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After the shock to Democrats of Scott Brown’s victory in the special Massachusetts Senate election in January 2010 it would be sweet revenge for Democrats if Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren could re-take the seat once held by Ted Kennedy this November.
Brown’s victory seemed a flat rejection of President Obama and his health care bill just 12 months after he’d taken the oath of office.
Warren is a heroine to progressive Democrats due to her work as an expert on consumer bankruptcy and her role as an advisor to Obama on consumer protection policies. But Warren’s crusade against Brown was sidetracked for a few days this week as she grappled with questions about why she’d listed herself as an American Indian in the American Association of Law Schools directory and then dropped that designation at some point after getting her Harvard job.
Steven Senne / AP
Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Elizabeth Warren talks with reporters during a news conference May 2 at Liberty Bay Credit Union headquarters.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am,” she said Wednesday.
She added that she was “a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching.” Referring to Brown, she said, “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”
In her response to the controversy Warren told reporters that one of her aunts had remarked that Warren’s grandfather “had high cheekbones, like all of the Indians do, because that’s how she saw it.”
The Indian heritage and cheekbone discussion consumed campaign time that Warren might have spent in making the case against Brown. But the good news for her is that it’s only May and a lot of voters are not paying close attention.
The Daily Rundown panel discusses the Massachusetts senate race between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown, and give their shameless plugs.
For his part Brown – the first Republican to serve as a senator from Massachusetts since 1979 --was happy to encourage reporters to keep the focus on Warren’s Indian ancestry. “You guys are asking a lot of questions and I’m learning about it as you are. You’ve asked a lot of questions and she should answer them,” Brown told reporters.
If this Senate race is this tightly focused on Warren’s ancestry and whether Brown was sexist for allegedly thinking her unqualified, one can only imagine how immersed in detail it will be by the October homestretch.
Both on Capitol Hill and in Massachusetts, Brown has been trying hard to make the case that’s he’s getting legislation enacted in a fully bipartisan fashion. He points to his co-sponsorship of a bill to ban members of Congress and congressional staffers from using knowledge gained as part of their job to trade in stocks and commodities trading – a ban that some legal scholars felt was redundant.
Last week the Senate passed another bill cosponsored by Brown, one to keep the U.S. Postal Service in operation and postponing closing of post offices and processing facilities for two years, most of Brown’s Republican colleagues voted against the bill, preferring a quicker, more radical downsizing for the Postal Service.
“We do need to work together in a bipartisan, bicameral manner,” Brown said on the Senate floor as he and his colleagues debated the postal bill. “This is not about Democrats and Republicans or Independents. It is about us as a body showing once again--trying to reestablish that trust with the American people--that, my goodness, the Senate can do things together”
In an appeal to potential ticket-splitters who will support President Obama this November, Brown ran a radio ad this week in which he said “standing with President Obama” on the day he signed it into law a veteran jobs bill “was another one of those great experiences" that he has had a senator.
Brown won the special election in 2010 with 52 percent, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley by more than 107,000 votes.
Coakley was hobbled by a gender gap. In the final pre-election poll from Suffolk University, Brown won 55 percent of male voters to 40 percent for Coakley; among women Coakley won 50 to 45 percent. Brown also won nearly two out of three independents and 17 percent of Democrats.
The most recent poll from Suffolk University in February showed Brown ahead of Warren among men, 55 percent to 38 percent and essentially tied with her among female poll respondents.
“Her strategy is very simple: all she needs to do is to win among women by what she loses men by,” said David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University.
Despite the image of Massachusetts being a Democratic bastion, 52 percent of the state’s voters are independents. Paleologos said that Warren “doesn’t need to win among independents to win the election – all she needs to do is keep it close among independents.”
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Oh great, cheese cake model Scott Brown thinks he is an ally of President Obama and sex and ethicity should matter. the only think that really matter is Scott Brown is an usual tool for the Koch Bros.
Elizabeth just drove a dagger to the heart of that meme. Not only is she proud to stand with the President but she doesn't lie.
Of course, Elizabeth Warren isn't only a close ally of President Obama's, she's been instrumental shaping Wall Street reform, especially the consumer protection agency.
She is a liar (or at the very least stretches the truth). She is taking this a bit too far. Today, she was quoted as saying, "I did not speak with forked tongue".
As far as her support of the middle class, if by that you mean that she is willing to overspend money we don't have, just like Obama; then you are right on...she supports increasing the debt as high as it can go with all sorts of wasteful programs.
