does the dirt poor, rank-in-file Republicans have against her?

The only thing I can think of is that she challenged the myth of the self-made made, which is religious dogma to right wingers, even though most of those self-made men made themselves by ruthlessly betraying others and fucking over their employees and customers.

Dan8267 says

What exactly does the right-wing voter hate about Elizabeth Warren? I can understand what bankers and other financial parasites hate about her: she challenges their oligopolies. But what does the dirt poor, rank-in-file Republicans have against her?

The only thing I can think of is that she challenged the myth of the self-made made, which is religious dogma to right wingers, even though most of those self-made men made themselves by ruthlessly betraying others and fucking over their employees and customers.

I don't hate her at all. I don't know much about her.

I will tell you that if she's trailing Scott Brown this early and has been trailing him for awhile in Massachusetts for a seat the Kennedy family controlled for fifty plus years, she's cooked.

Again, it's a campaign against her because they are afraid of what she represents--real reform. That means real money to the banksters (remember they killed her appointment to the bureau too).

And now she's not a Native American, and NR had that hit piece, and later retraction? Obviously, she's on their radar.

CL says

Again, it's a campaign against her because they are afraid of what she represents--real reform. That means real money to the banksters

Yes, to the bankers. But what about the rank-in-file dirt poor Republican Jesus freaks. What stick do they have up their ass about Warren?

Dan8267 says

CL says

Again, it's a campaign against her because they are afraid of what she represents--real reform. That means real money to the banksters

Yes, to the bankers. But what about the rank-in-file dirt poor Republican Jesus freaks. What stick do they have up their ass about Warren?

Is that rhetorical? They are easily lead, and ultimately rally around people even they feel are anathema. Hence, their newfound belief that Romney is preferable to Obama.

Real reason? He has an R next to his name, as Boosh did. Partisanship runs higher there than it does on the left.

Cloud says

Um, so vote for a bitch who lies about her background?

Go team, go, go team go, push'em back push'em back...waaaay back.

Hypocrites.

She didn't lie, and gained nothing from her heritage.

True story...

My Mom always told us, that my father(He never talked much to us kids) told her, that his grand mother was a Cherokee squaw.
I was never one of those people that ran around claiming to be 1/8th Indian or any portion of it for that matter, no more than I claim my "Welch" heritage from my mother's Higginbotham maiden name.

So my brother, the consummate penny pincher, recently has been researching our family tree, to find proof. Because he's trying to cash in on College grants for his daughter. Well guess what? That story we've been told our whole life was false, her last name was Horton, and her folks also came from Wales. (Go figure, I'm 100% Welch) 0% Indian.

My brother who also works in government, as 100% confident he was in our family history, as handed down my Mom the family Historian. Which got better every time she retold our roots. Knew better than to just act on hear say with out actually fact checking.

EW must either be dishonest or a moron. Perhaps she's had too much peyotee button soup from the real Pow Wow cook book.

Me, I like Estella Warren.

Now that stimulates my package.

Yep, Warren started by thinking that middle class people were just pissing their money away on jetskis - the opposite of the conclusion she came to after doing the research.

CaptainShuddup says

EW must either be dishonest or a moron

She must be...I mean, she is running with a (D) near her name?

Yawn.

Dan8267 says

What exactly does the right-wing voter hate about Elizabeth Warren?

How about her claiming intellectual founding of the OWS crackpot movement back when the MSM was still fawning on the dirty hippies? There is also a video of her shouting about how "no one in America makes it on our own" without government wiping our asses. Essentially arguing that nothing gets done in America without the our wise and altruistic betters in Government and Acadamia. Big turnoff to me at least.

Also got to call you out peddling the dumb as dirt "Bush lied about WMD's" meme. Do I need to post all of the quotes from Democrats and foreign leaders saying Saddam had WMD's?

Do you really believe that Bush would spend over a year trying to convince the country and the world to force Saddam out of power and really pick WMD's as one of the main reasons if he knew it was a lie all along? How hard would it have been to smuggle a few barrels of anthrax or other WMD's to cover the lie if you think Bush was such an evil war-monger?

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of liberating Iraq, but please stop with the stupid "Bush Lied" LIE.

Bush did lie. They dragged out any reason they could, hoping that the various sections of the public would agree that that one reason was justifying the campaign.

Saddam tried to kill Bush the Elder
Saddam paid Palestinians to suicide bomb in Gaza
They violated the UN agreements
They were going nucULAR
Saddam was a threat to Israel
Saddam had stockpiles of WMDs, mushroom clouds on the horizon
Saddam tried to acquire Uranium from Niger
Saddam was a dictator and "killed his own people"

So he was an existential threat to the entire world. Only he wasn't any of that. Arguably, the world was better off with him in power.

