Elizabeth Warren, the fighter

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Elizabeth Warren is a freshman Senator from Massachusetts whom some Democrats are talking up as a Presidential candidate -- reason enough for Mark Strassmann to seek her out for some Questions-And Answers:

If you ask many progressives voters from Harlem to Hollywood, they'll say a woman should run for president in two years: Senator Elizabeth Warren.

The Massachusetts Democrat is both revered and reviled; her style is aggressive, and her message is economic populism ("Everyone who works hard and plays by the rule should have a real chance to get ahead.&quot , that Main Street is under siege by Wall Street.

"How can it be," she told Strassmann, "that if you're just big enough and you commit big enough crimes, that there's no one out there who wants to hold you accountable? This is the consequence, again, of too much concentration of money and power."

Warren has written a new book, her tenth: "A Fighting Chance" comes out this week. It's a plea for economic fairness, especially for America's beleaguered middle class, wrapped inside her life story.

"This is my life's work," she said. "For more than 25 years now I've been working on trying to sound the alarm on what's happening to America's middle class."

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[randys1]

1. If only she could win

who knows...then it would be very interesting to see what concessions she had to make to win...

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Are you thinking she'll promise Pete Peterson to

cut Social Security? That kind of stuff?

I doubt it.

[brooklynboy49]

3. Dig it

I don't claim to be an expert on people or politics, all I can say is I have a pretty good nose and an excellent track record. The latest example being our current president.

I'm not here to bash him, he's been far better than the alternatives. But I knew from day one we were in many ways getting smoke blown up our collective skirts. And we've gotten from him pretty much what I expected. Probably less.

Warren, however, is the real deal. Sure, she'd face obstacles, too. But she would fight the good fight and maybe even win a few. It would feel so good to see her name on a presidential ballot and would be the first time I enthusiastically voted for a presidential candidate since 1984. The only other time was the first time I voted, in 1972.

It's time to reverse the damage done by over 30 years of Reaganomics, helped in too far a part by our own. It's time for a radical candidate with a real chance to win. And that candidate (or non-candidate) is Elizabeth Warren.

(Bernie's actually my first choice, but, sadly, he's unelectable.)

[MannyGoldstein]

5. well said!

I basically agree, even if I'm originally from Manhattan and Queens.

[merrily]

4. All I will say at this early date is, I want a real primary, damn it.

First, the Democrats come up with Super Delegates, so that if primary voters choose a liberal, the party PTB can overrule all of primary season. Now, they've come up with the self fulfilling "foregone conclusion" propaganda, unanimously touting Hillary as the winner, with the help of all the party pundits and strategists on TV and radio and the MSNBC anchors.

I began noticing this in the early fall of 2012. I even saw all those "Tell Hillary you want her to run" things online that far back. (LOL, as if anyone had to persuade her?)

When that kind of coordination exists more than four years before a Presidential election, the workings of the Democratic Party certainly don't seem to me to be as democratic as I expect them to be. IMO, single candidate primaries are almost as bad as single candidate elections.

Just one example. Recently, Chris Matthews was giving Christie another well-deserved bashing. However, Matthews referred to Christie as the only one who could have given Hillary any trouble. Not the only one who could have given the next Democratic Presidential nominee any trouble, but the only one who could have given Hillary any trouble.

Who the fuck are Matthews and the rest of the propaganda team to spend three or more years brainwashing everyone to believe that Hillary is the inevitable nominee? Why are they the "deciders" now? And do they think no one notices those tactics?

I thought an advantage of registering as a Democrat was the privilege of choosing a nominee from a real field of qualified people. Not gesture of a vote, but a vote that actually means something.

When the democratic is back in the Democratic Party process, I'll get excited. For now, I want the brainwashing attempts to stop and my party to start acting democratic.