You nailed it Beverly. We agree.
Before this splits right and left, there is a point here about not 'shading' your curriculum vitae (a.k.a. resume). The simplest rule is DON'T. If you pumped gas for a while in a tough job market for heaven's sake do not claim that you were a station manager. But shading ancestry is fraught with pit-falls.
P.S. There's nuthin' wrong with pumpin' gas, it sure beats sittin' at home waiting for a government check.
You Hammered it Kevin!
The hard working, limited government, personal responsibility, anti-social justice Americans Agree! Which is about ~75% of 320,000,000 people.
I was baffled by the gas statement and then I remembered that there are still people pumping gas on the east coast. It was strange to me when I pulled into a station in Jersey and they said that I was not allowed to pump my own gas. Oh well its a job.
Oh GREAT !!!
The American Indian Association should be outraged with Mrs. Warren's action, unless of course she is hiding her "birth certificate". Hmmmm...hmmmm...hm.
However, I suppose being a "Harvard graduate" gives her a "moral" progressive right to do this.
And I wonder if she listed on her resume her home town as Tijuana, Mexico, or that she is a retired Army General.
Beverly didn't nail anything she from Chicago and is use to voting for lieing politicians. Carpetbagger and minority fraud Lizzy warren will not be Brown in Massachsetts. I will not vote for a fraud who had to fake minority status to get a teaching job at Harvard.
Do I get this right? Relying on high cheek bones she is part American Indian when she wants to be and not part American Indian when she doesn't. The article clearly implies that she has she has no traceable Indian heritage. We don't need her is Washington. We have a bunch of lieing opportunists there already.
Let's see, Elizabeth Warren is apparently caught lying and Beverly from Chicago attacks her competition ! LOL !! What else is new in the land of the libtards ?
Hey, if your candidate makes herself look BAD .... by all means, attack her opposition. For everything else, Obama has a Mastercard.
How's that health care law working for you Massachusetts ? Are you getting enough government subidies ??
Brown has been a Mitch McConnell lackey and now is rushing to look bypartisan. Is Mass. really this stupid? Let's talk real issues. Remember Brown voted for the Blount amendment, one of the dumbest amendments ever put forth but Mitch McConnell told him to do it.
Oh my, my... a gale, a storm! A tempest of such microscopic magnitude that the whole universe may never recover!!!
Curious that Brown and supporters are digging so deep that this was even found. Even more telling is they're taking the time to do so. Yet, this is all they've found.
Hopefully, Warren digs just as deep on Brown. Now, that really could be telling.
Massachusetts will get it right this time. The young, women, the old, even the middle class white males have gotten the message from this new Republican party. What's especially galling to Republicans is that they have lost all hope of shaping their nastiness into twisted logic that confuses their intellectually challenged followers. You see, usually, their propaganda machine (Fox, Limbaugh, Coulter, Aisles, Palin) can turn their lies into simple catch phrases that appeal to the stupid. They can hide their hatred of "other" . . . women, the old, the poor, the young, into cute bumper stickers. This time, the more blatant . . . "we're against women" . . . . "F**k the planet" . . . . "let the old or ill just die" . . . simply isn't going to play well during the elections. I feel their pain. They've been exposed for the greedy, ignorant haters that they've become. A glossy Mitt Romney with a vainly glossy Scott Brown standing next to him, is not going to make their awful set of policies any easier to sell. The voter is indeed intelligent.
If you can stand the pain ---- no SS, no medicare, no environmental protections, a destroyed planet, wars to avenge daddy, the wealthy deciding who lives and dies ------ then feel free to ignore your common sense and vote for people who genuinely hate you.
Ido, pretty stupid comments. Nothing of substance just like a real Republican. They can't run on their programs because they are so destructive of the middle class. They have to raise all the side issues they can. Doesn't Brown support Ryan's budget plan which destroys Medicare, raises taxes on the middle class and cuts taxes for the rich?
wow. what kind of world do we live in when something like this is news? And more importantly, news that gets the moonbats out on both sides of the aisle.
Guess what, most people have family heritage stories. They grow up with them, they assume the are true. I've got a cousin whose father insists he's Czech when all evidence would seem to point to the fact that he is a Pole. So if my cousin joins a Czech society in college she's a big liar and should be crucified in a public forum?
That's what this article is actually saying. Elizabeth Warren's Grandmother said they had native american ancestery--not much of a stretch for anyone whose family has been in the US for a few hundred years, and she believed it. Big deal. Who cares.
