Views on Elizabeth Warren and why?

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  1. Alex Carver

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    I personally like her from what little I know about her, and I agree with her on most, if not all, major issues. I'm hoping she will run in the 2016 election.
     
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    She's right about the corporate stranglehold and influence on politics and about the problems with education funding. However, she's a moron for trying to raise the minimum wage to $22. Right ideas, but she seems to be economically illiterate.
     
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    Nowhere has she ever proposed to raise the hourly minimum wage to $22. She merely observed that, "If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour."

    She's a very bright lady that pisses off the corporate elite, but I don't believe she has any plan to run for the presidency.
     
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    She is a dilettante. Working for Harvard while opposing elitism just screams conviction.
     
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    She's clearly a Big Government liberal. Likes high taxes, believes in AGW, big spending, Harvard muckity muck. Lied about being a Native-American to obtain an opening at Harvard. She's the perfect leftist candidate because her politics and her sex will trump her integrity and her qualifications.
     
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    She'll be crushed by the Billary machine if she dares thinking about running in 2016, and liberal lapdogs will will go with a corporate elitist like Billary instead of a liberal like Warren.
     
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    Bossy will flatten Fauxcahontas.
     
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    She is perhaps the best example of the affirmative action "Peter Principle" (rising beyond one's actual competence) in modern politics/academia. ZERO accomplishments in the private sector, married into academia and then rode a double-whammy AA dose to the "top of her field." Any time she opens her mouth she reveals complete ignorance of pretty much anything she opines on. A Warren presidency would be a complete and total disaster for the country. That people in Mass elected her, together with keeping Teddy in office for so long, is just a testament to the poor judgment of the people in that state.
     
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    God that was well said lol
     
  10. Lil Mike

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    I find it interesting that there is zero outrage on the left for her taking an affirmative action slot by pretending to be Indian. Although a lot of the blame has to go to Harvard for giving her a position for a "woman of color." She has less color than the Antarctic ice sheet sliding it's way into the ocean.

    Her real crimes though is her faulty scholarship. She is either an incompetent or a liar. Either way, the left loves her.
     
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    She is the best, if she will run. I would vote for her without reservations.
     
  12. saintmichaeldefendthem

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    She really got my attention when she lied about being Native American. I have to wonder why so many white people want to be us. Go figure.
     
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    Well in her case she had figured out a way to scam Affirmative Action benefits by claiming to be Native American when she wasn't. I guess that she figured that even her fellow leftwingers would smell a rat had she claimed to have been Black or Brown-Hispanic.
     
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    Without Reservations! ROFLMAO!! Another Fauxahontis joke.
     
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    I am not seeing those famous high cheek bones which somehow magically transform her into a native-American. Her face looks like a nose is sinking into a pool of mush......with teeth.
     
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    She is just one of the new stock politicians every country is getting after the recent economic onslaught . Political developments in the US are moving at a snail's pace but they are still getting the vibes from Europe : Republicans decided to go full Le Pen while "populist" Democrats like Warren are lining up with the classic reluctant right. There is a big chance Hillary to be the last of her kind in a very lonely presidency .
     
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    Yes, wanting to regulate Wall Street's excesses.

    Wanting to insulate consumers from the "tricks and traps" of the financial services industry.

    We just can't have that, now can we!!!!!!!
     
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    It's not too hard to see where you get your "news" from if this is what got your attention.

    This, of course, is a hit piece.

    You weren't paying attention when she was talking about reigning in Wall Street or protecting consumers from credit card companies.

    But it's not surprising. Right wing talk radio and Fox Noise work FOR bankers and credit card companies.

    And the last thing that they want you to see is someone fighting for consumers.
     
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    That pained expression has become common among many female politicians. It's the high price paid for Botox injections.
     
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    She knows less than nothing about Wall Street, and as far as "reigning in" don't you mean "rain-dancing" in?

    God forbid people should pay their debts. We have, btw, a truly massive body of statutes and regulations going back to the early 60s and before (which Warren was not involved in) including the whole area of bankruptcy law designed to protect consumers from predatory lending, too massive in fact. The status quo is far too debtor friendly as it is, which leads directly to boom and bust spending cycles, enhances the effects of recessions for all of us. Thanks for that, Democrats and biggraftgov!

    A lie, or rather MSM do too with all the bank and credit ads TV and print media rely on.
     
  21. Lil Mike

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    To be fair, she had some sort of family "lore" that they had Indian blood, but even if it was true, it was something like 1/32nd, so in other words, not Indian. But there are a lot of white people (and black people as well) with family lore of Indian ancestry.

    Oh Fauxcahontas, lefties will still vote for you no matter how much of a fraud you are!
     
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    Ya know, it may be a stretch but I think it's actually possible to work at Harvard and not be a dilettante/elitist. I've known people who have actually had to take out student loans to go to Harvard. Can you imagine?
     
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    Look At Her From A New Angle.

    The cost of living in Massachusetts may indeed require a $22 minimum wage compared to Arkansas.

    And I would not hold it against her that she is at Harvard. It does lend academic recognition.

    Ms. Warren has spent years of her life fighting for Consumer Protections, just to be undone by Corprationist.
    Similar to Rand Paul, M.D. she will represent people over corporations.
    They both seek to reduce the influence of money on government.
    If one does not understand the difference between a Progressive and a Liberal, you will never understand her.
    The difference between a Liberal and a Progressive is "Economic Policy" !
    Similar to the Pauls, Roemer, Anderson, Harkin, Kucinich, monied interests do not like her.
    That counts as an endorsement to me. Observe how commentaries and editorials destroy these folks leaving us with Jeb Bush-Hillary Clinton choices. No Choice ! Same War. Same profits for the 1%!

    Many believe a union of Libertarians and Progressives is our way our of our Corporate Controlled Mess.
    If people can just drop their RepubloCratic Crap !
    Oh those Democrats !
    Oh those Republicans !
    Fluff differences of distraction. Same War, Interventions, Foreign Policies and Economic Policy too that doesn't work for us.



    Moi :oldman:
    Don't Be Distracted By The Fluff !
     
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    No, not really. College didn't cost me anything but beer money :nana:
     
  25. saintmichaeldefendthem

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    By that standard you'd think a majority of applicants for affirmative action would say they're Indian.
     

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