Sen. Warren says she’s not running for president

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37. In her new book, "A Fighting Chance," I understand that Elizabeth Warren was told by an unnamed

person from the Obama administration to be a "cheerleader."

That is a sexist, very offensive thing for anyone associated in any way with the Obama administration to have made.

Here is the Washington Post's review of Elizabeth Warren's "A Fighting Chance."

One sweltering day, 12-year-old Elizabeth comes upon her 50-year-old mother, sobbing and trying to squeeze into her best dress, scared but determined to apply for a job answering phones at Sears. When she finally gets it on, she turns to her daughter and says, “How do I look? Is it too tight?” Of course it is. But Warren does the right thing.

“I stood there, as tall as she was. I looked her right in the eye, and said: ‘You look great. Really,’ ” Warren writes, recalling it as the moment when, “I wasn’t a little girl anymore.”

It may have been the last time Warren pulled her punches. That’s certainly the case in this book, which mostly details her decades struggling against financial institutions that, in her view, are bent on picking every last penny from our pockets even if they destroy the country in the process — along with too many lapdog lawmakers who abetted their actions. As such, it is a political narrative first and an autobiography second. Yes, it tells how a self-described, daughter of a “maintenance man” attended college on a debate scholarship, went to law school and, one day while she was home caring for her two young children, received an unexpected call from Rutgers University asking her to teach a law course — immediately. The judge scheduled to teach never showed up; were his identity revealed, he might be the most hated man on Wall Street.

Such was the inauspicious beginning of a career that led to path-breaking research on bankruptcy while teaching law at the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard; her evolution as a financial watchdog for ordinary Americans, too many of whom were the victims of predatory banking practices; her role as the brains behind the creation of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; and, finally, her improbable election to the Senate from Massachusetts in 2012. The odds were against Warren in that hard-fought race not just because of former senator Scott Brown’s popularity, but because, as Rebecca Traister of the New York Times pointed out, the Bay State is not kind to women, having hanged more of them as witches during the 1600s (14) than it has sent to Congress in all the years since (five, including Warren).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fighting-chance-by-elizabeth-warren/2014/04/21/fb894b68-be9b-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

Elizabeth Warren, no matter what she says now, has a fighting chance to be president. She is an amazing woman with a story and political and moral positions far more compelling and courageous than Hillary Clinton.

I think, again, that Elizabeth Warren has a fighting chance to be president.

I would like to see her become president. I definitely want to see her run. And I would also like to see Bernie Sanders run.

We need to get the message out there that our financial sector has to be reformed and we need to curb the NSA spying and be much more open about what is going on with our national security sector. I don't think Warren is particularly interested in curbing the NSA or in being more open about national security (or at least not hiding embarrassing dust and details under that huge rug we call national security when in fact they are barely if at all related to our national security), but if we could get a better ethical standard in our financial and business sectors, the struggle to get Warren (or perhaps Sanders) on the podium in our presidential debates and quite possibly in the White House would be well worth it.

Hillary is more of the same. Elizabeth Warren would mean changing direction toward more economic fairness.