Get a grip. Aren't there enough REAL crazy things to get worked up over?
HIGH CHEEKBONES? "The Joker" has high cheekbones. Does that make him a "native American"?
I think she's a NAIVE American!
ldo: your post inspired me to link to this somewhat OT picture.
While this isn't going to matter all that much in November, this was an unforced error on Warren's part.
/has exactly the same amount of Oglala Sioux ancestry as Warren does Cherokee
“What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”
Playing the FEMALE card to deflect the fabrications!
Nice try.
So if I possess high cheekbones then I may be a Native American? Hmmmm, since I do, perhaps our band made the wrong turn and ended up in Hungary.
Should she not also question whether he has the composition to also be black, or white, or perhaps asian?
Anything to get ahead in the progressive world. And the Bev from Chicago is right there to attempt to spin a positive for her tribe. What a joke you are sista.
To get a teaching job, you have to be extraordinarily accomplished in your field. Whether you have minority blood in you HAS NO BEARING.
Warren is a reknown expert in her field. She would be chosen by any top university to be on its faculty.
This stupid controversy, of course, is brought to you by Brown and the Koch Brothers' money. Is this all they can come up with with their millions???
The libs need to send Debbie Washermans Shorts up to help Ms. Warren. They are both ultra partisan witches. Scott Brown has this one in the bank.
Bart and the rest of you libs - How does anyone know where this information came from? You guys always say the right started the birther crap also. Which is a lie. Philip J.Berg started it, he was a democrat and former assistant deputy Attorney General.
Typical of a Mass politician scamming the system. John Kerry parks his yacht in another state to avoid paying taxes, yet calls upon everyone else to pay their fair share. Now we have a phoney pretending to be something she is not to get a job. The never ending hypocrisy from the left.
No ninny, there's no Kenyan birth certificate to be found.
Read a better article. She is 1/32nd Cherokee
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/02/warren-native-american-2
We're all 1/32nd something.
Did she go to school as an American Indian? Or just try to get a job as an American Indian. Lying to get a job gets you fired. Makes me wonder why Obama is still around. Oh well, we'll fix that in November.
It was school directory, had nothing to do with admissions. Did you read the article?
sadmoron
She listed herslf in a directory, The American Association of Law Schools, as American Indian UNTIL she got her job at Harvard. Yes, I read the article. It's still up there if you want to read it.
Who the heck cares if she did this YEARS ago? SERIOUSLY. This is a big deal? Because all of you are as pure as the driven snow and NEVER EVER misrepresented yourselves? Please... This is not my idea of high crimes and misdemeanors. If they dig as deeply into Brown's history, I am sure they will find plenty of human foibles. But yaknow what? Warren really is a woman of character. She just may choose to concentrate on the issues and let Brown be the smarmy ba$tard he is.
It never ceases to amaze me how many dumba$$es in this country are ready and willing to line up and vote against (republican) their best interests. Unless you have an account in some foreign bank, voting republican is like begging to be royally screwed. Thats not to say that democrats arent also doing this to us, they just are doing it more slowly. The republicans cant get you in the streets starving, fast enough.
Warren isn't in this for fame. She is in it because she really is disgusted by how corporate America has systematically dismantled the middle class over the past 3 decades or so. She studied it for a very long time. Go read some of her books. She is running because she feels an obligation to try to do something to stop, reverse, or at least call attention to the real issue in this country - banks and corporations controlling our government.
Brown is a smarmy status seeker. He cant hold a candle to Kennedy, and I am ashamed of Massachusetts for voting for him, as well as Romney. For these two reasons, Massachusetts can no longer be considered a Democratic stronghold, and it can no longer be considered a state with a high concentration of intelligent people. Looks like the stupidity in the western portion of Massachusetts is bleeding east.
Wait a minute....Mrs. Warren will fit in nicely with those other "elite" elected Congressional Representatives. Shucks, seems cover ups are the norm in the Congressional chambers.
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"all Indians have high cheek bones" , that's right Bev , she is a racist bigot , and she is a tool of George Soros , like all democrats , he is Geppetto and demoncrats are his Pinocchios , complete with nose lying thing
Elizabeth Warren is liar and a fraud. Its so funny people are saying she did this years ago. So what, she lied. It really funny if a democrat lied years ago, "well thats okay" Find out a Republican lied 10 years ago, "time to hang em" Warren knew the minute she checked that "minority" box on forms she was lying. She just thought because she's a liberal she could get away with it.