And why would OWS be a "crackpot" movement? We can show you logically why wealth concentration is bad for America and the world.

Anyone who has played by the rules will be offended by Elizabeth Warren's description of herself as a Native American in the law school directories. Non-minority, middle class applicants to graduate schools are typically picked apart by George W. Bush like imbeciles who gain admission based on connections, or "minorities" who gain admission with lower scores because of their "race." Ditto for the job market when affirmative action (i.e. acceptable racism) is flagrantly practiced.

Not only should Warren be ashamed of using this tenuous claim for career advancement, her bizarre rationalization of the behavior indicates a very flawed charater.

Yes politicians suck, and here is another example of an overachieving psychopath who will say anything to get ahead.

Blurtman says

Not only should Warren be ashamed of using this tenuous claim for career advancement, her bizarre rationalization of the behavior indicates a very flawed charater.

Expound? How has she advanced because of it? And what has she done worthy of being called a "psychopath"?

Travis Bickle says

ALL lies matter - especially from our elected public servants . .

Now whose living in a UTOPIA of their own making.

If all lies matter, then name a SINGLE president that has never told a lie. Not everything in the world is black and white. There are shades of grey.

And to write off Warren for a few inconsequential lies is absolutely moronic.

If everyone lies.. then voting in the person with the fewest lies and least damaging lies.. is the only logical way to go.

Anyone in here live in Mass like me? ok

"1. There is no evidence whatsoever that Warren lied about her background. In fact, no one is denying that she isn't descendent from Native Americans. If a single one of her ancestors was a Native American, then her claim is true and had that ancestor not existed or reproduced, she would not be here."

It IS hypocritical to suggest that she worked her way up to being at Harvard if she had affirmative action programs help her obtain the position and tenure. She said that she said she was native american to meet others and yet there are native american events EVERY DAY where she was and there is no record of her attending a single event! So why did she put it down?
If everyone was to take what their great great great grandparents were and put it down heck we'd have practically monarchies in this country. Even if you believe in affirmative action exactly how far can we go back on this? There are no pure white,black, hispanic, asians anymore. Besides eventually that would lead to inbreeding!

"2. Whether or not Warren is descendant from Native Americans is irrelevant. She gained nothing from this claim, and it does not have anything to do with the policies and reforms she advocates."

Except for her advertisements that claimed that she did everything on her own. Are you aware of the affirmative action cases involving firefighting in Boston? Basically this is pretty touchy around here since this case happened. Here's a link with the details

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/08/26/judge_tells_city_to_hire_four_white_firefighters/

"3. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and thus caused the deaths of approximately one million people. Some lies matter. Even if Warren had lied about being descendant from Native Americans, it did not result in any deaths. Yet, neither of you are bitching about the lies told by Bush and Cheney; lies that lead to mass death and destruction as well as pissing on the Constitution."

That's really not the point. It isn't about bush. I think you can make a better argument than this.

"4. It is ridiculous to attack her character on this trumped up issue especially when you don't attack the character of the Republican candidates Romney, Newt, Santorum. Hell, they are all immoral asswipes with the exceptions of Ron Paul and possibly Jon Huntsman. Newt left his dying wife and had affairs. Romney and Santorum are gay bashers. Rick Perry murdered an innocent man, literally. Where's your outrage on that?"

Again not relevant.

"Even if Warren lied about being descendant from Native Americans -- which there is no evidence of -- then that's still a very weak basis for attacking her especially in comparison to the mountains of lies told by all politicians on both sides of the aisle. As such, this seems to be a case where people are outraged not because of the alleged lie, but because they don't like her policies and are grasping at straws to find something to be outraged about."

Well she's a prop for the bankers. The consumer protection board is a power grab. It is housed in the federal reserve and funded by them. It is exempt from foia and sunshine laws.

She had an event at my university..here's a few bits

1) Security was uber tight. Rumor has it she's afraid of urban areas (read..black people). She won't really campaign in Brockton, New Bedford, Fall River, Lawrence, Springfield or Worcester. She's banking on liberal votes in suburban to rural areas.

2) She REFUSES to be referred to as a professor even though that's her title. Why you don't want to be called that is beyond me. She doesn't want to be seen as a academic..ok lady what did you do for the past 25 years then ?!? Sell Amway products?

