Elizabeth Warren Appreciation Thread

[Jack Rabbit]

Elizabeth Warren is America's Senator. At a time when it is difficult to find a politician in either party who doesn't have a price, Senator Warren has been steadfast in standing up against special interests to fight for common sense banking regulations and against trade deals that are so bad and undemocratic that they have to be kept secret from the public, unless we depend on Wikileaks.

Let's hear it for a Senator who knows her job is to stand up for the people.

[Autumn]

1. I'm first

Liz is going to town on this

[SamKnause]

2. I would like to add

Sherrod Brown

Alan Grayson

Bernie Sanders

[MissDeeds]

18. Agree!

[appalachiablue]

28. Same

[Thespian2]

68. Yep.

We should add them all!

[roguevalley]

70. here, here, sam.

[Duval]

99. Yes!! nt

[misterhighwasted]

3. When does she offiicially start her campaign for 2016?

Anxious for E Warren to begin attacking the RW fascists in the clown car.

[Autumn]

13. She's not running. When does the one officially running for 2016 start weighing in on these current

and important issues and events?

[BeanMusical]

19. Lol, great reply.

[Autumn]

20. My questin was serious. I think any Democrat running for President would be interested

in this and hold a strong opinion, or at the very least have one.

[BeanMusical]

50. I know and I agree.

The lol was because your reply was quite a punch.

[Autumn]

59. Her silence on this speaks volumes.

[Plucketeer]

95. Doesn't it tho!

She's as quiet about the latest kerfluffal as the broadcast networks - and we know why they're ignoring things.

[rhett o rick]

52. She is already attacking what she should be attacking. She is attacking programs, policies,

and institutions that are causing harm to the 99%. Attacking individual Repub Clowns is a distraction. nm

[fredamae]

4. I fully appreciate Warren

She has taken the responsibility to communicate the reality of bs in DC.

In all fairness, Bernie Sanders is also Americas Senator. He has also taken great responsibility in educating us all.

[cali]

5. actually, the title "America's Senator" was bestowed on Bernie

Years ago.

And fortunately, you are wrong. It's not all that hard to find good politicians. Off the top of my head, I could name you a couple dozen in Congress. It's not that i don't appreciate and admire her, I do. It's that thankfully she's not the only one. There should be many more,but let's not lionize or idolize any.

[JI7]

17. i thought it was robert byrd

[cali]

23. it comes from Thom Hartmann's Brunch with Bernie show

[appalachiablue]

30. It does. Thom also sometimes calls Mike Papantonio 'America's Lawyer'.

[cui bono]

47. Pap is amazing! Love listening to him, especially when he talks to Republicans.

[appalachiablue]

62. He's a real firebrand, we need more. And Pap's program title, 'Ring of Fire' is perfect!

[hifiguy]

6. K/R

One of the very few left who is a part of the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. I like her.

[NCarolinawoman]

8. Lioness of the senate!

[L0oniX]

12. Hear her roar!

[radiclib]

29. Ted got his seat back!

[appalachiablue]

31. That's good!

[Number23]

72. It's really lovely how no one felt the need to come in and take a huge, stupid dump in this thread

Serious props to a large group of DUers who were able to show a basic modicum of self control, a quality all too rare here. Serious props, indeed.

[sheshe2]

86. I love you.

No one will get it, me, yup, I do, Thanks.

[Andy823]

104. I agree

I respect here and Berni and I glad they both are in congress fighting for us.

[sabrina 1]

9. Now more than ever we need Senators like her and Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown

and Reps like Alan Grayson.

But all of them are going to be become targets for smear campaigns by the despicable, greedy Corporations who are unable to defend their vile practices when these good Dems do their jobs and speak out about them so they do what cowards do, they hire low life Think Tanks to prepare their stupid talking points, you know them when you see a whole of people speaking in 'smear talk', using the same words, same phrases over and over again.

The people need to rally around those who become targets of these smear campaigns, because they work. Unless we expose them every time we see them.

THEY don't represent us. SHE does, to this time let's bury their garbage in masses of support for those who speak for the people.

[Octafish]

10. KR17

Now that you mention her, Jack Rabbit, she is an unusual politician, one with integrity.

[L0oniX]

11. K & R

[zeemike]

14. My sig line says it all.

[RiverLover]

33. Mine too!

[calimary]

15. That is a GREAT meme - "America's Senator."

She really is. It fits. She's working and focusing most directly on issues that affect EVERYBODY across the country, not just in Massachusetts.

I'm glad we have our own firebrand on Capitol Hill! FINALLY!!!! How many do the bad guys have? Dozens - in both the House and Senate.

We can count ours on pretty much the fingers of one hand.

[seabeyond]

21. love warren. powerful and powerful voice. nt

[AzDar]

22. Elizabeth!!

[Curmudgeoness]

24. I usually don't participate in these appreciation threads,

but I think that Warren needs to be shown how important she is at this point in time. We need more people like her.

[Jack Rabbit]

34. That makes two of us

I don't usually start them.