Warren is a liar. Obama is a liar. Progressives are all liars. Birds of a feather.
DNA. My great grandmother was black. This can be traced via DNA. Warren would not submit to this because it would further disprove her falsehoods and fraud.
See my moniker. No surprise here.
I'm a liberal cuz I want USA to be more like France...
In some respects, yes, like socialized health care.
In other respects, no, like their labor laws.
Good lets start by adopting French election laws.
Just wondering why the author didn't spend more time highlighting Brown's voting record. The vote to "ban" using knowledge to purchase and sale stock only happened last month and the vote on the post office was just last week I think, so what has he been doing.
So she faked being a Native American in order to get a job and then once she had the job, dropped the Native American persona. Sounds like she committed a fraud to me and lying on a job application is certainly grounds to be fired. Does this woman really represent the character of the people we want in our government. If she thinks it is OK to lie about her heritage to get a job what else will she think it is OK to lie about to get what she wants?!?! I hope the people of MA see through this fraud of a candidate and reelect Scott Brown.
Yes, it's pretty awful if she's not actually of Native American extraction...just like Bush and his lies about his service in Air Force.
ya , it's pretty awful that she is NOT a native American but she lied about multiple times , you got that right , but then in reality you are not upset about supposed Bush lying any more than this lying bigot racist (all Indians have high cheek bones) because you don't object to lying , as long as it gets you what and who you want elected
the lying about Indians from her is no real surprise though , after all it is Mass , where Bostonians stole someones property and destroyed it all the while dressed like Indians in order to get them blamed for their cowardly actions , the state has a documented history of hate mongering towards Indians , real standup heros eh?
@Lindy check out the wiki
about Bush's military service controversy. I just read it, and the idea that he lied about his service doesn't seem to hold water. There are apparently records, as well as eye witnesses, that said he served in the guard during the time he was accused of being AWOL.
Before you make a post about about someone, check it out for yourself. The left wing rhetoric (like the right wing rhetoric) is wrong significantly more often than it is right. Learn to think for yourself, and do some research. Don't just parrot talking points. Too many people do that already.
It is interesting how folks will take this article about her lying to other places.
She lied, plain and simple for her own benefit, and many want to talk about someone else.
Yes, there are many in the past that have done this, but you can stop the new ones from going any farther than they have.
Do you really support those that lie, or just want to complain about others that have?
You have a choice.
"The most recent poll from Suffolk University in February showed Brown ahead of Warren among men, 55 percent to 38 percent and essentially tied with her among female poll respondents...............“Her strategy is very simple: all she needs to do is to win among women by what she loses men by,” "
It sounds like she has a long ways to go. Of course, he probably looks better in a 'centerfold' than she does.
2010 was a fluke for the GOP it was the economy stupid .. the tea part capitolized on that and went screaming to every democrat town hall meeting and would not let the dems speak .. that is over now and all Americans DEM REPUB AND INDIs now see the tea party for what it is ..a tool of the top 2% and Norquist ..Americans see the republican party for their cowardice in not faceing the tea party and their stand against women
Let the M@!$%#s of Massachusetts pick their senator. If they want a beefcake centerfold RINO vote for Scot Brown. If they want a lying, conniving, 1/32 Native American, 31/32 remainder, Obama-ite, then vote for Lizzie Warren.
My Grandfather always said, "If you have to lie to get something, then its not worth having." What say you Lizzie?
Vote for Fauxcahontas!
Warren is for middle class and the poor and has proven it by her support of consumers in opposition to banks and corporations who want to take advantage of the public. Brown was vetted by the Koch brothers. Who is looking out for real Americans? That would be Warren.
Scott Brown would have voted against Obamacare .... now that would be looking out for Americans. As it was, the three stooges (Harry, Bo and Squirrelly a.k.a. Nancy) found a way to disenfranchise Scott Brown's election-winning vote by ABUSING "Reconciliation" and declared it passed.
How much money did she give to the poor that she claims to support? She did not opt to pay higher taxes in her state...her state gives people the option. She's a millionaire. She's the 1%.
But she receives a pass because she's a liberal. Attack the conservative at every opportunity, but pass the liberal because she's a liberal.
Elizabeth Warren is one very intelligent woman. I don't care if her ancestry is purple people eaters she will help this country get back on its feet. We don't need tax cutting nut jobs running this country into the ground so they can be filthy rich. EVERYONE needs a chance to make money not just a few. When the middle class is gone so goes the country. I'm very old so I don't worry for myself it is the young people who need to pay attention to this election. If you young people screw it up you will live with what you create. AS for me I don't care I'll be gone.
