Elizabeth Warren: "I created much of the intellectual foundation for what [OWS] do."

[sibelian]

Just to clear that up.

Now the main argument, I suppose, would be whether or not her self-assessment is accurate. Are there any DUers with a little more knowledge of Ms Warren than most who might wish to elaborate on her statement?

The Daily Beast article continues like this:

"Warren’s boast isn’t bluster: As a professor of commercial law at Harvard and the force behind Obama’s consumer-protection bureau, Warren has been one of the most articulate voices challenging the excesses of Wall Street."

[Raven]

1. Heaven forbid that a woman should tout her accomplishments...

Republican men have a corner on that and they are usually lying.

[NashVegas]

2. Who the Fuck Is Elizabeth Warren?

No, seriously.

I know a lot of people seem to think she's the Second Coming around here, but when I look at her resume and achievements, she looks like another hand-picked Democratic Party shepherd, trying to get in front of a movement that was happening regardless of anything she was doing, whose real leaders were way out in front to begin with.

Warren's boast is bullshit

[Indydem]

3. BINGO

Welcome to the real world.

[Stargazer99]

4. She is lot better than your "righties"

[NashVegas]

6. Which Righties Would Those Be?

Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel & Dimed 2001)

Marjorie Kelly (The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy 2001)

Kalle Lasn (Culture Jam 2000), and co-founder of Adbusters

Ellen Goodman?

Shall I keep going?

[Cassandra]

10. Ahem, she's been around a while.

As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America by Teresa A. Sullivan, Jay Lawrence Westbrook and Elizabeth Warren (Jan 1, 1999)

The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Westbrook (Sep 1, 2001)

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi (Aug 17, 2004)

[uponit7771]

9. That's IF she actually said that, some people believe ANYTHING our MSM says

[Fumesucker]

5. It doesn't matter whether it was correct or not..

It's something for the M$M to run with and paint Warren as an "elitist".

Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet except he never said that..

[NashVegas]

7. Gore's Remark Actually Had Some Basis In Reality

'“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” she says.'

Is the exact quote from the DB story. If she truly said that, herself (as opposed to being asked to disagree or agree with a statement of the author's), she's full of it.

[uponit7771]

8. Can we PLEASE have the WHOLE quote with the question, I have a notion she didn't say that

[JI7]

11. are people really this fucking stupid, i thought you only had this much stupid on the right

[jwirr]

12. She has also written many books such as "The Two-Income Trap".

She has earned the respect of many who have either read her or listened to her and I suspect OWS if full of that group.