Elizabeth Warren: "So here's my question ...

[Scuba]

[SomethingFishy]

1. Can we clone her?

Please?

K&R

[Phlem]

2. and install her in every democratic seat we have!

What a perfect day dream.

-p

[rhett o rick]

3. Wish we could get Clinton-Sachs to have that attitude. nm

[xxqqqzme]

4. Unfortunately, that is not

going to happen. Clintons were part of the DLC founding group. They LOVE corporate money.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

36. lol I don't know why, but it always seems like these questions are directed at Hillary.

Clinton-Sachs is brilliant.

[rhett o rick]

37. The middle class will not survive another 8 years of our government support of Wall Street.

How high does the poverty rate get before Democrats figure out that corporate bought Democrats will not save us?

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

39. Ooooo, I don't want to know the answer to that question. 20%? 30%?

[daleanime]

48. True, we can't.

[spin]

5. I would find it easier to support Elizabeth Warren for President than either Hillary or Joe Biden...

despite the fact that they have far more "experience" than she does.

[A Simple Game]

9. Not despite the fact, but because of the fact they have far more "experience" than she has. n/t

[spin]

10. I agree. That's why in my first post I put experienced inside italics. Perhaps I should have ....

included the thingy.

[A Simple Game]

11. No, I understood your meaning perfectly, I just wanted to elaborate on it. n/t

[spin]

13. That's fair. (n/t)

[7962]

35. Dont worry, it wont be Biden. And if it was, it would be a loss.

[yurbud]

49. He wouldn't be my choice, but I'm trying to think of a Republican he couldn't beat

[7962]

55. I think he'd beat himself if left alone long enough! Who knows what he'd say?

Not to mention his age will be an issue for some just as McCains was in 08, fair or not. But I doubt he'll run. If Hillary opts out, all bets are off!

[yurbud]

56. Hillary seems out of touch with the times. She's running as a Reagan Era DLC Dem...

Trying to prove she's tough on other countries and business friendly when that's not the kind of Democrat we want or need.

[7962]

57. True, but the polls show her beating the heck out of ANY republican.

So if she runs, thats who we'll get. But its early, you never know what will happen over 2 years

[yurbud]

58. she was supposed to have a lock on it last time too

[yurbud]

60. a lot of that is name recognition too.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

40. (apparently, she won't run) But I've heard it argued, and I agree...

Obama was brilliant for running after 2 years in the Senate, which is exactly where Warren will be. The argument goes that his opponents had no record on him to run against. Hillary, by contrast, has loads of baggage.

But the good news is, it sounds like Robert Reich may step up and rescue the Party, yet

[spin]

41. Robert Reich sounds like a very interesting potential candidate. (n/t)

[yurbud]

50. Reich and Warren (either first) would be a good combo

Progressive on the issues, but enough insider experience to know which buttons and levers make the machine work.

[spin]

52. I agree. One thing I feel we don't need ...

any more Clintons or Bushes in the White House.

After Bush the Younger, I developed an intense dislike of Presidential dynasties.

[yurbud]

53. I liked Bill at the time, but in retrospect, he went along cons and neoliberals far too much

With the advice (or orders) of Robert Rubin and the likes of Larry Summers, he paved the way for our economic destruction under Bush.

Hillary shows no signs of being more of an economic populist.

[spin]

51. self delete ...

[supercats]

6. Elizabeth Warren Is The Beacon Of Light

She could be 'the game changer' America needs. She could lead the charge to undo all the
corporatization that Reagan started some thirty years ago...We don't need yet another wall
street friend, like Hilary Clinton. Obama and Clinton are interchangeable.

[Zorra]

7. Senator Warren is a most stubborn and difficult woman.

She'd make a great Prez.

[rhett o rick]

8. It's that great. We dont need a populist party, we have Warren and Sanders. nm

[Cal33]

24. You can also throw in Grayson and a few others. There aren't that many of them,

are there?

[brooklynboy49]

43. Sadly, no

But if Warren or Sanders or Grayson runs, she or he has my vote. In fact, I'll vote for them many, many times using that rampant voter abuse thingy

[brooklynboy49]

44. I haven't had too many political idols in my life

In fact, I've only had two.

