Here is a video clip of Elizabeth Warren’s appearance on the Today show.

She starts out well with a terrific answer about where we were 4 years ago compared to where we are today.

I think she fell down a little at the end.

I know Elizabeth can get her point across much better than this. I have heard her do it in many other videos and in person.

As for Mitt Romney’s qualifications, the interviewer practically handed the words to Elizabeth, but she missed it.

“Mitt Romney is the type of person who broke the system. He is not qualified to fix it, because he wants to do more of what broke the system in the first place.”

This kind of lapse is what has me worried about how Elizabeth will do in debates.

The central point for Obama is that he has spent the last four years trying to fix what Mitt Romney broke, and Mitt Romney’s allies have blocked the road at every turn. I know there is the old drunkard’s cure of “The hair of the dog that bit you”, but I don’t think we want to risk the country on this remedy. Romney is not the man to fix what is wrong with the economy.

Where might we be today if Obama had gotten himself on TV every day saying, “Congress could fix the economy tomorrow. Just pass my jobs bill.” This should be a meme so deeply rooted in the public’s mind that the Republicans couldn’t make it go away. Instead, few in the public even know there is a jobs bill pending before Congress and they won’t even allow a vote on it, let alone passing it.

This graphic from the Obama campaign thanks the small donors that are keeping this campaign afloat.

Besides donating money, there are more things we should be doing. See my previous blog post Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression for some ideas.

Truthout has published the interview of Jane McAlevey by Laura Flanders titled Help Workers Connect the Dots to This Larger System of Oppression.

Jane McAlevey has a book coming out this fall from Verso called “Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.” I started by asking her to introduce herself, and then to talk about hell-raising in Wisconsin and the lessons the labor movement might draw from that experience, with relevance to the elections that loom just ahead of us.
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JM: I think the top lesson in our view is that there is not enough internal radical, political education taking place inside of America’s unions. If there was one thing we had to do differently, it’s actually trust that our rank and file can handle a lot of the information and that the rank and file will know what to do with real facts, real information, and what’s really happening.

The above video plays for me if I use Google Chrome, but I cannot get it to work for me in Firefox.

Jane McAlevey speaks rapidly, so you might also want to consult the transcript published in the article.

This is interview provides insights as to what we should be doing in our efforts to get Elizabeth Warren elected as Senator from Massachusetts. I am still working on learning how to do what Jane suggests.