{"id":9452,"date":"2011-12-29T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9452"},"modified":"2011-12-29T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T15:57:30","slug":"the-elizabeth-warren-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/29\/the-elizabeth-warren-train-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elizabeth Warren Train Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got another Elizabeth Warren campaign email.<\/p>\n<p>I responded to the initial part of the message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn 12\/29\/2011 10:03 AM, Mindy Myers, ElizabethWarren.com wrote:<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> It&#8217;s about fighting for middle-class families in Massachusetts and<br \/>\n> across our country who are getting hammered &#8212; and have been, year<br \/>\n> after year, now for a generation. It&#8217;s about leveling the playing<br \/>\n> field so that it&#8217;s not just the big banks and big corporations<br \/>\n> getting all the breaks from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I have given up waiting for Warren to start fighting. I am moving over to Marisa DeFranco who is not the type to back down when Karl Rove says boo.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to warn Kerry when the Swift Boat first came out and he tried to ignore it and me.  I have been warning the Warren campaign about the Rove attacks. They pose the same threat as the swift boat attacks did for Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Warren has much better ammunition to fight back, but the campaign won&#8217;t use it.  Read <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> this morning.  The Karl Rove attack won&#8217;t go away just because you try to ignore it.<\/p>\n<p>The weak ad that Warren ran in response is not an adequate rebuttal to the kind of attack that was mounted.<\/p>\n<p>Can you hear that whistle in the distance?  That is the train you are about to collide with.  I see the train wreck coming and yet I cannot seem to shout loud enough to wake you folks up.<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact is that you will just ignore this warning too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got another Elizabeth Warren campaign email. I responded to the initial part of the message: On 12\/29\/2011 10:03 AM, Mindy Myers, ElizabethWarren.com wrote: > > It&#8217;s about fighting for middle-class families in Massachusetts and > across our country who are getting hammered &#8212; and have been, year > after year, now for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9453,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions\/9453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}