So lying about one's heritage to get a job is okay as long as you do some other things right (in some peoples' eyes)?
Just want to be clear where we're drawing the line.
she can't be a lier , shes a CZAR
ouch
Warren is another rich Democrat blowing hot air up the asses of the middle class, claiming to be one of them, but her actions show she is not.
When she starts getting free medical care because of her indigenous roots like the Palin kids do, then maybe I'll start caring. If she joined an interest group in college because she has American Indian ancestors, BFD.
Is Lizzie looking out for 1/32 of the Native Americans and 31/32 of the rest of us?
Liberals have to be among the biggest bunch of flakes on earth. They can justify any behavior by a member of their party as long as they can point to someone doing similar on the other side of the isle. Not that higher standards should be held for everyone, just those on the other side of the isle.
Then liberals rip the Koch Brothers who own and built a conglomerate that employs over 70,000 people, 50,000 in the US alone. From Georgia Pacific, Invista, Koch Pipeline, Flint Hill Resources, Koch Fertilizer, to Koch Agricultural. Can any of you liberals point out the number of jobs George Soros has created in acquiring his billions?
The endless hypocrisy from the left. Demonize people that actually put Americans to work in favor of someone like George Soros. Who is known as the man that broke the bank of England. Soros is nothing more then a speculator guilty of insider trading. What a great poster child for the face of liberalism. No surprise liberals can justify his behavior since he supports them.
and Rick
George (the commie) Soros holds over 11 billion in gold
Scott Brown must have some internal poll info that's telling him he's in big doodoo if he's pushing THIS issue!!! LMAO!
Scott Brown didn't bring up this issue of fake Native American status. A reporter from the Boston Herald found the information in the public records. Please check out the Boston Herald and quit blaming Brown, he had nothing to do with outing the phoney Indian Princess.
Brown is pushing it.
Bill
What do expect Brown to do kiss her for lying??
I liked when Dennis Miller called her Spreading Bull. Pinocchio Hontas was another good one. Lies Lies Lies. Did all of you saying she is smart and intelligent ever stop to think that smart people lie? Do only dumb people lie in liberal land?
daryl
And just how much 'spin' did Warren put out to say she is Native American Decent? If she is so proud of her Native American Family ties,lets see her apply for membership in a tribe. Then we can see how far that gets.
hc,
Nope, mostly from consrvative land. They have been doing it for years now. Guess that makes them more stupid than dumb, wouldn't you say? LOL!
Now we have lying Blumethal from Conn,Lying Hillary a congential liar,a lying president,lying Pelosi,lying Reid,lying Biden,so Warren would fit right in with all the Democrats we already have. Lying Democrats seems to not be a minority.
My favorite name for her is:
Lying Sacagwea
The left can justify any behavior from a member of their own party. Higher standards are only required for the other side of the isle. Liberalism and hypocrisy simply cannot survive without each other. You have to wonder if a liberal ever admits the truth, do they burst into flames or something?
Vote for Fauxcahontas! She didn't lie, much.......
If you folks are going to act like team Warren Cheerleders you might as well dress the part.
and those who are team Brown cheerleaders will be undressed?
Curious (read: ridiculous) comment made worse by misspelling.
Typical liberal response, they can critique everything but their own party. The trouble with liberals is not that they are ignorant, it is just that they know so much that isn't so.
In an appeal to potential ticket-splitters who will support President Obama this November, Brown ran a radio ad this week in which he said “standing with President Obama” on the day he signed it into law a veteran jobs bill “was another one of those great experiences" that he has had a senator.
And I look forward to the great day when I am invited to his inauguration.
Wow, how about a dash to the left. He must be reading some interesting polls.
b dune,
that was actually funny. thanks!
Brown and the whole GOP are desperate trying to dig up anything they can, President Obama being fed dog as a child, now the Indian gate! LOL
Keep grasping at straws, we all know what the GOP/baggers stand for, cutting tax's and deregulation, nothing says jobs like trans-vaginal probes!
Same ol, same ol....just humming along.
Both are pertinate as the dems seem to have no problem using this against theold dog thing against Romney, and she is the one that cheated, kind of like parking in a handi - capped parking space, is it ok if she does that???????????????