[carolinayellowdog]

43. Three of us-- they're usually personality cult/Kewl Kids Klub exercises

But this one is well deserved, and deserves a rec

[sabrina 1]

89. She needs a huge amount of support right now. The smear campaign against her began a few

months ago. And we know how good they are at this. And now to have the President join those who tried, and failed, is just sad. To call that woman dishonest, did he think we would be influenced by that? He really is out of touch with the people who elected him.

[Logical]

25. I so bad wish she could debate Hillary. Let Hillary know where she is way off base. nt

[SusanCalvin]

51. Yep.

We need real debates. Much as I love Elizabeth, I think Bernie is our best hope for that.

[Logical]

63. Bernie would be amazing. He tells it like it is. nt

[winter is coming]

66. Unless the debate format were more useful than it usually is, it wouldn't matter.

Most political "debates" seem to be set up to be opportunities to regurgitate sound bites, rather than a true back-and-forth discussion.

[SusanCalvin]

93. Ain't that the sad truth? nt

[MannyGoldstein]

26. Oh Hell yes!!!

If cloning humans is ever perfected... she goes first.

[Enthusiast]

27. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

The entire nation should get behind her. Everyone knows the nation is mired in corruption from sea to shining sea. We have to get a good and honest person in office this time.

[dpatbrown]

46. AGREE

I totally agree with you. She can't be bought.

[pa28]

32. She doesn't back down. That's why we like her.

[appalachiablue]

65. But remember what LARRY told her, 'Insiders understand the one unbreakable rule, they

don't criticize other insiders'. Said to her by Summers in spring 2009 during the Bank Handout according to Senator Warren's memoir, 'A Fighting Chance'. My, that group is not pleased with her at all...

[jalan48]

35. Someone we can actually believe in.

[Martin Eden]

36. I'm with you Jack, and with Senator Warren!

I've admired your posts since I joined DU in 2002.

[ann---]

37. I'm with her on this

and am shocked that Obama is being so nasty to her.

[SMC22307]

40. He's unleashed his inner asshole... in a big way.

Too bad it's against those within his own party, and not against Republicans.

K&R for Warren, Brown, Sanders, Grayson, Lee and all the others calling for TPP sanity.

[bvar22]

38. DURec for Warren.

After 50years in the Corporate Wastelands, its wonderful to hear a DEMOCRAT again.

[appalachiablue]

103. That's the truth. A real Democrat! Sometimes I think we're going extinct-

And Libertarians rising, esp. under 40s. Hope this isn't the case.

[RiverLover]

39. Thanks Jack Rabbit! It's so GOOD to know so many of us are grateful for Warren & realize

how lucky we are to have her in Congress, walking the talk! Standing Up for People!!

[democrank]

41. Thank you, Elizabeth.

[WillyT]

42. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You Elizabeth !!!

[jwirr]

44. I am very thankful for her support of the people in the 99%.

[SoapBox]

45. Yup!

[blkmusclmachine]

48. Remember when Obama said he was "against" Citizens United???

I think he meant he was against citizens, united.

[cui bono]

49. Thankfully she is not afraid to speak truth to power.

Even if it makes them call her dishonest.

[cantbeserious]

53. K/R

eom

[rhett o rick]

54. She is changing the conversation whether she runs or not. She is a leader in the Populist Movement.

[nenagh]

55. K&R

[Grey]

56. K&R

[spike91nz]

57. Thank you for all your work

Thank you Sen Warren.

[RiverLover]

58. In case you've missed it, check out DU's 'Elizabeth Warren Group' forum~

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1265

[Jean Genie]

60. Brave lady

Give 'em hell, Liz! And thank you for standing up for those of us in the struggling, and ever shrinking, middle class.

[Utopian Leftist]

61. Warren rocks!

I am almost as old as Barack Obama and I cannot remember another nationally-spotlighted Senator who has been so outspoken for the economic interests of the 99 Percent, as Senator Warren has already proven to be. [Edited to add that I wrongly left out Bernie Sanders in that thought.]

The world desperately needs more leaders like her.

[Art_from_Ark]

88. Robert Kennedy as Senator was outspoken for the interests of the 99 Percent

But he was gunned down in 1968

[diabeticman]

64. Count me in.

[zappaman]

67. Love her! n/t

[lordsummerisle]

69. k&r

We need more of her ilk.

[840high]

71. k/r

[Auggie]

73. Kicked and recommended

[CTyankee]

74. Absolutely! Love Elizabeth!

[CTyankee]

75. I treasure her. She is my inspiration.

[Joe Turner]

76. I really wish that Elizabeth Warren runs for president

She would change the issues in this election to the ones that really matter while eliciting max pain to the republican challenger. The republican candidate would be forced to try to convince the public that despite their long history of working for the Wall street agenda, they really are populist and care about American jobs and health care. That would be highly entertaining.

[emulatorloo]

77. She's smart, tough, courageous. One of the Senate's best, one of the country's best

[Red Oak]

78. Senator Warren, please run for President!

Put me down as one that would like to see Senator Warren run for President.

