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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:49 AM Oct 2012

this takes the cake re: Elizabeth Warren

Bloomberg Raises ‘Socialism’ Label in Discussing Warren

By JIM RUTENBERG

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has just started a new “super PAC,” did not reserve his strong words to President Obama and Mitt Romney during his 40-minute interview with The New York Times on Friday. Speaking at the uptown headquarters of his private foundation, he also discussed the Massachusetts Democrat running for the Senate, Elizabeth Warren, in the context of communism, his support for the man she is seeking to unseat, Senator Scott P. Brown, a Republican, and a range of other issues.

The Brown-Warren Race

“What I’ve tried to do is find liberal middle-of-the-road Republicans and Democrats. In the Senate, Scott Brown, who single-handedly stopped the right-to-carry bill. You can question whether he’s too conservative. You can question, in my mind, whether she’s God’s gift to regulation, close the banks and get rid of corporate profits, and we’d all bring socialism back, or the U.S.S.R.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/bloomberg-raises-socialism-label-in-discussing-warren



I wish she were a Socialist. But making that remark in this context is despicable.

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this takes the cake re: Elizabeth Warren (Original Post) amborin Oct 2012 OP
They see anyone who would dare put one constraint on Wall Street tblue Oct 2012 #1
I want to know what a politician is doing starting a super-pac?? Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2
They continue to use the word socialism even when they are enjoying the most free-range WCGreen Oct 2012 #3

tblue

(16,350 posts)
1. They see anyone who would dare put one constraint on Wall Street
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:57 AM
Oct 2012

as a rabid socialist/communist/Nazi/fascist. To them, it feels like persecution. I swear they have victim envy. The words I want to say to them can't be written here in mixed company.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. I want to know what a politician is doing starting a super-pac??
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:59 AM
Oct 2012

no self interest driving mickie ..................

WCGreen

(45,558 posts)
3. They continue to use the word socialism even when they are enjoying the most free-range
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 01:59 AM
Oct 2012

capitalism in the world outside of the USSR and China...

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