3) She doesn't show up for her own debates..what? She hasn't won the primary yet because it doesn't take place until september. She's been called out on this a number of times. She's acting as if she's already won

4) She's not nearly as liberal as you might think. She's no Paul Wellstone or Bernie Sanders. She has no stance on the war on drugs, she has no real energy plan, she has no stance on foreign policy, she has no real stance on free trade etc
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Elizabeth_Warren.htm

I could care less about OWS..that's pointless here. But she has no experience in government at all. At least Brown has experience going back decades on the state level. I'm not saying I agree with him on everything but experience is a bit better just like I'd argue that we'd be in better shape with Hillary rather than Obama in office.

socal2 says

There is also a video of her shouting about how "no one in America makes it on our own" without government wiping our asses.

I've seen the video, that's not what she said. She said that everyone who has made it only had the opportunity to do so because of all the benefits that society afforded them through police, fire protection, sewer systems, highways, an electric grid, and all the other public infrastructure that we all take for granted but is necessary to "make it" financially. And she was absolutely correct in that.

I would go even further and say that in order to become a billionaire, you have to exploit the labor of other people. No one produces a billion dollars of wealth on their own. That's b.s.

socal2 says

Also got to call you out peddling the dumb as dirt "Bush lied about WMD's" meme.

Bush's lies to start an unjust war are not a "meme". A meme doesn't kill a million men, women, and children.

As for the dumb ass democrats who fell for Bush's lie, they are dumb asses. But far more republicans than democrats voted for the war, and you can't wash that stink off of your party.

And I hope that everyone notice that the worst thing you've brought up about the democrats is that they agreed with the republicans during the Bush administration. That's pretty sad, but accurate.

socal2 says

Do you really believe that Bush would spend over a year trying to convince the country and the world to force Saddam out of power and really pick WMD's as one of the main reasons if he knew it was a lie all along?

Fuck yes. In fact, the Manning memo proves that Bush had set a date for the war regardless of whether any WMD were found.

socal2 says

How hard would it have been to smuggle a few barrels of anthrax or other WMD's to cover the lie if you think Bush was such an evil war-monger?

Why fake evidence when fake evidence can be discredited. Evidently Bush didn't need to fake evidence to get his war or to get fools to support his war even after all the lies were revealed.

The bottom line is that anyone who sees no wrong doing in their party and no right doing in the other is a complete moron. I've gone on the record criticizing the left in details including criticizing Obama. If I've criticized the right even more, it's only because their bullshit costs more lives and is more batshit crazy.

All I'm seeing from the "conservatives" on this site, is the same partisan bullshit, our guys do no wrong and your guys do no right. I see that even when Obama does exactly what the republicans have asked for. However, here's your chance to prove me wrong, socal2. All you have to do is name ten ways in which G.W. Bush majorly sucked ass as president. If you can't do that, then your opinion means nothing. Bush has made it easy to find faults in presidency. And I've already done this with Obama.

So, socal2, prove that your not just a partisan bullshitter by naming ten ways in which G.W. Bush majorly sucked ass.

mdovell says

It IS hypocritical to suggest that she worked her way up to being at Harvard if she had affirmative action programs help her obtain the position and tenure.

1. Warren did not create Affirmative Action.
2. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren even benefited from Affirmative Action.
3. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren prevented someone else from benefiting from Affirmative Action.
4. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren lied or in any way exaggerated or misrepresented the truth.
5. There is evidence that Warren's claim is true.

Genealogist Chris Child traced Warren’s Native American ancestry to her great-great-great grandmother, who was listed on a 1894 marriage license as Cherokee.

And quite frankly, that marriage license is more than reasonable evidence to cause a person to believe that he or she is descendant from Native Americans.

6. Just because Warren is white and blonde doesn't mean that all her ancestors were white. If anything, this just proves that Affirmative Action is silly.
7. The silliness of Affirmative Action is not Warren's fault.
8. If a republican were the subject of this made up scandal, not a single conservative would give it credit and you all would be calling this a liberal bullshit attempt to distract from the real issues. And so would I.
9. Warrens research on the decline of the middle class alone proves her competence and ability.

mdovell says

She said that she said she was native american to meet others and yet there are native american events EVERY DAY where she was and there is no record of her attending a single event! So why did she put it down?

Dude, she was raised with the story of her Native American ancestor. She had accepted it as a fact since she was a child. During the three seconds it takes to check a box on a form, she probably didn't analyze the situation and just thought "well I am descendent from Native Americans, maybe it would be fun to meet others" and then never thought about it again. This is very believable.

