The Campaign For America’s Future has a video of Elizabeth Warren speaking at The New Populism Conference last Thursday. The title of the email and web page was “Me? I’m fighting back.”
You can count on the fingers of two fingers the number of people who could run for President in 2016 who speak about these issues the way Elizabeth Warren does.
The person I count on the other finger is Bernie Sanders. In my judgment he is pretty passionate, but not as passionate as Elizabeth Warren and perhaps does not have as much first hand experience fighting the forces of evil that Elizabeth Warren has.
Has any other recent, progressive politician told you so eloquently about the importance of having this fight out in the open? It is not enough to fight with the opposition in secret to eke out some meager compromise. Win or lose, it is more important to get these issues in front of the public so that they can put their strength into the fight.
There is a certain other Democratic woman who seems to be all the rage for the 2016 Presidential campaign. She doesn’t hold a candle to Elizabeth Warren in this fight. (HC doesn’t even hold a matchstick to Elizabeth Warren.) Can you even imagine HC talking this way about accountability for the powerful that Elizabeth Warren talks about in this video?
Does HC really have a clue about how the middle-class has been pounded into submission as Elizabeth Warren so eloquently describes? She is married to the guy that did some of the pounding. “The end of welfare as we know it”, indeed. It was easy to see how this might work in a booming economy if we didn’t look too closely. When the inevitable crash came partially as a result of BC overturning the Glass-Steagall Act, it was obvious back then what would happen with “The end of welfare as we know it.”
Should we give the Clinton Dynasty another chance just as we did for the Bush Dynasty? If we had no one else to run, we could give it a try and hope for the best. In this case we have a far superior alternative. Why would we settle for a little less disaster, when there is a possibility of success?