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(317,976 posts)I am pissed coming from that Elizabeth Warren article "ignorantly" slamming the President. I thought at the time it sounded unknowledgeable of all the facts. Why would she do that?! Good timing, too.. right before Midterms. congratulations Elizabeth.
"I honestly believe that Senator Warren is a smart person. So I have no idea why she would say something like that. Did she not notice that President Obama implemented other structural changes to financial institutions via Dodd/Frank that most of Wall Street hates? Even naysayers like Paul Krugman have had to acknowledge that it has been more effective than they originally thought.
Did Senator Warren not notice the structural changes to student loans that President Obama got passed back in 2010? Or the fact that he endorsed her bill that includes further reforms?"
From your link, she..
"I'm growing increasingly weary of this notion that in order to be one of the "kewl kids," one must ignorantly criticize President Obama. Senator Warren would get my unqualified support if she would abandon that nonsense."
A comment at the link..
Allan BrauerOctober 12, 2014 at 7:02 PM
"Warren also had to educate Thomas Franks on the history of bankruptcy "reform" and what a bad deal it was for consumers. After he found out it was passed in 2005, he lost interest in it for some reason..."
From today on ABC..
Krugman: Obama a More Consequential POTUS Than Clinton
People who had this idea that Obama was going to bring a transformation of America, I thought were being naïve, Krugman told Karl this week. But, by God, we got health reform, and we got a significant financial reform. We are getting the environmental action
its not everything you would have wanted, but its more than anyone else has done for decades.
More.. including Vid..
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/10/paul-krugman-obama-a-more-consequential-president-than-clinton/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Thank you, she!