Again, the evidence shows that her claim is valid, and even if it wasn't, even if it were simply a mistake, it would not be a lie. But again, the evidence shows it's not even a mistake. This is clearly conservatives trying to character assassinate a threat to their power.

mdovell says

Except for her advertisements that claimed that she did everything on her own.

Comparing Warren to Romney, Bush, or any other successful republican is a joke. Bush's dad was president. Bush's granddad was a senator. The whole Bush family is a plutocracy. Romney is no better. His dad was the CEO of General Motors. He's so freaking out of touch with the common man that he said that although he didn't know much about NASCAR, some of his best friends owned NASCAR teams. That was his way of relating to the common man.

In contrast, Elizabeth Warren is certainly a self-made person. And yet she still doesn't take on the republican "I've got mine, fuck you" attitude.

mdovell says

That's really not the point. It isn't about bush. I think you can make a better argument than this.

If you're going to bitch and moan about a truthful statement that even if it were a lie -- which it isn't -- it would have been an unimportant one, and you did not bitch and moan about the lies the Bush administration told which caused massive deaths, torture, and human rights violations, then you are being a hypocrite, plain and simple.

The only people who are bitching about Warren are Bush supporters. It's again with the my team does no wrong, yours does no right. Except that in the case of the republicans, it's been true that their team has done no right since Nixon, and he's hardly a shining example. But at least he had SALT.

When the right is being so hypocritical, it's impossible to take their opinions seriously. You guys aren't even at the table because you're being ridiculous. You completely ignore all the horrific crap that your candidates do, and then you ignore the horrific crap that your opposition does because it’s the same thing that your team does. And then instead you go for fake controversies like Obama being Kenyan, Warren not being descendant from Native Americans, and other non-issue contrived controversies.

And it's not like the left doesn't give you real ammo to use. It's just that if you used that ammo, you'd have to hit some of your own guys and you refuse to do that.

mdovell says

The consumer protection board is a power grab.

The Consumer Protection Board was destroyed by republicans and their banker overlords. It was a good idea, but it was killed because Obama didn't have the balls to stand up to republicans, because he is one in all but skin tone and lapel.

In any case, Warren's feasibility as president has nothing to do with this trumped up charge of lying about her "race" to garner Affirmative Action support. But I have no problem with Warren not having a presidential platform yet, since she's not running for president. Actually, I care more about getting someone who understands the problems the middle class is having and is willing to do something to save the middle class than having a platform at all.

mdovell says

Are you aware of the affirmative action cases involving firefighting in Boston?

Yes. And when it occurred, I like Bill Maher, called it racism. The people who did best on the exams should get the jobs and promotions regardless of race, and that includes situations where whites do better than blacks. There was nothing whatsoever on the written exams that was racially prejudice. And firefighting is such an important job that to give the positions to the least qualified people not only is bigotry, but it also endangers the public.

There is no such thing as "reverse discrimination", there is only discrimination, and discrimination can be done against whites and males just as easily as blacks and females. And it is just as wrong.

However, none of this has anything to do with Elizabeth Warren.

CL says

Keep in mind that this has served them well since the 40s, since no Democrat had ever been reelected before Clinton.

This is dumb. If you cherry pick dates and ignore FDR, there were only two republicans to win re-election before Clinton.

Had JFK and RFK not been assassinated, it probably would have been democrats all through the 60s and 70s.

What you said is about the equivalent of saying "No Republican has been President since 2008".

Dan8267 says

1. Warren did not create Affirmative Action.
2. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren even benefited from Affirmative Action.
3. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren prevented someone else from benefiting from Affirmative Action.
4. There is no evidence to suggest that Warren lied or in any way exaggerated or misrepresented the truth.

I didn't say she created AA. No evidence? She was listed as minority professor based on this claim. How can anyone go back four or so generations to claim being a minority? If she qualified for minority status then that means she could have been taking the spot of someone who was a real minorityDan8267 says

And quite frankly, that marriage license is more than reasonable evidence to cause a person to believe that he or she is descendant from Native Americans.

6. Just because Warren is white and blonde doesn't mean that all her ancestors were white. If anything, this just proves that Affirmative Action is silly.
7. The silliness of Affirmative Action is not Warren's fault.
8. If a republican were the subject of this made up scandal, not a single conservative would give it credit and you all would be calling this a liberal bullshit attempt to distract from the real issues. And so would I.
9. Warrens research on the decline of the middle class alone proves her competence and ability.