I don't understand how, out of 350,000,000 people, we always seem to have so few that are deemed capable of running and winning the position of President. Barack Obama wasn't on this list, until he started winning primaries! Let's open it up a bit and get some primary action going. Hillary is way too "anointed" for my tastes. Let's let Bernie and Elizabeth and Hillary and others actually debate the direction the country should go. I would like to see that debate! If Hillary ended up winning after a strong primary performance - great! I doubt in a vibrant Democratic primary Hillary would end up winning, but that is just a personal opinion.

[democrat2thecore]

79. Love Elizabeth Warren!

Warren
Sanders
Brown

[Logical]

80. Kick! She is an amazing woman! nt

[NYC_SKP]

81. Whether or not she runs for president, she reminds us what the candidate SHOULD be like.

[Larkspur]

82. Senator Warren speaks for me on TPP and fast track and ...

about the banksters.

Obama sides with Wall Street and the banksters, who will profit handsomely off TPP. Warren knows what they are really like and is spoiling it for Obama, who wants a lucrative lifestyle like the Clintons have after he finishes his term as President, but Warren will still be around holding the government regulators accountable and challenging Wall Street.

And with the President bashing the Left and specifically her, Sen. Warren knows that she is under Obama's skin and is driving him and his Wall Street buddies nuts. She recently campaigned against one of his Wall Street nominees for a Treasury office and won. That must have pissed off Obama and Wall Street. I bet Obama wishes that he had fought for her nomination to the head of CFP Board, where he could have told her to STFU or resign. As Senator, she has more power to challenge him and a bigger pulpit from which to launch a Progressive attack on Wall Street and their lapdog centrist Democrats, like Obama.

[99Forever]

83. Oh yeah.

[a2liberal]

84. k&r (n/t)

[myrna minx]

85. Elizabeth Warren sounded the clarion call for economic reform *years* before she was a politician.

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In fact, it was her outrage about the great bank swindle that inspired me to work on overdrive to get out of my personal debt entanglements.

Prior to her educated Frontline outrage about the banksters, I thought I'd be in debt forever. I thought I would always be beholden to the likes of Citi etc - making my minimum payments...forever. We've now accepted that Modern "Middle Class" debt is as American as apple pie.

When she proffered that it was unconscionable that Americans accept a lifetime of debt, I saw a possibility of a debt free life, and constructed a way to claw my way out. I set up a time frame and after 4 years, I was able to pay it all off. Her outrage about fees and interest rates made me look at the totality of my situation. I'm fortunate to be able to do so, but *many* can't. She's there to inspire those who can and never thought they could pay off their crippling debt *and* protect those who can't.

There are many, many more who can't claw their way out, but I'm grateful to her for educating a minimum payment person drowning in debt by empowering her to not live by and futilely accepting bankster debt culture. I'm forever grateful to her for showing me a different future for myself - one that's not beholden to the big banks.

The fact that there are people here calling her a liar because she disagrees with the president about this "free trade" deal, makes me ill.

If I'm forced to choose - I'll stand with Elizabeth Warren - a tried and true economic populist.

[burrowowl]

87. She is a GREAT Champion

0f us the non-1%!!!!!

[Pooka Fey]

90. Thank you Senator Warren!

[midnight]

91. kick

[The Wizard]

92. k&r

[merrily]

94. Being from Massachusetts, I usually think of Warren and Markey as "my" Senators or "our" Senators,

meaning by "our," the people of Massachusetts. However, I do believe both of them try their best to represent the interests of Americans in general, as well the interests of Massachusetts in particular. (Markey is especially good on environment, as Kennedy was especially good on health centers and other affordable health care issues.)

Being America's Senator is a big job for any one or two or three people. So, the job for all of us is to get more Senators like Warren and Sanders elected and stop settling for excuses about why that can't possibly happen. Those excuses are simply falsehoods designed to get us to settle docilely.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12777036


Reject those excuses for what they are and get your own Warrens. While that is primarily your responsibility, Massachusetts is always happy to pitch in for leftists.

Meanwhile, if y'all want to glom onto one or more Senators that a really blue populace elects, I'll guess we in Massachusetts will just have to allow the rest of you to benefit from our resolve and our work. Sigh.



Notice: This entire post is sarcasm in style, but the sentiment about working to elect more Warrens is sincere and so is my offer to help.

[Jack Rabbit]

101. Well, merrily, I hope you don't mind if a kinda borrow Senator Warren now and then

I'm a California democrat (as well as a Democrat) and I have only one Senator. She is retiring rather than run for re-election in 2016.

My other Senator will be up fort re-election in 2018, and I hope she retires because, although she is a Democrat, she has let me down too often. She thinks the spy-on-everyone program is fine and dandy (unless the CIA is spying on the Senate) and that war is always an acceptable option to the problems of the world.

[merrily]

102. As I said, the post was sarcastic, except for certain parts. There is no reason that

California, which kept Boxer in office as long as she wanted to be, cannot elect another leftist Senator to replace her. Get involved!

I don't think DiFi was always this bad. If she wants to stay in office and sense a strong left, maybe she'll get the message.

Best wishes.

[raouldukelives]

96. K&R Thank you Senator Warren.

[Andy823]

97. Warren is a good Senator

We really do need more like her in congress.

[Duval]

98. Admiration and gratitude! nt

[Maineman]

100. She is a national treasure!