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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren Comes Down Hard Against Global Warming, Separates Herself From Hillary Clinton [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)"By all indications?" What indications? She's been carrying out the foreign policy of the POTUS these last several years. It's not her job to weigh in publicly with her own opinions, it's her job to carry water for the POTUS and execute HIS foreign policy.
I think that EW and HRC are closer on many issues than most people here want to admit or believe. I will, though, agree with you that the whole "popularity contest" aspect emanating from her fans does color their attitudes. They dearly want a "hen peck cat fight" where Elizabeth "beats up" Hillary, and pissy little articles like the one linked in the OP give them just what they need to get their blood boiling.
EW is a "new face" who is making waves in very particular ways, so people aren't looking too closely at the whole package (a package which is just fine and dandy with me, BTW--she's a superb Senator for the Bay State and she's told us she's completing her term, which her constituents, like myself, appreciate after enduring five new senators in the brief period since Ted died).
They did the same thing with President Obama, fell MADLY in love with the fresh face, the Hope, the Change, and became bitter and angry when he didn't feel the exact same way they did on each and every near-and-dear issue.
It's like a teen idol contest around here, with middle aged idols. All Warren has to do is start building her record, in time, she'll disappoint, and plenty of her fans will get all acerbic and nasty about her, and say "Awww, I knew it all along."
It's lather, rinse, repeat.