Warren also said quoting her aunt that this ancestor had high cheekbones like all native americans do. Huh? So now she's making stereotypes
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/warren-my-grandfather-had-high-cheekbones-all-indians-do_643103.html

What if this ancestor was Jewish and she made some claim about Jews having the same phenotypes? Dan8267 says

Dude, she was raised with the story of her Native American ancestor. She had accepted it as a fact since she was a child. During the three seconds it takes to check a box on a form, she probably didn't analyze the situation and just thought "well I am descendent from Native Americans, maybe it would be fun to meet others" and then never thought about it again. This is very believable.

Again, the evidence shows that her claim is valid, and even if it wasn't, even if it were simply a mistake, it would not be a lie. But again, the evidence shows it's not even a mistake. This is clearly conservatives trying to character assassinate a threat to their power.

And as a child people accept Santa but should we invoke that as well?

Back in '04 the same was argued with Senator Kerry in that it was found out he really wasn't Irish but rather Czech and Jewish. Kohn was his real last name.
http://judaism.about.com/od/jewishgenealogy/a/jewpas_kerry.htm

The argument being is that you should know your background before you run for office. She should have known this was going to come up just like everything she has ever published or taught.

To note I used to get into some interesting conversations with a man from Venezuela (he left after Chavez came in). He claimed being Latino should include all latin based languages, not just Portuguese and Spanish. If everyone that was French, Italian and Romanian put down they were latino the whole concept would be screwed up. She should have never put it down as she knew it had significance or else they wouldn't have asked for it!Dan8267 says

Comparing Warren to Romney, Bush, or any other successful republican is a joke

True so why did you?Dan8267 says

In contrast, Elizabeth Warren is certainly a self-made person. And yet she still doesn't take on the republican "I've got mine, fuck you" attitude

And she doesn't show up for her debates even though they were announced months prior. If she doesn't win the primary she has no one to blame but herself. If she loses she would have to mount a independent bid about two months prior to the election which would require massive amounts of money. There have been debates with a empty chair representing Warren. You should never ignore the fact that primaries happen before general elections.

Since when is showing up so hard to do? Mass isn't the same size as CA. You can drive halfway across us in probably two hours.
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/02/elizabeth_warren_angers_democr.html

If she loves to talk about the issues then why not just show up for a debate? If this was republican debate the press would be all over it.Dan8267 says

The only people who are bitching about Warren are Bush supporters.

I wasn't a bush supporting and you making a poor argument to suggest so. Get back to the main topic and start making a logical discussion about the issues I brought up!Dan8267 says

The Consumer Protection Board was destroyed by republicans and their banker overlords.

OK that's fine. So why should Warren brag about creating it on her commercials. She cannot have it both ways. Either it does what she wanted it to do or it does not.

Her ads state in mass that she stood up against the banks...how? With what? She doesn't list anything.

She's not even middle class. She has a job where you cannot get fired (tenure). To what manner and what extent is is "middle class" to have a guaranteed job for life?

This isn't to slam the left. The sad thing is there ARE some decent democrats but they don't get the support. Democrats do this all the time. They support someone for being popular or cool rather than people that worked in communities, advanced opportunities or *gasp* created jobs.

Here's one that SHOULD have stayed in the race
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Khazei

He dropped out because Warren gets more national attention. Meanwhile this guy has had more management experience in one year then Warren has had in her whole life. He challenged other democrats not to take PAC money..well Warren did.

mdovell says

No evidence? She was listed as minority professor based on this claim.

Maybe being a woman counted as a minority.

Kevin says

CL says

Keep in mind that this has served them well since the 40s, since no Democrat had ever been reelected before Clinton.

This is dumb. If you cherry pick dates and ignore FDR, there were only two republicans to win re-election before Clinton.

Had JFK and RFK not been assassinated, it probably would have been democrats all through the 60s and 70s.

What you said is about the equivalent of saying "No Republican has been President since 2008".

Nixon was re-elected too (assuming you meant Ike and Reagan).

I don't think it's dumb, no. It doesn't matter if you agree, what matters is that POLITICALLY, the Republicans had been able to claim that a Democratic victory was an anomaly. That the country is right-center/right, and that Democrats only get elected when their side screws up.

(Even with Clinton, they rush to believe that Ross Perot threw it to him, or myriad other ways to de-legitimize Democratic Presidents).

When they overlay this myth on top of economic cycles and the tautology I presented, it allows them to blame all bad things on Ds, and all "good" things on the Rs.

As a political strategy this served them well until Clinton, although you can see their writhing under Obama.

mdovell says

I didn't say she created AA.

