{"id":10409,"date":"2012-03-10T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10409"},"modified":"2012-03-10T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T14:34:41","slug":"democratic-darling-has-also-been-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/10\/democratic-darling-has-also-been-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic darling has also been critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this seems to be the week for the press to catch up to my blog.\u00a0 <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> came out with the story <a title=\"The Boston Globe Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2012\/03\/10\/warren_democratic_darling_has_also_been_democratic_critic\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Democratic darling has also been critic<\/strong><\/a>, subtitled &#8220;In book, Warren targeted key figures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her best-selling book, she charged that Senator Hillary Clinton abandoned her principles and supported a bankruptcy bill in exchange for campaign contributions. Warren accused Joe Biden, also a senator at the time, of selling out women. And she chided Patty Murray &#8211; the Washington senator who later helped recruit her into the race and is now leading the national effort to elect her &#8211; for wanting to shame bankrupt families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This mirrors my post back in December, <strong><a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/22\/elizabeth-warren-and-hillary-clinton-trade-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren And Hillary Clinton Trade Lessons<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The headline on the continuation of <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> story on an inside page says, &#8220;Warren book may help or hurt her run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This furthers the point that I have been making to the Warren campaign with zero success.\u00a0 You cannot change the fact that Elizabeth Warren has written several books.\u00a0 I think the books are a tremendous asset to her campaign and should be advertised by her campaign rather than hidden by them.\u00a0 If she doesn&#8217;t make a big deal of her books in a positive way, someone else will turn them into a negative.\u00a0 Why wait around for the inevitable?\u00a0 Why not get out in front of the curve?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many times the campaign will have to be hit over the head with these ideas before they finally wake up.\u00a0 One almosts suspects that this behavior of the campaign falls under the category <strong><a title=\"Other articles in this category\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/category\/greenbergs-laws\/greenbergs-law-of-counterproductive-behavior\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenberg&#8217;s Law of Counterproductive Behavior<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;If you see a behavior that seems to you to be counterproductive, perhaps you have misunderstood what the actor was trying to produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this seems to be the week for the press to catch up to my blog.\u00a0 The Boston Globe came out with the story Democratic darling has also been critic, subtitled &#8220;In book, Warren targeted key figures&#8221;. 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