I don't understand why Elizabeth Warren is criticizing Obama now.

[Demit]

119. ? You started this thread around Warren's criticism of Obama.

I didn't miss that point at all.

But I think you missed mine—that the voting public respects a politician who firmly and forthrightly expresses what he or she thinks—in terms that are easy to understand, a gift Elizabeth Warren has had from the get go. She's not mealy-mouthed, she's not thinking Oh my god, I better not say this because the media might distort it! I'll say something else that's so anodyne it won't have any meaning! She's articulate, she knows how to communicate, and she's not afraid of what the Republicans think is ammunition. She fires it right back at them. Remember "Nevertheless, she persisted"?

We disagree, I guess. I'm not as worried as you are about Elizabeth Warren's approach to the issues we face. I certainly don't think it will depress Democratic turnout. But time will tell.