MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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It's May Day,,,You deserve to hear Liz Warren say "Man the barricades"...
By jollyroger on Thu, 05/01/2014 - 10:40pm |We cannot yet know if Liz Warren will run for President. That said, I will crawl over broken glass to help her do it if she will...
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My grand daughter-in-law came home from college yesterday with A Fighting Chance on a memory stick. We loaded in both our lap tops. I sat and read last night. It is well written in conversational style. You can imagine her talking to you about it. It is at a level that anyone can read it.
Well. I know she is very popular with women in college. They are sharing her e-book with each other.
You are not the only one who will crawl over glass to get her elected.
by trkingmomoe on Fri, 05/02/2014 - 4:54pm
I don't see Warren as a presidential candidate yet. She has many of the same problems I saw in Obama. Lack of foreign policy knowledge and government experience. She's also not a very good campaigner or debater. On the other hand she is decidedly liberal on domestic economic issues and seems much more willing to fight for her views than the compromiser in chief.
Because of her liberal views I'd vote for her in the primaries over Hillary even though I don't think she's ready for the job. Hillary is much more prepared to be president though much too much of a centralist than I'd like. I'd much rather see Warren as vice president given substantial influence in leading on economic issues. That would give her time to up her foreign policy chops.
I doubt that Hillary will pick her though as two women on the ticket might be seen as too much.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 05/02/2014 - 5:30pm
I get the idea Warren is still backing Hillary, and is probably quite realistic about her own chances, ignoring whether she's a better candidate with better fresher ideas.
The Hillary line about mannah from heaven probably applies to a number of Warren initiatives - with some she's been successful so far, but to expect voters will vote in an agenda of left-leaning clean-the-slate policy is seeing something in the public I haven't seen.
And yeah, a double-woman ticket is a great way to give Republicans a fighting chance, whatever idiots they put on the roster. (It should be remembered that McCain/Palin lost by only 7%, i.e. a 4% shift would have put an angry curmudgeon and a completely inexperienced clueless wonder in the White House)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/03/2014 - 1:24am
This is a bit tangential to your comment, inspired by it rather than a response to it.
And to be sure LW HAS achieved or helped to achieve some real and important things, like the Consumer Protection Agency. And she is a strong voice.
But here's my point: "Views," like words, are cheap. Anyone can have them. I had this discussion with many supporters of Jill Stein who kept telling me about her great positions (as opposed to Obama's). Sure, but EYE could have written those very same things and put them up on a Web site. So what?
JS's supporters were so gung-ho, I looked her up. She ran for office multiple times in the most liberal state in the union (arguably) and lost until she ran for the moral equivalent of "dog catcher." Okay, not quite, but close.
I think we pay too much attention to "views" and too little to the ability to get things done, especially in an extremely hostile, obstructive environment. As I recall, FDR wasn't "FDR" until he got into office. LBJ wasn't (the good) "LBJ" until he got into office, when the bad LBJ also emerged. Things change dramatically when a person gets into office.
Once Liz or Hillary gets into office, she will still have to deal with a rabid GOP House and maybe Senate telling her "No." What good will her having the right views do her then?
by Peter Schwartz on Thu, 05/08/2014 - 9:35am
Perhaps you have not been paying attention...Warren has proved unusually effective at using public opinion, even without a "bully pulpit" from which to speak. One can only anticipate enhanced success were she to operate from a position of responsibility. I think Moemoe's suggestion below points the way.
As for the repugnants, those we shall always have with us, unless you want to roll up the pest control officers rendered redundant by urban foraging into a repugnant control unit, but I believe that is frowned upon under several geneva conventions.
by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 1:32pm
by jollyroger on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 11:56pm
by jollyroger on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 11:57pm
Hillary could tap her for a high-profile cabinet post where her domestic ideas could really make a difference.
by Peter Schwartz on Thu, 05/08/2014 - 9:38am
Treasury?
by trkingmomoe on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 7:11am