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The Young Turks · Published on Apr 20, 2014
"A new book authored by progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reveals her insider accounts of her interactions with President Barack Obama and his staff. According to The Boston Globe, which obtained an early copy of the book A Fighting Chance, Warren reveals a series of interactions with Obama and his staff that were at times tense and, on one occasion, borderline sexist.
The Globe opens their review of the book by detailing a "tense conversation" that occurred between Obama and Warren in which the president attempted to convince then Harvard University professor Warren to help create an agency she had originally proposed, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Noah Rothman / MediaITE:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/elizabeth-warren-reveals-obama-advisors-sexist-comments-toward-her/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)It's always TLDR, sort of, for me.
And I'm in my fucking 50s.
I guarantee you that young folks won't listen to him loving listening to himself talk.
Sorry to say, because I know the messages are important.
I couldn't agree more with you, I love TYT, but he goes on and on when he could say the same thing in half the time.
demwing
(16,916 posts)maybe some share it, maybe some don't - but if we can't pay attention for 5 damned minuets, we're fucked.
Fucked.
I hope that wasn't TL2R for the young folks...
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)That's when we are truly fucked.
In this day, 5 minutes is a long damn time.
If it can't be said in 30 seconds, then the speaker/writer isn't trying hard enough.
...
demwing
(16,916 posts)and sometimes the audience needs to be challenged
alp227
(32,065 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)doing a good job of being a so-called "cheerleader" on her own, as she has voted with the President on virtually every single bill thus far since being first elected. Plus, PBO even stumped for EW during her campaign!
It baffles me that there is this idea that there is such a huge rift between these two, even though they ultimately want the same agenda. They both have fought for higher top taxes, expanded access to health care, etc. And of course, they are both deeply loathed by the RW billionaire tycoons.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
elzenmahn
(904 posts)...that's all that our present corporate oligarchy will allow us to vote for for leaders.
Sellouts.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)"Joseph Stiglitz couldn't believe his ears. Here they were in the White House, with President Bill Clinton asking the chiefs of the US Treasury for guidance on the life and death of America's economy, when the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers turns to his boss, Secretary Robert Rubin, and says, "What would Goldman think of that?"
Huh?
Then, at another meeting, Summers said it again: What would Goldman think?"
http://www.gregpalast.com/larry-summers-goldman-sacked/
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...she thought that Capitalism was incompatible with human liberty.
- And I totally agree.
Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was incompatible with human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in Anarchism and Other Essays, "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade." She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."
The state militarism, prison, voting, speech
Goldman viewed the state as essentially and inevitably a tool of control and domination. As a result, Goldman believed that voting was useless at best and dangerous at worst. Voting, she wrote, provided an illusion of participation while masking the true structures of decision-making. Instead, Goldman advocated targeted resistance in the form of strikes, protests, and "direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code".
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)blue14u
(575 posts)We need change. This is the bottom line..
VOTE Elizabeth Warren for President 2016...
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)whathehell
(29,096 posts)EW is speaking in Chicago on May 3rd...I have tickets and am SO looking forward to it.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)I'm in my 50s and its the perfect length.
Cenk builds the proper amount of slow outrage and the time needed to portray all the pieces to the story. He actually said quite a lot in that short time and went through a few different confrontations. And it all ends with what we expected, its an "insider" bubble in Washington, for mostly all the Rs and Ds including Obama. Warren is a Warrior to release a book like this. I hope she never backs down. I'd love it if she gave Hillary a run for her money. The Clintons are as inside as they come. I'd pay to see Hillary taken on by Liz in a debate.
bonniebgood
(943 posts)politician or a tv head blowhard., he's a lawyer with a lawyer's delivery. We have fox noise for 45 sec. delivery.
my opinion. thanks cenk i will be buying her book.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)progressive credentials grow daily in my opinion.
I have been burned too many times by pretty words and hopeful speeches.
That is why that I support Senator Bernie Sanders so much. He has successfully navigated the slime (influence peddling) in
D.C. for so many years and kept his integrity and Progressive values while articulating them forcefully.
IMO, the only time that he stumbled was during the ACA vote. Senator Sanders felt (as most of us do) that the absence of universal
health care (or even "single payer" at the "bargaining?" table was inexcusable and he had not promised his vote to
President Obama for the ACA. So, President Obama took him for a ride on Air Force One and had a "discussion" with him
where (I understand) promises were made if Senator Sanders would agree to support the ACA.
As far as I know, that was the only time that Sanders "fell for" or voted for a bill that he truly did not support. He felt
that the American people deserved to at least have universal (non-profit) health care at the bargaining table.
Senator Warren is proving that she too has the best interests of the majority of the American people in the forefront
of her decisions.
The "proof is in the pudding" as they say and thankfully Senator Warren is proving this daily. Thank you Elizabeth, we need you and more like you.
It is easy to say populist things but much harder to prove, by actions, that you really will fight for the 90% of us who are being manipulated and screwed.
I could have been much more succinct but I felt the need to explain why I feel this way..
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ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)raindaddy
(1,370 posts)Just give it to us Cenk!!! Five whole minutes, who's got time for that? He could've condensed this down to a minute. He just wants the spotlight, and what a traitor, leaving MSNBC !!!
And Warren what the hell does she need to write a whole book for? Who's got time to read a book? No one reads books anymore!! Why didn't she just write an op-ed? Or even better a tweet?
Now what was it that Warren said about her meetings with the Obama administration? Oh, never mind!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...but then I couldn't believe my eyes so I kept on reading.
- You're good. Really good.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Ideally, we'd have a Sanders/Warren or Warren/Sanders ticket.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth