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Title: Elizabeth Warren: I will be a voice for working people
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URL Source: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/elizabet ... i-will-be-voice-working-people
Published: Mar 9, 2015
Author: Anna Brand
Post Date: 2015-03-09 20:11:06 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 5088
Comments: 36
For someone who has repeatedly denied plans to run for president, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren sure sounded like a potential 2016 candidate on Monday, when she talked about what she can personally do for the working class and for Washington. Speaking at the International Association of Firefighters Conference, Warren said she “will be a strong voice for working people across country,” adding “I will do it because it’s right.” Warren began with a shout-out to her state and applauded the firefighters in Boston, noting a “special kind of courage” it takes to put their lives on the line. She recognized two Boston firefighters who died on the job this year. Then, she quickly pivoted to put blame on the U.S. for not providing equipment, training and a larger force. This neglect isn’t just limited to fire departments, she pointed out, noting how “starving services” extends to roads, medical research and schools. “Why is there no money to make the country work?” Warren asked the group. She then responded, “I’ll tell you: The game is rigged … it’s getting worse day by day.” The senator has a solution for those problems: Elizabeth Warren. “So I’m here today to say this isn’t right, I’m here to say that our spending should align with our values … I can rail on about what’s wrong in Washington and I will rail on about what’s wrong in Washington,” Warren said. And she aligned herself with those in the room, adding, “I’m proud to be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with you fighting for hardworking families across this country.” Though Warren has taken no concrete steps to formalize a run, and has time and time again said it’s not on her agenda, she continues to garner support. Last month, New York’s Working Families Party joined the effort to draft the progressive senator, calling her ”the nation’s most powerful voice for working families fighting against a set of rules written by and for big banks.” “That’s the debate we want to see, and that’s why we’re urging Senator Warren to run for President,” the group’s director said.
Poster Comment: Elizabeth Warren is looking more and more like the best candidate in 2016.
The GOP doesn't have anybody on the horizon worth mentioning, and the Hildebeast Klinton has way too much baggage.
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
I think you're right - especially since Eugene V. Debs is no longer with us.
Another kook fabricating an illusion of righteousness and inspiration using contentless emotionally stirring rhetoric. The last I heard she made it into law school and then campaigned for office by claiming to be a real live American Indian minority member.
Elizabeth Warren: I will be a strong emotionally stirring voice for Elizabeth Warren...
Bernie Saunders keeps threatening to run. So there is still hope.
I think you're right - especially since Eugene V. Debs is no longer with us. Even better than Mickey Mouse??
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Exactly how?
This is your strongest "argument" against Warren. You guys are running scared like chicken.
Just another that was rewarded for being an ideological idiot.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Just what we need ;another 1st term Senator with no executive experience. I'll give Warren her dues. She speaks classical American populist pablum. Her solutions however are the same old tired failure policies we've seen from the progressives for a century . I can't wait for her to try to explain the disconnect between her own financial elitism (she's very much a 1%'er) and her anti-elite rhetoric;demonizing others who have achieved her financial success .
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.(Daniel Webster)
Too bad Gus Hall is deceased. He would have a shot after a Prez like Obola.
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." (1 Peter 1:23)
The ultimate hypocrisy in leftist elite politics. It's the "Plato's Republic" 'noble leader elite' meme. The left's leaders can be uber rich only as a selfless service to the masses. A lie of course.
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." (1 Peter 1:23)
Hah! I'd like to see a Democrat get elected with the votes of the working people. Their target group is the 92 million Americans NOT working, living parasitically off the government in one form or another.
During the Great Depression you would demand that the jobless are deprived of right to vote. In your world, mass unemployment and Depression was caused by an epidemics of laziness.
The Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve.
Yeah, a prominent Harvard professor dealing with financial law issues like bankrupcies and designing Consumer Financial Protection Bureauis is a stupid "elitist". But if your kid was just an undergraduate student there, you would be proud. Here comes your favored non-elitist role model:
Not at all. They have every right to vote for an increase in government welfare, paid for by an increase in taxes on those still working. Certainly you're a believer in giving to those in need by those with the ability to pay. I know Karl Marx is. But you bring up a good point. If the federal government continues to dole out money for specific welfare rather than for general welfare, then I think we should limit voting rights to taxpayers only. "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."
A Pole, like a few others that post here, are straight up socialist liberals. Fortunately for him, he shares enough common ground with some other agenda posters (like cop haters) that he can mask his platform behind them. Meguro was MASTER of that trick at LP.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
You do realize that the Dodd Frank law ,instead of eliminating 'too big to fail 'codified and institutionalized 'too big to fail' banks that will be impossible to break up ,and will be forever supported by tax payer $$$ to the tune of $83 billion subsidy to the biggest banks ...don't you ? I won't get into how she made it into Harvard ,that blonde hair /blue eyed Cherokee. Yeah having Ivy Leaguers running the country has worked out so well in the last 20 + years . I'll go by what Buckley said : "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.(Daniel Webster)
Socialist maybe, liberal rather not
Here you go again bringing your key "argument"
Your religion is a little wierd
From the Boston Globe : But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves. ▼ In addition, both Harvard’s guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a specific definition of Native American that Warren does not meet. The documents suggest for the first time that either Warren or a Harvard administrator classified her repeatedly as Native American in papers prepared for the government in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines. They raise further questions about Warren’s statements that she was unaware Harvard was promoting her as Native American. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/05/24/federal-documents-indicate-harvard- repeatedly-reported-elizabeth-warren-native- american/OZdiCFhjx5CCH3Es0sREHM/story.html
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.(Daniel Webster)
This is your strongest "argument" against Warren. You guys are running scared like chicken. It's a matter of conscience and integrity, something you wouldn't understand or be bound by. The woman has founded a lifetime career on exaggeration, evasion, and lies. I don't want her as president.
It's a matter of conscience and integrity, something you wouldn't understand or be bound by. The woman has founded a lifetime career on exaggeration, evasion, and lies. I don't want her as president. A Pole may not get the nuances of this for some Americans. Claiming ancestry to American natives can be seen as a positive cache - I guess being 100% Anglo- Saxon is undesirable these days - sort of like Hillary discovered she has Jewish relatives in her past or sort of like that Scicilian American actor who pretended he was an Indian after playing one for decades. Also, it brings up resentment for some whites who feel minorities are given a share of a shrinking pie at their expense. Outside of a DNA test, I don't know for sure but living in Oklahoma as her ancestors did means there is a very high likely hood her ancestry could include American Indians - that is not that big a deal - it is a big deal taken into the mix of American ethnic politics taboos - we forget how Indians were in some cases hated worse than blacks were and such biases live on generationaly. That does not mean they hate her because she is Indian but they may hate her for linking herself with Indians or with the hated minority preference programs.
I have a feeling that is what you are going with as an argument because you can't take on her ideology.
Imho, socislism and liberalism run hand in hand. But I give you huge props for admitting your faults.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
I have a feeling that is what you are going with as an argument because you can't take on her ideology. She expressed no concrete ideology in her speech. It's just another version of the concretely avoidant inspirational abstract babble of hope and change. The develped mind would perceive that immediately, then reject it it immediately as demogogery.
BS
RIM SHOT!
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
The only thing liberal/open-minded about socialists is their willingness to share YOUR wealth. Other than that,they come from one of either two sub-categories. Category 1: Fascists Category 2: Communists There is a lot of overlap,though. Generally speaking,they start out as young and idealistic communists,and then when they get older and have wealth other people want to share,they evolve into Facism. There is nothing the least bit open-minded about either.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Am I to understand both of you worked for the govt all your lives? Not exactly the private sector....
BS Spoken like a true kindergarten kid from a low class family. Now, can you stick out your tongue and go phuttttt and think it's a decisive intellectual refutation? You must have the genetic background of a clam, but with two legs. After a bout with you I can understand how the Kennedys, the Carters, the Bushs, the Clintons, and the Obamas got elected.