Nor did I say that you said that. However, I am pointing out that it is ridiculous to take out your dislike of Affirmative Action on Warren.

mdovell says

She was listed as minority professor based on this claim. How can anyone go back four or so generations to claim being a minority?

This history is part of why the response of Harvard and Elizabeth Warren to questions about her listing as a minority—a Native American—in faculty directories has been disappointing. Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who is running for Senate in Massachusetts against Scott Brown, has said that she is one thirty-second Cherokee—which, under tribal rules, could be enough—and there is apparently genealogical evidence to back her up.

- http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/05/elizabeth-warrens-native-american-question.html

Evidently yes according to tribal rules. But that's not the real issue, is it? Are you really upset that Warren was listed as a minority professor while being "mostly white" (as if that had any real meaning anyway)? Are you so much in favor of Affirmative Action that you think it must only apply to true dark skin minorities? I suspect that you loath AA even more than I do, and if that's true, than this whole Native American contrived controversy is just a red herring to distract from the real issues.

Here's how to tell if you are being sincere. Would you be as upset if your candidate of choice was the alleged liar? If not, then your not being sincere.

As for me, if Bush or Obama had lied about their ancestry, I wouldn't give a rat's ass, even if they did receive an Affirmative Action benefit -- which Warren didn't -- because it's a non-issue and there are plenty of important reasons to hate Bush and Obama just based on their actual policies.

mdovell says

Warren also said quoting her aunt that this ancestor had high cheekbones like all native americans do. Huh? So now she's making stereotypes

Jesus fucking Christ that's grasping at straws. A statement about inheriting a physical characteristic is in no fucking way racism or bigotry. Let me tell you a true, real life story. When I was working for a company that was helping law enforcement track down pedophiles on the Internet, one day my brilliant coding skills helped out one of the officers solve a perplexing problem. He said quote, "Bless your Irish heart" in gratitude. I was a bit surprised and responded, "Hey, I actually am part Irish" thinking that it was just a coincidence since we had just met. He then explained that he could tell by my physical appearance and sited very specific physical traits. And I look way the fuck more Italian than Irish. So, it just goes to show you that people can and do deduce ancestry based on physical traits. It's called forensics science and it can be scarily precise. It turns out you can also do this with accents and find out, not just what country someone is from, but even the very town.

mdovell says

What if this ancestor was Jewish and she made some claim about Jews having the same phenotypes?

Again, it's not racism to point out a truth. It is racism to speak derogatively of racial physical traits, but not to simply acknowledge physical differences. Suggesting that Warren is racist is utter bullshit. So don't even go there. There was nothing derogatory in her statements.

mdovell says

And as a child people accept Santa but should we invoke that as well?

That's a Straw Man argument. The argument I made is that unless Warren actually believed she was not descendant from Native Americans and claimed it anyway, it's not a lie. A lie is intentionally telling a falsehood. There is nothing unethical about being incorrect. So even if Warren was incorrect, but it was an honest mistake, there is nothing unethical about it.

Is that really so difficult for you to accept? It really seems that you have alternative reasons for wanting to see Warren fail, and that's no position to be in if you are attacking her ethics. It's like the makers of NutraSweet saying that Splenda is bad for you.

So be honest, aside from the Native American question, do you want to see her fail to be elected? If so, maybe you should address the reasons you don't want her elected instead of this trumped up fake controversy. That way, we can debate real issues with real impact on real people.

mdovell says

Back in '04 the same was argued with Senator Kerry in that it was found out he really wasn't Irish but rather Czech and Jewish. Kohn was his real last name.

Who cares? Warren is not Kerry. His actions have nothing to do with hers. His politics has nothing to do with hers. Don't make the election of Warren out to be a right vs. left issue. It's a middle class vs. bankers issue.

mdovell says

The argument being is that you should know your background before you run for office. She should have known this was going to come up just like everything she has ever published or taught.

1. Your ethnic background should not be an issue at all when running for public office. That's retarded and bigoted.
2. What exactly do you think she should have done before running for office to prepare for this complete non-issue?
3. There is no way that anyone can anticipate all the possible bullshit that might be flung at them when they run for office. The asshole marketers who create this bullshit have an unlimited supply of bullshit creating material. It's like The National Enquirer running stories about Obama having a gay affair with an alien that probed his ass while Dick Cheney shot and stuffed Bigfoot. There's some batshit crazy bullshit you can't anticipate, and you certainly can't prevent assholes from making shit like this up.

