Cheers for Warren at Conference Offer Peek at Democrats' Mind-Set

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DETROIT — Even before Senator Elizabeth Warren entered the grand ballroom of the Cobo Center here on Friday for a much-anticipated speech to hundreds of liberal activists, her admirers were handing out plastic boater hats, bumper stickers and lawn signs declaring, “Elizabeth Warren for President.”

Ms. Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has said repeatedly that she will not be a candidate in 2016. But her presence here at the annual Netroots Nation conference — and the absence of Hillary Rodham Clinton — offers a peek into the mind-set of the Democratic Party’s left wing.

Progressives like Mrs. Clinton (and think she can win). But they love Ms. Warren (even if they are not sure she can).

On Friday, as Ms. Warren made the rounds of Detroit — with a morning keynote address at the Netroots gathering, a midday fund-raiser for Representative Gary Peters, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, and an afternoon book-signing — they let the love flow.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/us/politics/cheers-for-warren-at-conference-offer-peek-at-democrats-mind-set-.html

[L0oniX]

1. K & R

[AtomicKitten]

2. "progressives like Mrs. Clinton ..."

um, no

[RiverLover]

3. That cracks me up.

In 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: “For goodness’ sake, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks.”

The attorney was Hillary Clinton....

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/14/hillary-clintons-corporatist-party/

So does ^^^^