Elizabeth Warren Turns The IBM Stock Hit Job On Her Into A Total Fail

[Tx4obama]

During a recent appearance on Current TV, Elizabeth Warren used her ownership of IBM stock to prove once again why there is no comparison between her and Mitt Romney.

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When Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was asked about her stock holdings specifically IBM by Jennifer Granholm, she said, “The IBM stock, yes, we own it. I’ve owned it since, it was actually a pretty modest investment made thirty five years ago I think, and the money’s been reinvested. If I were in Congress, I’d sell it in a heartbeat. I don’t think people in Congress ought to own stock in companies where they can influence the outcomes. Other than that, my retirement funds are held in big mutual funds. There’s no way to influence the outcome of any part of that at least not that I know, but the heart of this is about what our public officials should be doing. I don’t think they ought to be trading on insider information, but more importantly, I don’t think they ought to be out there influencing potentially their own pocket books when they’re making decisions on behalf of the public.”

This question stemmed from a piece in HuffPo a few days ago that read more like a hit job on Elizabeth Warren than investigative journalism. Elizabeth Warren never said that she wasn’t rich, but that she wasn’t a wealthy individual with a big stock portfolio. Her statement was not in the same ballpark as Mitt Romney’s claims that he is unemployed too, or that he has feared losing his job.

It may come as a shock to some, but a person can have money, and still be a strong advocate for those who have less. The big “bombshell” of the HuffPo story was that Warren owns stock in IBM and is pretty wealthy herself. The difference between Elizabeth Warren and Mitt Romney is honesty. Warren directed stated that she owned the stock and said that she would sell it in a heartbeat. There was no evasiveness in her answer. There was no dodge.

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Full article (and video) here: http://www.politicususa.com/en/elizabeth-warren-ibm

[aquart]

1. Elizabeth Warren is a lady. Mitt Romney thinks he's a lord.

[Javaman]

13. Warren is a normal person. mitten's a sociopath. nt

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. Warren exudes class; Mitt exudes crass.

[Tunkamerica]

2. Does it bug anyone else this is used as a source and has a blatant "typo"?

"Warren directed stated that she owned... " With so many out of work, where are the editors/proofreaders? I get that it's a website, and we hold them to different standards, but ... since when was it okay to release stuff with such obvious errors?

[gateley]

3. You see that a lot these days. I think they just spellcheck pieces and don't actually

READ them anymore.

I used to proof copy in an ad agency and I went over each piece THREE times. Once to make sure it read right, and twice to check for typos and misspellings. (No spellcheck back then!) But you really need to read it. That jumped out at me, too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. I read that a lot of spell checking was outsourced, overnight.

which would explain the increasing number of idiom errors one sees in print.
Using "rein " in stead of "reign" etc.( my personal peeve).

[MADem]

10. I see more people using "reign" when "rein" is in fact called for.

As in "Mitt should rein in those absurd ideas!" and "Newt was given free rein to run his big fat mouth all day!"

If you are using "reign" you need to be talking about a king or queen.

http://www.beedictionary.com/common-errors/reign_vs_rein

[The Doctor.]

23. Oh my!

All these years and that has ducked my notice!

Thank you for posting this. I would never have known I was coronating people and even things left and right.

[thesquanderer]

11. spelling pet peeves

mine are: lead instead of led, and loose instead of lose, with an honorable mention to compliment instead of complement

[gateley]

19. Yes -- spellcheck would let these slip through since they're both spelled correctly. nt

[ashling]

5. Oh yeah? $10,000 bet?

$10,000?

[Tunkamerica]

8. ?

Romney's bet? I think your joke went over my head.

[abelenkpe]

20. YES!

I bugs me. And always question the credibility of the publisher.

[gateley]

4. Warren wants to help those less fortunate than she. Romney just wants to be POTUS. nt

[daleanime]

14. And cut his own taxes.

[JDPriestly]

7. Has Elizabeth Warren released her tax returns?

I support her strongly, and I think that would be a good idea because I'm sure she pays her fair share. Most of her ongoing income is probably earned through work, not through investments. She is/was a law professor at a leading Ivy League school. That probably pays pretty well. She also does other work and would have to pay income taxes on her earnings.

[geckosfeet]

12. Warren worked from a fairly humble childhood. rMoney was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.

She may be well off now, but that was not always so for her. Can't say the same rMoney.

on edit: typo

[INdemo]

15. I wish she was

running for President this year...but she should be the nominee in 2016 but then maybe by then free elections
will be a thing of the past...

[Skinner]

17. politicususa.com is not coming up for me.

It looks like their URL is just showing a generic placeholder. Is anyone else getting this?

http://www.politicususa.com

[Tx4obama]

21. It's working here for me.

http://www.politicususa.com/

[kemah]

18. Romney is making $54,000 per day not working just running for office.

That's the crux of the situation. Chris Matthews has it right, here is a man who was born rich, got richer with his daddy's connections, has set up a trust fund of $100 million dollars for his kids. How is he going to relate to the average Joe's problems. He sees the world from very different perspective. He just relates to his millionaire friends and puts up with the rest of us as just a chore want has to do to run for office.

[Utopian Leftist]

22. I love Elizabeth Warren

And I love this sentence: "Elizabeth Warren never said that she wasn’t rich . . ."

You know that we've got the M$M on the run whenever a politician has to defend being rich (eternal thanks to OWS). Along with the Stock Act (should it pass), we have the beginnings of a true discussion on the class warfare being conducted by the corporations.

[Major Hogwash]

24. She'll make a great Senator for the state of Massachusetts!!

No doubt about that.