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For Elizabeth Warren supporters, the key paragraph in the story headlined below is,
“But the biggest buy is saved for Massachusetts, where Crossroads has made Democrat Elizabeth Warren a top target of its 2012 election efforts. The group will spend $524,000 to undercut Warren in December.”
Here is a discussion you won’t find in the lame stream press.
I cannot figure out when this interview occurred. The introduction by Paul Jay mentions the passage by the Senate on Thursday, December 1, 2011. I was under the impression that the legislation is now sitting on the President’s desk waiting for veto or signature. Ray McGovern seems to be saying that it must first go through the House.
If, in fact, it still has to be approved by the House, then we have more time to put pressure on the President to carry out his promise to veto. Until we know the true deadline, it is best to act as if the deadline is today.
If this doesn’t get Wall Street’s attention, I don’t know what will.
The mortgage holders of vacant real estate could go from almost total loss to making at least some money by renting out the home. That they have not done so in three years is not demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit. If the Occupy movement has to show Wall Street how to be a true capitalist, then let them show the way.
Perhaps I too could claim to provide the intellectual basis for what the OWS movement does. See my June 12, 2011 post Solution to The Housing Market Crash for further details.
I just discovered the ideal replacement for President Obama.
The Obama giving this speech is the one I wish we had elected. This one really knows what the issues are. I bet he wouldn’t appoint the strongest representatives of Goldman Sachs to head all the top monetary and fiscal positions of his administration. I bet he wouldn’t let the major culprits go unprosecuted for three years. He wouldn’t let the regulatory agencies remain understaffed given the huge level of fraud that needed investigation and prosecution.
A guy like this would have been running around the country for the past three years rallying the masses to mobilize to fight the entrenched interests in Washington.
He missed it in this speech, but I bet in the next speech he would be urging movements like OWS to keep up the pressure. He would have noted how the tone of the debate is suddenly shifting in favor of the 99% since the occupations and demonstrations started. The very fact that the country is finally waking up to the idea of the 1% versus the 99% could not have been done without the citizens vigorously protesting.
If he had time, I bet he would have also mentioned that we are not going to waste another cent on trumped up wars. He wouldn’t ignore the evidence from the intelligence agencies so that as President he could lie to the public about some imagined threat that he knows does not really exist.
Maybe in the next speech he could mention that he would reverse the erosion of our civil rights by people who are using imaginary threats to terrorize us into acquiescence.
Where could we find a person like this who would act in office like the person who ran for that office?
I have just figured out the only way that this Obama could regain the credibility he has lost. This must be done before the election if he wants us to vote for him. He must fire everyone in his administration who ever worked for or cooperated with Goldman Sachs. He must show zero tolerance and no mercy for this connection. Anything less, and what he says are just empty words.
I might make an exception for anyone who was a Goldman Sachs whistle blower and helped put Goldman Sachs managers in prison. Oops, for those criteria to be met there would have had to be at least one prosecution and a conviction.
Licking my chops, It will be amusing to watch them eat their own.
I wonder if Lizzy’s Occupier friends will show up with their neck tattoos, ear gauges and unbathed carcasses. The Occupods want to know ‘ Will free food be available?’
As we all know it is her that is responsible for them when she stated ‘I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do, she said in the interview. I support what they do.
If that is an intellectual foundation for anything, it is disaster. We as a nation are doomed!
My response to that comment was:
I am so glad someone asked about the intellectual foundation that Elizabeth Warren provided to the Occupy movement.
Elizabeth Warren wrote a book, “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”
If you really wanted an answer to the question, you would devote the time to listen to her invited lecture on what is the lesson from the book. http://wp.me/peCeJ-172
I do not understand why the campaign doesn’t use this strong message to shoot down the Karl Rove meme. I suggested Warren acknowledge the OWS movement. The proviso was that there was going to be blowback, and you had to be prepared for it. Now that you have taken the bold step, you cannot retreat. You must use the blow back as a teachable moment.
The blowback will continue until you answer it forcefully. If some professional political advisor is holding Elizabeth back from making her case, that person ought to be fired.
If she is a bold person, and we like boldness, then you can’t retreat and be a wimp. Go for broke, or go home.
Please sign my petition by the end of the week before the United States government goes down this dark path.
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
veto the defense appropriations bill that allows the military to detain US citizens indefinitely.
The President has promised to veto the Defense Appropriations bill that would allow our military to pick up a US citizen on US soil and hold that person indefinitely without trial or right to counsel. This is the most important promise he has made. He should not negotiate with himself to talk himself out of keeping his promise.
If he keeps his promise I will vote for him in 2012. If he fails, I will not vote for him. As simple as that.
Do you know any people who think we shouldn’t tax the wealthy job creators and their great wealth because they earned their money through hard work? Could you do me a favor? Could you walk over to them, tap them on the head, and see if anybody is home?
If there is any sign of life there, could you drag them over to watch the CBS 60 Minutes video? I’d love to hear about their reaction.
Are there any Obama supporters who still feel that he is doing everything that he can? Maybe you can check for signs of life there, too.
I am frequently asked this sort of question. It is hard to explain to people how much she gets it.
At an Elizabeth Warren campaign house party, I mentioned a video that I have previously posted. I just reviewed that video, before sending the link to the person to whom I promised it.
After my review and after sending off the link, I thought of sending this also to some key people in the Elizabeth Warren campaign. Here is the explanation I sent along with the link:
This post shows the single most effective Elizabeth Warren video that I am aware of. I am totally surprised that this video is not featured on all of Warren’s web sites.
After watching this video again, I can honestly say to any middle-class person who asks me, “Does Elizabeth Warren get it?”, “Not only does she get it, she can explain things about your predicament that you don’t even get. Watching this video will open your eyes to things that are going on in your life that you felt but couldn’t fully explain before.”
How many politicians come by in a lifetime for which you can say that?
John McCain can obfuscate all he wants, but it would be nice if he could eventually just answer the question. The plain truth is that John McCain does support the indefinite detaining of American citizens with no trial and not even any formal charges brought before an impartial judge in a hearing that is open to the public. The open to the public is an essential feature of American jurisprudence so that we don’t have to just rely on the integrity of fallible judges. The public can see for themselves what is going on and can be their own judges as to whether justice is being done.
The irony of John McCain’s justification for his policy is that the policy in question played a major role in the release of terrorist suspects back into the wild so that they could commit more acts of violence against us. If there had been an actual case against these recidivists, then the ability to bring them to trial was ruined by the illegal methods used to capture and detain them. Our methods left us no choice but to release them because we could not face up to international scorn without our giving them a fair trial. Of course, even using the word recidivist presumes without proof that they were terrorists before they were captured and were not turned into terrorists by their experience in captivity.
Some people suffer through horrible experiences and take away the lesson that no human should have to go through that same experience. Others, like John McCain, seem to take the lesson that if it was done to me, I want to be able to do it to someone else that had nothing to do with the incident that involved me.
I pity poor John McCain, but why does he have to thrust his misery on the rest of us? Is this some sort of revenge for what he went through? I suppose I could actually understand, but not condone, that motivation. Understanding such a motive, I can feel guilty for being a citizen of a country that sent John McCain to his fate, and still reject the policy that would allow us to send other people to that same fate. See, lesson learned.
As for Rand Paul (and his father Ron Paul), they do have some philosophical points of view with which I can agree even though they also have points of view that I find to be poorly thought out and ultimately very destructive.
I discovered this video by seeing it on the Google+ page of Jos Duerinck.