Case in point, My Gay Romp with John Travolta. Yeah, I sure Travolta could have prevented that article from being written.

mdovell says

She should have never put it down as she knew it had significance or else they wouldn't have asked for it!

No, there is absolutely no reason she should not have "put it down" since she honestly believes -- and probably correctly so given the marriage certificate -- that it was true.

You could make a case that no employment form or employer should ever ask such any questions about a person's racial background. And I would whole-heartedly agree with you if you did. But that means repealing Affirmative Action, which forces employers to ask this question. And I'd be all for repealing that law, and I suspect strongly that so would you, which means that you aren't really upset that Warren checked Native American in some stupid form decades ago.

In fact, promoting this trumped up controversy is no way to get rid of Affirmative Action. It actually strengthens the argument for AA by claiming that it's still needed by "real minorities".

Oh, and by the way, Affirmative Action does also help women in general as they are still and certainly were in the 1980s and 1990s considered a minority. And last I checked, Elizabeth Warren was a woman. And that alone would qualify her for preferential treatment under AA.

Kevin says

Comparing Warren to Romney, Bush, or any other successful republican is a joke

True so why did you?

Are your reading comprehension skills really that low? Obviously I was illustrating why Warren is not even comparable to liars like Romney and Bush.

mdovell says

And she doesn't show up for her debates even though they were announced months prior. If she doesn't win the primary she has no one to blame but herself. If she loses she would have to mount a independent bid about two months prior to the election which would require massive amounts of money. There have been debates with a empty chair representing Warren. You should never ignore the fact that primaries happen before general elections.

And all that might be true. All that might even be a deal killer for her electability. But it has nothing, absolutely nothing whatsoever, to do with the contrived controversy that Warren lied on an employment form to gain AA favoritism. If you want to make the point that there are material reasons to vote against Warren, then do so, but do not intertwine them with this utter bullshit about Warren's ethnic heritage.

If you want to debate the issues you mentioned in the above paragraph, I'm more than willing to do so, but not on this thread since it's a red herring regarding this thread's issue. Now, if you want to debate those other issues, I'll need to do research to first since I haven't heard of those complains before. And since I haven't heard of those complaints, I have absolutely no opinion regarding them. Only after I find out all the facts will I form an opinion, and for all I know, I'll agree with you about them. But those issues have nothing to do with the fake controversy presented by this thread, and thus have no bearing on this discussion.

mdovell says

The Consumer Protection Board was destroyed by republicans and their banker overlords.

OK that's fine. So why should Warren brag about creating it on her commercials. She cannot have it both ways.

Warren believes that the Consumer Protection Board still has value. I disagree. She's not having it both ways. I simply do not have as much confidence in the CPB as she does. I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't think that I am. I'd like to be wrong, but that's another matter. My assessment is that the CPB was dead on arrive since Warren wasn't allowed to be in charge of it because of republicans sucking the cocks of bankers, and because most of its power was stripped from the bill before voting, also because of bank cock sucking republicans.

However, Warren is under no obligation to agree with my assessments. We are different people with entirely different and distinct brains. I assure you that there are no neural pathways connecting her brain with mine.

Now I do give Warren credit for fighting against immense odds to reform banking. At least she's working her ass off to protect the middle class. I don't know of any other office seeker or holder who's even trying to help the middle class. And I use those the terms "office seeker" and "holder" because I don't even consider Warren to be a politician. If elected, I suspect she will be a policy maker, not a politician.

mdovell says

Her ads state in mass that she stood up against the banks...how? With what? She doesn't list anything.

Again, not relevant to the Native American question. But if you want to discuss all the things Warren has done to fight for the middle class, start a new thread. I'll enumerate all the ways in which she has done battle for us.

mdovell says

She's not even middle class. She has a job where you cannot get fired (tenure). To what manner and what extent is is "middle class" to have a guaranteed job for life?

You consider tenured professors to be rich? I can't even respond to that level of delusion.

And it doesn't even matter. You don't have to be middle class to fight for the middle class. Even Warren Buffet has been an advocate of the middle class and he was at least at one time the richest man in the world.

Hell, I advocate equality for homosexuals and I'm not gay, nor do I have any gay family members or friends that I know of. You don't have to be part of the group you are trying to protect. It's called empathy.

mdovell says

The sad thing is there ARE some decent democrats but they don't get the support. Democrats do this all the time.

True. I'd even go as far as saying that there are very few decent democrats and the majority democrats have willingly sacrificed, nay, betrayed the few decent ones like Anthony Wiener over stupid, contrived issues like sexting.

