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In reply to the discussion: A hit and a miss from Senator Elizabeth Warren [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)39. No, it was this -
How could she remain focused solely on the middle class and banks with all the shit exploding around us daily? A President has to focus on the entire US and the World.
I think Warren is perfectly capable of appointing people to carry out her ideas while she focuses on the rest of the World, is all I'm saying.
I understand that she is valuable in the Senate. I also understand that the GOP is pretty much stopping everything they can, in Congress, so maybe a President can do more, who knows? Anyway, it does make me ponder how we are told Warren is just too valuable in Congress, but Obama evidently wasn't missed.
For someone who we are assured, on an hourly basis, it seems like, is certainly not running - the effort is being made to assert that she is too old, the RW smears about being part Indian are being repeated and linked to!, she is too valuable where she is, she may not be able to concentrate on the big picture, she signed a letter, every time she agrees with Hillary or Obama about is noted (by Hillary supporters) - why all the fuss?
I believe Warren supporters are not a personality driven bunch of folks - they love her ideas and want someone LIKE HER to vote for. So - not that you are doing this - demonizing or dismissing her really misses the point, and will not make Hillary any more palatable than she is right now.
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A President, I am told, can hire all kinds of people who then concentrate on individual issues
djean111
Oct 2014
#1
I think if she's president, then more progressive have a shot at her seat AND her cabinet!
cascadiance
Oct 2014
#14
I know that special elections are a problem sometimes, even in a blue state like Massachusetts
cascadiance
Oct 2014
#43
OMG! Did you see how these 2 reacted when they heard that krebscycle was pissed?
Major Hogwash
Oct 2014
#36
It's easy to complain. The view is very different looking out from the White House.
branford
Oct 2014
#33
Where you wrote "A hit and a miss..." did you mean to say "A swing and a miss..." ? nt
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#19
Elizabeth Warren: 'The President was the one who refused to throw CFPB under the bus'
Cha
Oct 2014
#22
"The one thing the Obama administration didn't do was pillory banks and financial institutions
rhett o rick
Oct 2014
#29
I'm familiar with her background, but she's done so little, well below her potential......
George II
Oct 2014
#45