I can't get there tomorrow, but I can come on Thursday - By Elizabeth Warren

[JDPriestly]

40. Elizabeth Warrern has fire in her soul.

Poverty and inequality matter to her because she has felt what it is like to be poor and treated like -- well with the disrespect dealt to the poor just because they are struggling.

Obama had to deal with race, but he never had to deal with poverty. He was not extremely wealthy, but he was not poor.

The Dunhams then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Stanley found a better furniture store opportunity, and Madelyn started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960 and was promoted to be one of the first female bank vice presidents in 1970.[2] In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination.[14] Ann attended the University of Hawaii, and while attending a Russian language class, she met Barack Obama, Sr., a graduate student from Kenya. Stanley and Madelyn were unhappy about Ann's marriage to Obama, Sr., particularly after receiving a long, angry letter from his father who "didn't want the Obama blood sullied by a white woman."[8] The Dunhams adapted, however, as Madelyn was quoted as saying, "I am a little dubious of the things that people from foreign countries tell me."[15]

After Ann and Barack's marriage fell apart, the young Barack Obama, Jr. spent four years with his mother and stepfather in Jakarta, Indonesia. He returned to Honolulu at age ten to live with his maternal grandparents in the Makiki district of Honolulu and enrolled in the fifth grade at the Punahou School. The tuition fees for the prestigious preparatory school were paid with the aid of scholarships. Ann would later come back to Hawaii and pursue graduate studies; she eventually earned a PhD in anthropology and went on to be employed on development projects in Indonesia and around the world helping impoverished women obtain microfinance. When she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her Masters' fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States with his grandparents. Obama writes in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, stated: "I’d arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents: I could live with them and they'd leave me alone so long as I kept my trouble out of sight."[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyn_Dunham

In contrast, Elizabeth Warren's father sold carpets and then after becoming disabled worked as a maintenance man. Elizabeth Warren's mother worked at Sears. I think she answered phones. Read Elizabeth Warren's book and you will learn her story. It's very moving.