Elizabeth Warren Highlights Key Weakness in Clinton's Wall Street Donation Defense

[BigBearJohn]

Legislative agendas matter, but voters should also ask which presidential candidates they trust with the extraordinary power to choose who will fight on the front lines to enforce the laws. The next president can rebuild faith in our institutions by honoring the simple notion that nobody is above the law, but it will happen only if voters demand it.

Liam Miller, writer, thinker, musician, continues:

It is true, Obama passed strong Wall Street reform; but under his watch not a single Wall Street CEO has been prosecuted, and regulation has been lax. Do we believe Clinton might also pass strong laws? Maybe so; but Warren has proven that the laws are meaningless if they go unenforced. The real question is, would Clinton nominate strong regulators? If we judge her by Obama - as she has repeatedly insisted we should - we must conclude that she would not. In fact, Warren may just have revealed how those massive donations and speaking fees get repaid: by putting the foxes in charge of the hen house. (emphasis added)

By comparison, Bernie Sanders has never taken big money from any industry or individual; he has campaigned so successfully in part for that reason. Could we trust him to nominate strong regulators? Not just his current campaign, but everything about his career says we can without a doubt count on him to do so - as Warren knows well.

With her concluding question, Warren invites us to share her thinking process - and, with her report and her editorial, she provides us with the insights and facts to do so. She shows that we must look beyond the policy agenda to study the person, and decide who we trust. Warren still hasn't endorsed, but she has a way of telling us which candidate she supports. She, better than anyone else, understands the import of taking so much of Wall Street's money; and what it means that Sanders has never taken any from them, or from any other special interest.

The contrast truly could not be more pronounced, nor the potential impact more profound. Clinton's appeal to Obama's legislative record, in light of his administration's ineffective, lackluster enforcement, is in fact the case in point - just not the case she intended.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liam-miller/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton_b_9346302.html

[Baitball Blogger]

1. I am weary of Elizabeth Warren. She obviously just wants to be a thorn at Clinton's

side, but isn't really committed to changing anything, or she would have endorsed Bernie. In other words, she presents no threat to Hillary.