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Monday, November 14, 2011

Elizabeth Warren's First Ad



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4 comments:

myst101 said...

She shoulda just signed the damn petition. Told you she was just another spineless guppy.

Dale Carrico said...

Your comment is disappointing and rather dumb.

myst101 said...

Dumb and disappointing? Here's what I call disappointing...or more like baffling: Warren's refusal to support a movement that's nearly identical to the platform she's supposedly running on.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1117warren_wont_sign_off_on_occupy/srvc=home&position=also

Dale Carrico said...

And after all what's "signing on" daily to every petition flung in her face by klatches of activists claiming to speak for Occupy compared to spearheading and winning a financial consumer protection agency against daunting odds and fighting a campaign in clearheaded populist terms? Look, I'm not going to waste much time on this bullshit, except to say that while it is indeed true you can devote your attention to a string of symbolic demands and defeats even as you grant that as a substantial matter you already you know what side Warren's on all the while pitching an infantile fit because she isn't idiotically and pointlessly opening herself up clumsily to attacks (of which she already has enough given her stands) at the outset of what will be a long campaign not reducible to logical entailments, it occurs to me you might spare a moment's attention to the actual asshole darling of the financial fraudsters she is seeking to defeat in the actual race in the actual world, naked Scotty Brown. As a reader of my blog you know I am a champion of Occupy, I am not one who denies that Occupy is making clear and critical demands and is achieving stunning things -- but Occupy needs electoral politics too to implement policies in line with its righteous vision and these operate on a different terrain than the Movement itself. A Senate campaign is not the same thing as a demo or a manifesto at the People's mic. Both are needed for progressive reforms and policies equal to our distress, indeed both are indispensable to one another, and their differences need to be grasped and respected. In calling Warren another spineless guppy you show that you are indifferent to differences that make a difference. And yes that is both disappointing and dumb. Warren will be a great Senator -- not likely as great as Bernie Sanders, but someone who will strive for progressives priorities like Boxer and Franken -- meanwhile Brown is a shitty Senator bolstering chances of an obstructionist GOP gaining the Senate. These things matter whether you want them to or not. Stop looking for reasons to be baffled over bullshit, and use your fucking head.