Video: Elizabeth Warren definitively declares she is not running for President in 2016

[stevenleser]

These OPs and comments about a Warren run are a complete waste of time. In fact, if you watch the video, she rules out a run on either position of the national ticket.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. She knows what she wants. And it's not the Presidency, or Vice Presidency.

Go relax, everybody!

She is not running.

Period.

[Laelth]

36. You make a good point. She does know what she wants.

The thing about Elizabeth Warren, and what makes her refreshing, is that she doesn't care how she gets it. She wants economic justice--how she gets that is of little concern to her. If she felt that being President would be the best way to achieve her goals, she just might try.

This essay is particularly relevant:

The proper interpretation of Warren’s prodigious p.r. efforts, then, isn’t that she’s especially taken with the idea of media stardom. It’s that she is relentlessly, perhaps ruthlessly, maybe even a bit messianically, focused on advancing her policy agenda. Everything else is merely instrumental.

This is what the banking industry and its Republican allies (as well as internal opponents like Geithner) didn’t fully appreciate when they effectively killed Warren’s hopes of permanently heading the consumer agency in 2011. Anyone who knows Warren will tell you she had no particular ambition to be a senator. She decided that the Senate would suffice as a way to agitate for her issues only when Obama stiffed her for the CFPB job—an enormous disappointment after she spent months lining up support among banks. “It’s poetic justice. At end of the day, if the banking community hadn’t been so apoplectic, everyone could have decided it’s this little tiny agency, who really cares?” says Anita Dunn, Obama’s White House communications director in 2009. “Instead, she ends up as a senior senator from Massachusetts on the banking committee, blocking Larry at the Fed.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115509/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clintons-nightmare

Great essay, in case you haven't read it.



-Laelth

[Scuba]

2. I missed the part where she said she wouldn't run if drafted.

[stevenleser]

3. Lol!

[Scuba]

10. Did you really think she'd say 'yes'?

Of course she said "I'm not running." It certainly doesn't mean she won't change her mind.

The saddest part is that you and others seem to take glee in the fact that she said she won't run, when she would likely be a better President for the American People than any other potential candidate.

[stevenleser]

15. It means she isn't running. She didn't use wiggle room terminology

She didn't say "it's hard to imagine" she didn't say "as of now I have no plans" she said she is not running go find someone else.

People can be gleeful, sad, angry, or whatever other emotion you intend to impute to them, it doesn't matter.

SHE IS NOT RUNNING.

Period, end of discussion.

[Scuba]

27. You read a lot more into her statement than many. And it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind

Especially if the "Draft Elizabeth" movement gains steam.

I certainly understand why you don't want her though.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. In 2006, Obama was still denying any intention to run in '08.

Actually, I guess you can hear what you want to in that video. I didn't actually hear her say anything about "no circumstances." Just "I'm not running."

[stevenleser]

5. "Denying intent" is not equal to "I am not running"

Look, I get it, you would love it if she ran. She isn't running and she isn't going to run.

Heck I'm partially disappointed too. I was hoping she would agree to be Hillary's Vice Presidential pick to help excite progressives. She ruled that out too.

[Scuba]

12. No way can Hillary excite progressives, regardless of who she might pick for VP.

[stevenleser]

16. That's your opinion based on your own feelings only. Nt

[Scuba]

24. Yep, I'm the only one here. Yeah, that's it.

[stevenleser]

26. You can't speak for all or even most progressives. Nt

[Scuba]

28. And you don't speak for Elizabeth Warren.

[stevenleser]

29. Unlike you, I didn't claim to. She spoke for herself in a video

Funny how that works. You pretend to speak for millions, I posted a video of someone speaking for themselves.

You don't respect the agency and desires of a person you would like to run for president

[brooklynite]

34. So, you're saying that Warren is as much a political sellout as Obama is, right?

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Whisp]

6. I'm wondering what the earliest time to announce is on the record?

I think in 2008 the official announcements came in January and February, for Obama and Clinton anyway. I'm supposing the other 6 were around that time too or a bit later.

I don't think any candidate has officially announced this early in the game, ever, but I certainly could be wrong. So no matter who says what, at this point in time, none of that matters.

What they say starts mattering in January/February 2016 or thereabouts.