Of course, I'd also say that there are few, even fewer, decent republicans. Even worse, the evil that republicans do isn't in the same league, hell the same sport, as done by democrats. Democrats waste money, lie on their lazy asses, and reward cronies. Republican do all those things too, but far worse, they start wars in violation of international law, kill millions, torture, sexually humiliate people, dehumanize people, and trample on the most basic of human rights.

It's not that both sides are terrible, its that the republicans do evil on a whole different scary level. Before the big party switcharoo of the 1960s, it was the democrats doing the really evil things, but even back then it wasn't as bad as now.

thunderlips11 says

Maybe being a woman counted as a minority.

Completely true and valid.

CL says

Nixon was re-elected too

Also true. And despite being a crook and a racist, Nixon was still far better a president than Reagan or either Bush. At least Nixon had accomplishments like nuclear reduction and some environmental protections. I'm not a fan of the EPA, but at least that organization started out good under Nixon.

And despite being very much a hawk during the 1960s, Nixon did come to his senses and end the Vietnam War.

Finally, Nixon had the good sense to listen to Henry Kissinger, who was a very intelligent and knowledgeable person. Now there's a lot that I disagree with Kissinger with, particularly the viability of surviving a full out nuclear war, but he was a very smart individual and very adept to the particular time and cold war situation he served under.

Now if only Nixon was a scumbag, I could give him much higher praise. Still, at least he was just a typical political scumbag, which is gold compare to the shit we've seen over the past 12 years with Bush and Obama. Compared to all the evil that's happened in Washington during the first 12 years of the 21st century, Nixon's sins are minor.

CL says

(Even with Clinton, they rush to believe that Ross Perot threw it to him, or myriad other ways to de-legitimize Democratic Presidents).

I don't know if Ross Perot affected the actual outcome of the Clinton election, but he certainly was a spoiler to some extent. Still, I liked Ross Perot. I didn't agree with everything he said, but I never agree 100% with any politician. But I certainly like his platform more than any other in my memory including Clinton's.

Just a quick check on OnTheIssues.org to refresh my memory… And yes, Ross Perot has a lot in common with Ron Paul, who I also like to a large extent particularly in the area of civil rights and currency reform. So actually, Ross Perot would have been more of an anti-Clinton spoiler to me than an anti-Bush spoiler.

CL says

it allows them to blame all bad things on Ds, and all "good" things on the Rs.

So true.

CL says

As a political strategy this served them well until Clinton, although you can see their writhing under Obama.

The only good thing about Obama is that he pisses off the ultra-cons. And that would be good enough if it wasn't for his horrific record on human and civil rights. I could overlook his bad economic policies, but not the human and civil rights issues.

APOCALYPSEFUCK isFrank Sinatra says

Dan

This is an incredible visual interpretation of my fantasy.

Can you do the same with the Warren-Black radioactive mutant bankster eating kids?

Please?

AF

My artistic talents are quite limited, but here's my best shot.

Dan8267 says

Ron Paul, who I also like to a large extent particularly in the area of civil rights

You and Stormfront have something in common, then?

I like the idea of Ron Paul. I always like when Republicans criticize their own, and Paul did in spades during the Bush Administration. Still, he's a liar and a hypocrite. I think the Paulistas are generally blinded by his obvious defects.

Here and elsewhere you'll see idiotic sentences composed of words like"fiat" and "hyperinflation", "Von Mises" or "Hayek". It's an obvious sign that they've likely watched a Paul video on youtube, and they're probably the biggest blowhards in their soon-to-be irritated social circles.

Facts and nuance don't matter--just a few vocab words is all you need to make you feel smarter than those kids at school who ignored you and didn't pick you for their dodgeball team.

(You here doesn't equal Dan, but rather the Paul acolytes)

(I had a "not equal sign there--didn't appear)

CL says

Still, he's a liar and a hypocrite. I think the Paulistas are generally blinded by his obvious defects.

Ron Paul suffers from the same two fundamental flaws most libertarians do.

1. They don't understand game theory, and so they naively apply their philosophies.
2. They don't believe in the concept of public property including the environment.

On the second issue, I haven't seen hypocritical behavior in Ron Paul, myself. Of course, I haven't watched every single piece of Ron Paul video. But from the extensive videos I've seen, I'd say Ron Paul's flaw would be that he's too idealistic, not hypocritical. And those are pretty much mutually exclusive flaws, being polar opposites. He follows the simply philosophies he believes in even when it makes no sense to do so.