Elizabeth Warren May Not Be Ready to Run for President, but Her Book Is

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/179494/elizabeth-warren-may-not-be-ready-run-president-her-book


Elizabeth Warren, testifies before the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The measures of books written by politicians are never simply literary.

Books written by the women and men who might, maybe, just possibly run for president are invariably judged by electoral standards.

So it is that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s fine new book, A Fighting Chance, will be assessed both for its composition and for its potential to spark the popular uprising that might make a reasonably populist Democrat a contender for the presidency, the vice presidency or a top cabinet post in a next administration.

Warren says she is not running for president in the 2016 Democratic nomination contest that too many pundits have already decided will be won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—just as they had already decided the 2008 nomination fight for Clinton. Warren’s statements have been consistent in that regard. On the CBS Sunday Morning program this week, she was pressed repeatedly on the issue. “I’m not running for president,” Warren reiterated, cutting her interviewer off with a warning that “you can ask it lots of different ways” and still get the same answer.

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1. Great interview on Bill Weir last night

Bill Weir is Piers Morgan's replacement on CNN at 9 pm. I think he is marvelous and he knows how to do an interview without making the questions so long that the person giving the interview has no choice other than to answer "yes" or "no."

To some hosts, their favorite sound is that of their own voice...

Needless to say, Warren was great.