Barbara Jordan.

And now Elizabeth Warren.

[Bluenorthwest]

45. Extremely tasetful choices.

Jordan was an amazing person, my father loved her and taught me to do the same.

[brooklynboy49]

46. She was truly special

Not many days go by that I don't think of Barbara Jordan at least once. What a president she would have made.

[KoKo]

47. She was incredible.. Agree!

[Aerows]

12. EW knows how to make a point

She nailed it to the wall with that one.

[Chisox08]

14. Can we get 50 of her and 50 Bernie Sanders in the Senante

[Cleita]

27. That would be so awesome.

Then I could die happy.

[Aerows]

38. I wouldn't

I'd want a clone of 435 of her and Bernie sprinkled liberally throughout the House of Representatives.

[dotymed]

15. +1000 n/t

[Autumn]

16. Scuba, will you please cross post this in the Elizabeth Warren group?

rec

[Scuba]

17. Done. Thanks for the cue.

[allan01]

18. re:Elizabeth Warren: "So here's my question ...

love this woman

[Kurovski]

19. K&R.( NT)

[Enthusiast]

20. This woman should be President.

We certainly don't need another Wall Street ass kisser.

[Cal33]

25. If the Repubs. should win both houses of Congress in November, even

Elizabeth Warren wouldn't be able to do much of anything. Let's try
to make sure that that won't happen, shall we?

[Enthusiast]

26. I'm doing the best I can.

[red dog 1]

21. HUGE K&R....Thanks for posting.

"Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it...At least that's how I see it."

Elizabeth Warren

[redqueen]

22. K&R

[Demo_Chris]

23. rec

[stage left]

28. Warren and Sanders

We need more like them.

[wildbilln864]

29. Thank you again Mrs. Warren!

[colsohlibgal]

30. They Got Away With it

Not a surprise that the Obama team did almost nothing in response to massive classic financial fraud. Not only that but a lot of our money in the bailout went into $500 million dollar golden parachutes for CEOs presiding over this fraud. I think we wound up fining some firms 20 million or something like that, it's like fining most of us $20. That's it, no copious perp walks like we should have seen.

No shock because look at Obama's financial team. It was the first punch in the gut, the first clue that I and a lot of us had been hoodwinked in 2008, no change like we were promised, the same old in and out of Wall Street Rubin crowd that got us into this mess.

If people have not watched "Inside Job" I urge you to watch it, it explains this fraud and our corrupt system better than anything I've seen.

[dreamnightwind]

31. +1

And here we are looking a HRC POTUS bid squarely in the face, more of the same or even worse. Yet many here see fit to do nothing more than bash Republicans and those who are willing to point out the obvious captured state of our own party are framed as Republican enablers by many on DU.

How do we move forward in this context? Does the Democratic Party even ideologically represent an alternative to this? I see almost no evidence of it anymore. Warren and Grayson are close to the only exceptions, Sanders is no Dem so as awesome as he is, his existence hardly validates our party's ideology. In fact I'd argue the opposite side of that, our party is so owned by big monetary interests that Sanders doesn't really belong in it.

It's a shame, because it's a time where we really need a vital and ideologically sound Democratic Party to counter the overreach of the capitalists. Instead, we work hard to get "our people" elected and they immediately appoint the worst offenders of rigged capitalism to continue the economic slaughter. Turns out they are corporations, not people. Let's treat them as some invading alien life-form consuming the rest of us, and out them as such, it would be a start and a way to stigmatize the greed-heads.

[Scuba]

33. Well stated, thank you.

[L0oniX]

32. K & R ...too obvious to ignore.

[grahamhgreen]

34. They need a spanking. Is Obama man enough?

[elzenmahn]

42. K&R...

Too much common sense for the David Gregorys and the Fox Newses of the world...

We can use more of her, I agree.

[Laelth]

54. k&r for Elizabeth Warren. n/t

-Laelth

[woo me with science]

59. K&R