How Elizabeth Warren Helped Sanders Deflate Clinton's Massive Political Apparatus

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Clinton has failed Warren’s ‘money-in-politics’ litmus test — and now the Democratic Party is splitting in two.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-elizabeth-warren-helped-sanders-deflate-clintons-massive-political-apparatus

Several years before Bernie Sanders zoomed towards a virtual tie in national polls with Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren began the discussion about Wall Street's influence in American politics. Warren even declared in 2014 that a portion of President Obama's Omnibus bill "was written by Citigroup lobbyists." Few politicians have directly accused investment banks of writing U.S. laws.

The Massachusetts Senator was able to introduce the topic on a national stage, and even though Sanders has spent his entire career championing the same message, she succeeded in publicizing a sense of urgency. Warren paved the way for Bernie, and in doing so, helped the Sanders campaign undermine Hillary Clinton's enormous political machine; a monstrosity that benefits from the status quo. I explain why Bernie Sanders has already made Clinton's political machine implode in the following YouTube segment.

The Atlantic has a provocative piece by Conor Friedersdorf that all Americans should read titled "Hillary Helps a Bank — and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons." Let's just say the article gives some insight into why Hillary Clinton is paid millions for speaking engagements. If you haven't read Friedersdorf's article, then you won't know why there's so much desire to read Clinton's speech transcripts. Hillary Clinton's political machine, which runs on a peculiar form of "honest graft," as stated by Walter Russel Mead, has been undermined by a political revolution within the Democratic Party, and within American politics.

Nobody has been able to highlight why Bernie Sanders is needed by African Americans, Latinos, and all Democratic voters better than Tim Black in this powerful segment of Tim Black TV. Only Bernie Sanders has harnessed the full power of an electorate disgusted with politicians yet to disclose the transcripts of million dollar speeches. Nothing defines establishment politics better than a Democrat who takes money from the same interest that harm core constituencies of the Democratic Party.

Hillary Clinton has accepted campaign contributions from two major prison lobbyists, Wall Street, and the oil and gas industry, yet promises progressive stances against all these interests.

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[Kip Humphrey]

1. E.Warren is more to Bernie than just his John the Baptist: she nullifies the urgency of Hillary's

"1st woman president" argument. Elizabeth Warren is the alternate "1st woman president" standing on the sideline, suited up and ready to go for 2024 or sooner.

So, women below age 65 are free of that urgency and, therefore, free to vote for Bernie because of his message and because of his authenticity.

I submit to you that this is already in play.

[StevieM]

2. If anything I think it could be the other way around.

I'm supporting Hillary and hope she wins the nomination and the GE.

I like Sanders (as I did O'Malley) and would support him if he were our candidate for president.

But I don't think the American people are likely to elect someone as president who labels himself a socialist. (For the record, that's not why I am supporting Hillary).

I think it is more likely that the GOP wins the 2016 election, Elizabeth Warren wins the White House in 2020, and Sanders goes down in history as her John the Baptist.

Hopefully our nominee, whoever he or she is, will make this all moot by winning the 2016 election.

[Odin2005]

3. WARREN FOR VP!