[stevenleser]

7. If a candidate says "I'm not running, go do something else" it matters

I agree, not having declared yet is no big deal. But if a candidate rules it out, they rule it out.

[hedda_foil]

19. Obama announced VERY early.

February 10, 2007. http://theobamadiary.com/2013/02/09/six-years-ago-barack-obama-announces-his-candidacy/

I've been following presidential politics since 1952 (I was seven and remember thinking that the Dems were much more interesting) and can't recall anyone announcing anywhere near that early.

[spanone]

8. thanks steve. pitting ms warren against ms clinton is totally counter productive

[longship]

9. Thank you, Senator.

I love Elizabeth Warren. I think that she will end up being a great US Senator. If people would only get off her case about running for president, maybe she could spend more of her considerable intellect and energies on achieving that goal instead of wasting her time talking about the fact that she has no aspirations of running for national office.

I suspect, however, that the Warren 2016 threads will continue unabated.

Do people understand that we need US Senators like her as much or more than we need somebody like her in the White House? Do people not understand the concept of three branches in our government?

[LaydeeBug]

11. so did Barack Obama back in 2006 or 7. nt

[stevenleser]

14. No, he didn't. Nt

[LaydeeBug]

23. YES, he did.

It's pretty effing concise and I watched it with my own eyes when it happened, and I quote:

MR. RUSSERT: So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?
SEN. OBAMA: I will not.


From January 26, 2006's MTP:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10909406/#.UoFxvqVR7Ro

[stevenleser]

25. You said 2006-2007. He declared in 2007. Nt

[LaydeeBug]

31. No. I said 2006 **OR** 2007, and he said he wasn't in 2006. YOU'RE WELCOME. nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. EW knows she can probably be more productive where she is. nt

[Union Scribe]

17. Why does that make some posters so pleased.

Hmm.

[William769]

18. She is a great lady.

Apparently she is doing what she wants to do. Good for her!

[stevenleser]

21. Exactly.

We'll put

[RagAss]

20. Watch while I yawn.

[stevenleser]

22. Folks, getting mad at me won't make Warren run. It won't change reality.

If she was your first choice, move on.

It's that simple.

[Demo_Chris]

32. Okay, but I will not move on to Hillary. nt

[NuclearDem]

41. Townhall.com, really?

[MannyGoldstein]

35. I *am* not running for President

Not *will* not.

So relax... your obsession with ruining the fun of those of us who want an FDR Democrat in the White House isn't at an end yet.

[bluedeathray]

37. Good! Now we can lockdown HRC and move on to the Senate...

*BULLSHIT*

[Douglas Carpenter]

38. I guess then progressives need to find another candidate they can coalesce around in 2016

Names and personalities are relatively unimportant - What matters is that there is at last one serious and viable candidate who will champion progressive issues and raise the progressive flag in 2016.

Here is one possibility - one I would actually prefer - Sen. Sanders indicates he would run if no one else were willing to champion the main progressive issues - If Sen. Warren is not running - then quite likely no will be championing progressive issues.

Sanders for President?: He says there's a 1 percent chance he'll run in 2016 - Video

Sanders for President?: He says there's a 1 percent chance he'll run in 2016 as a way to force the country's prospective leaders into a debate over the share of wealth going to America's top 1 percent. “I worry very much that those issues are not being discussed,” Sanders told WCAX-TV. "That is the most important domestic issue that we have got to talk about." Sanders cited a lack of jobs for young adults and a rising percentage of the country slipping into poverty, but said he'll only run if no one else is willing to champion those issues

WCAX-BUR (CBS) - Burlington, VT
Channel 3 News at Eleven

VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT:

http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=1660&DateTime=11%2F8%2F2013+11%3A01%3A07+PM&Term=%22Bernie+Sanders%22&PlayClip=TRUE

[Laelth]

39. If not Warren, then whom?

I have a thread on that subject, if you're interested, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024019912



-Laelth

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

40. Too bad. Hopefully, there will still be a liberal/progressive challenger to Hillary.

[tina tron]

42. still a year away

from the active campaign season, things could change

[NCTraveler]

43. While I would vote for her in the primary....

I would like to see her in a position where she can generate a great push towards fundamentally changing the structure of the economy. I don't think the Presidency is the place for that to occur.