I understand your confusion,comrade. You are a parasite,and don't understand the concept of "work". Nor do you understand that sometimes in a free society people work for the government for a while,and then spend the rest of their working lives working in the private sector. BTW,while I have no doubt you consider being a professional soldier "working for the government" because of your communist/fascist background,in free societies we consider military service to be "working for the country and the people". Unlike the military in your "socialist "paradises",the military in free countries don't enforce laws and have no professional interactions with the civilian population. Get someone to explain the concept of "private sector" to you. Make sure you have medical help on standby because it's going to come as a shock to you.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
That little tidbit was brought up when he was Godwinson, needless to say he was a little perturbed.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Elizabeth Warren is looking more and more like the best candidate in 2016.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
(Edited)
Warren said she “will be a strong voice for working people across country,” adding “I will do it because it’s right.”
#3. To: Willie Green (#0)
(Edited)
Elizabeth Warren: I will be a voice for working people
#4. To: Rufus T Firefly (#1)
I think you're right - especially since Eugene V. Debs is no longer with us.
#5. To: Rufus T Firefly (#1)
Elizabeth Warren is looking more and more like the best candidate in 2016.
#6. To: Willie Green (#0)
Elizabeth Warren is looking more and more like the best candidate in 2016.
#7. To: Rufus T Firefly (#1)
#8. To: rlk (#2)
claiming to be a real live American Indian minority member
#9. To: Pridie.Nones (#6)
#10. To: rlk (#2)
#11. To: Willie Green (#0)
#12. To: TooConservative, tomder55 (#4)
Bernie Saunders keeps threatening to run. So there is still hope.
#13. To: tomder55 (#11)
I can't wait for her to try to explain the disconnect between her own financial elitism (she's very much a 1%'er) and her anti-elite rhetoric;demonizing others who have achieved her financial success .
#14. To: Willie Green (#0)
"Warren said she “will be a strong voice for working people across country"
#15. To: misterwhite (#14)
Hah! I'd like to see a Democrat get elected with the votes of the working people. Their target group is the 92 million Americans NOT working, living parasitically off the government in one form or another.
#16. To: A Pole (#15)
During the Great Depression you would demand that the jobless are deprived of right to vote.
#17. To: tomder55 (#11)
I can't wait for her to try to explain the disconnect between her own financial elitism
#18. To: A Pole (#15)
"During the Great Depression you would demand that the jobless are deprived of right to vote."
#19. To: misterwhite (#18)
Certainly you're a believer in giving to those in need by those with the ability to pay. I know Karl Marx is.
#20. To: A Pole redleghunter (#17)
Yeah, a prominent Harvard professor dealing with financial law issues like bankrupcies and designing Consumer Financial Protection Bureauis is a stupid "elitist". But if your kid was just an undergraduate student there, you would be proud.
#21. To: GrandIsland (#19)
#22. To: tomder55 (#20)
blonde hair /blue eyed Cherokee
#23. To: tomder55 (#20)
Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again.
#24. To: A Pole (#22)
(Edited)
Here you go again bringing your key "argument"
#25. To: A Pole (#8)
(Edited)
claiming to be a real live American Indian minority member
#26. To: rlk, A Pole (#25)
(Edited)
claiming to be a real live American Indian minority member This is your strongest "argument" against Warren. You guys are running scared like chicken.
#27. To: rlk, A Pole (#25)
It's a matter of conscience and integrity, something you wouldn't understand or be bound by. The woman has founded a lifetime career on exaggeration, evasion, and lies. I don't want her as president.
#28. To: A Pole (#21)
(Edited)
Socialist maybe, liberal rather not
#29. To: Pericles (#27)
(Edited)
It's a matter of conscience and integrity, something you wouldn't understand or be bound by. The woman has founded a lifetime career on exaggeration, evasion, and lies. I don't want her as president.
#30. To: rlk (#25)
It's a matter of conscience and integrity
#31. To: Rufus T Firefly (#1)
I think you're right - especially since Eugene V. Debs is no longer with us.
#32. To: GrandIsland (#28)
Imho, socislism and liberalism run hand in hand.
#33. To: sneakypete, GrandIsland (#32)
The only thing liberal/open-minded about socialists is their willingness to share YOUR wealth.
#34. To: A Pole (#30)
It's a matter of conscience and integrity
#35. To: Pericles (#33)
Am I to understand both of you worked for the govt all your lives?
#36. To: sneakypete (#35)
I understand your confusion,comrade. You are a parasite,and don't understand the concept of "work".
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