Be A Cheerleader, Obama Official Told Elizabeth Warren
The Young Turks · Published on Apr 20, 2014
"A new book authored by progressive icon Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reveals her insider accounts of her interactions with President Barack Obama and his staff. According to The Boston Globe, which obtained an early copy of the book A Fighting Chance, Warren reveals a series of interactions with Obama and his staff that were at times tense and, on one occasion, borderline sexist.
The Globe opens their review of the book by detailing a "tense conversation" that occurred between Obama and Warren in which the president attempted to convince then Harvard University professor Warren to help create an agency she had originally proposed, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Noah Rothman / MediaITE:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/elizabeth-warren-reveals-obama-advisors-sexist-comments-toward-her/
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- There's a lot of that going around......
...she thought that Capitalism was incompatible with human liberty.
- And I totally agree.
Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was incompatible with human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in Anarchism and Other Essays, "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade." She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."
The state – militarism, prison, voting, speech
Goldman viewed the state as essentially and inevitably a tool of control and domination. As a result, Goldman believed that voting was useless at best and dangerous at worst. Voting, she wrote, provided an illusion of participation while masking the true structures of decision-making. Instead, Goldman advocated targeted resistance in the form of strikes, protests, and "direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code".
We need change. This is the bottom line..
VOTE Elizabeth Warren for President 2016...
EW is speaking in Chicago on May 3rd...I have tickets and am SO looking forward to it. 
progressive credentials grow daily in my opinion.
I have been burned too many times by pretty words and hopeful speeches.
That is why that I support Senator Bernie Sanders so much. He has successfully navigated the slime (influence peddling) in
D.C. for so many years and kept his integrity and Progressive values while articulating them forcefully.
IMO, the only time that he stumbled was during the ACA vote. Senator Sanders felt (as most of us do) that the absence of universal
health care (or even "single payer"
at the "bargaining?" table was inexcusable and he had not promised his vote to
President Obama for the ACA. So, President Obama took him for a ride on Air Force One and had a "discussion" with him
where (I understand) promises were made if Senator Sanders would agree to support the ACA.
As far as I know, that was the only time that Sanders "fell for" or voted for a bill that he truly did not support. He felt
that the American people deserved to at least have universal (non-profit) health care at the bargaining table.
Senator Warren is proving that she too has the best interests of the majority of the American people in the forefront
of her decisions.
The "proof is in the pudding" as they say and thankfully Senator Warren is proving this daily. Thank you Elizabeth, we need you and more like you.
It is easy to say populist things but much harder to prove, by actions, that you really will fight for the 90% of us who are being manipulated and screwed.
I could have been much more succinct but I felt the need to explain why I feel this way..
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...but then I couldn't believe my eyes so I kept on reading.
- You're good. Really good.
