To all those who think Elizabeth Warren too inexperienced in politics to take a leadership

[Cal33]

position, or couldn't possibly be tough enough, just look at the link below. She openly opposed
the White House's pick of another Wall Streeter for the Treasury Department. Obama is quite
well known for the numbers of them he has picked.

Has any old-timer Democratic congressman dared to do anything like this? Warren is always
for the little guy, and she isn't afraid of speaking her mind whenever she feels something amiss
is happening. We need more people like her. There are too many politicians of the other stripe
around. We are stifling and she is like a breath of much needed fresh air!

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/elizabeth_warren_slams_obama_pick_looks_to_keep_liberal_cred

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. who the hell here ever said that?

[Cal33]

2. Several. And please don't ask me to name them. I have a lousy memory for names. :}

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. Well that's completely stupid...

[brooklynite]

9. Then just provide a link...

I concur; I've seen nobody suggest she's inexperienced.

[Cal33]

11. I haven't found the recent post I read suggesting that Elizabeth Warren wasn't

experienced enough, so I looked up Google instead. Here's one link from Aug. 2014.



[I'll bet there are readers in this forum right now who are fans of Hillary, and who think
[I'll bet there are readers in this forum right now who are fans of Hillary, and who think
Elizabeth isn't experienced enough. I hope at least one of them would speak her/his
mind and say so on this thread].

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251373002

(The line below belongs to the beginning of the second paragraph. Somehow it just
doesn't show up when I edited it. Hope it shows up this way).

I'll bet there are readers in this forum right now who are fans of Hillary, and who think

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Academia is chock full of politics.

Faculty can be every bit as Machiavellian as anything they do in DC. She may not have a lot of experience with people who ONLY do politics, but she's probably had plenty of practice dealing with sharks and fighting for funding and projects while teaching.

[gwheezie]

5. I hope she runs

She said she isn't I'm voting for Hillary so far but I don't think Warren is disqualified from running due to experience. I don't know enough of her positions yet. I think if she enters the primaries I will have some clarification. Hillary I know she has run for pres before she has a voting record. I just don't know enough about Warren.

[Enrique]

6. she will be the best ever in that leadership position

also the worst ever, since they made it up to have something to give her.

[Cal33]

7. I've read that when she was in the Treasury Department, she didn't hesitate to speak her

mind to her seniors. She'll be the same person at her new job. She will fight for the
average American, and hopefully she will put some spine into some of our other
Congressional leaders. That's the type of person she is.

[leanforward]

8. I'll go with anyone that's a Democrat

Either one will get my vote. I do like what I've heard from and about Warren, especially being for the "little guy". I think she's going to be shaking up a lot of corporatist in both parties. The Senate certainly wouldn't confirm her for the CFPB. But, we do need someone that can rally the masses. HRC already has a lot of support.

[demigoddess]

10. she's winning me over.

Though in the choice between a republican and a democrat, I will go for the democrat every time.

[CTyankee]

12. Oh, my reservation about EW is not that!

My qualm is that so few know anything about her outside of folks like us and the NE corridor. But if she got a really good campaign strategy to spread her message all around the country, I think she'd win and be one helluva president!

[Cal33]

13. Sen. Warren is becoming more and more well-known. I hope the new position

will help her to become even more so -- and fast.

[CTyankee]

14. It will be a helluva reach, tho. So many people in the midwest and southwest don't trust

north easterners. Or don't know them.

[Cal33]

15. She was born and raised in Oklahoma, I believe. They ought to feel right at home with her.

[CTyankee]

16. well, "Harvard professor" is probably a big turnoff for lots of folks, too...

[Cal33]

17. You've got a point there. I've read that when 15-year-olds taking the PISA test here

were asked the question, Who were among the people they most admired, some
Hollywood celebrity or athlete superstar were most often mentioned. Whereas
in the Far East Asian countries, their 15-year-olds would most often mention
Einstein. This does seem to carry over into adult life, too.

[CTyankee]

18. Plus, you could say that EW deserted her Oklahoma roots never to return.

I got the same guff, only in spades, when I left my native Texas and went away to college and never went back to live there again...