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In reply to the discussion: GAME OVER, Warrenista Liberals! [View all]MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)I feel your pain.
I guess we won't know until she's in office, if that happens. In 2008 I favored Obama once the race narrowed to three candidates, but always with the caveat (I'm on record here at DU) that he was an unknown quantity. A few things that make me feel better about Warren:
1. When Obama was running, a good friend of mine who's almost always ends up being right even though he sounds nutty when he initially says stuff, told me that Obama was a prepackaged candidate from the banking community in concert with Dick Gephardt. Sounded crazy at the time, but now... In any case, he's very skeptical of Warren because he doesn't see how someone can become so poular unless they're dirty, but he's found nothing dirty after months of searching.
2. Warren actually got the CFPB started.
3. Warren's has a decade or two track record of writing about how the middle class is getting screwed.
4. Warren doesn't just speak in platitudes. She gets specific: when was the last time you took the big banks to court?
In the end, it's our country. I want it back. I think we should give it our best shot.