What is wrong with cutting taxes, does it spoil your free be's, we need to get rid of free spending liberals who think it is ok to keep dipping into our pockets to keep spending stupid money. Bet you think the EBT scandel is nothing too. Can't wait to hear the crying when the dems loose another big round of seats come the end of the year.
Hummbird
Brown didn't claim he was of Native American decent Warren did that.
She was 'outed' by the Boston Herald not by Brown's Campaign.
Hell, I'm all in favor of Indian ancestry. What's all the noise about? Scott Brown and the Koch brothers have no solutions for jobs and the economy so they try to dream up nonsense like this.
slodon,
Don't try and use facts on hummbird. Clearly this poster can't read an article to know the truth.
Koch Industries employ over 50,000 in the US and another 20,000 world wide. How many people does George Soros employ?
Typical of a Mass politician, do or say anything to get ahead. John Kerry parks his yacht in another state to avoid paying taxes, and yet he says everyone else needs to pay their fair share. Warren is a phoney, but is it any surprise liberals embrace her rather then hold her to the same standard they demand from the other side of the isle? Apparently to liberals, the truth is nonsense.
So now he Boston Post is a right wing conspirator? They were the ones that actually reported the story.
oh please, this is a non issue for us that have followed Warrens works. Can we focus on real issues and not her ancestry, who the hell cares? we dont. I dont care what religion she is, or skin color, Im interested in her work b/c thats what she's hired to do and she has done excellent work and thats why we support her.
Honesty and character are big issues for a lot of voters. She has very little of either.
Seems to me that Mrs. Warren developed this controversy HERSELF and didn't need any help from the Obama administration.
Hmmmm....hmmmmm....hm.
All that, you don't care that she cheated and lied, why doesn't that surprise me, as it is SOP for the democrats.
Obviously she cared or she never would have put it in writing.
Read a better article. She is 1/32nd Cherokee
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/02/warren-native-american-2
This is important. It shows she only has character when she is caught.
This really is a non-issue. The Right wing nut jobs have nothing else to go after Warren on and they certainly cannot run on Brown's record in the Senate, which has been TOTALLY partisan. Sadmoronsvote2: Asking these RWNJ's to "read" is like asking them to open their mind and let facts in, which would make them question things like "creationism" or "global warming" or "Trickle down economics". They hear the talking points on "Faux" news..."Job creators", "War on Religion", "Socialism" and that's their "fax". Facts and science will never dissuade them from what "Rush" and "Hannity" and "O'Reilly" tell them is the truth.
It doesn't matter what race this woman is - as MickyMac said, "it's about honesty and character". When you mark Native American on any form, census, job, college - it means you don't just think you had a Native American ancestor. To have the right to mark that, you'd have had to done extensive geneaology and / or have formally enrolled parents that formally enrolled you in a federally recognized Indian tribe. And, you'd have had to meet blood quantum set by that tribe and be granted citizenship in that tribe. It isn't that easy to actually be Native American. This woman knew she'd have a better chance of getting into Harvard if she was a minority on paper. (It gets really tricky for the entity like Harvard to question what she marked.) She intended to deceive Harvard and now she'll deceive the voters of her state. Deception worked for her getting into Harvard, will it work going to Congress? It's all about honesty and character.
Really mickey whatever,
How would you know about character and honesty? From your post #7.1 it is oblivious you don't have much to of either. I take it you know this person personally? Didn't think so, making judgements hastily are we?
sm,
Kinda like your candidate when he places those "superpac" ads on TV, huh? You know, when he takes what the President says completely out of context and tries to pass it off as the truth! I wonder if his deception is going to work trying for POTUS?
Really who cares if she embellished. Since when has moral or ethical behavior mattered to left, other then when they are pointing fingers at the right. It is just more hypocrisy from the left, like Senator John Kerry that parks his yacht in another state to avoid paying taxes. But says everyone else needs to pay their fair share. Liberals only have standards for quality of character if they are on the other side of the isle.
I guess integrity is not required if you have a (D) next to the ballot. Lemmings.
OMG, not another effing progressive.
A whole lot better than another regressive. Many of us think we are in fact better off beyond the stone age.
Yep, they abound in this administration.
The SofS even professed to be a "Modern Day Progressive" a couple years ago. That will look really good on her resume when she runs for President in 2052.
Yep that's me, liberal, progressive, yellow dog democrate. What other names you want me to admit to. I'll answer to any except republican.
Proud to stand with the president, he's not so proud to stand with her apparently. As for being for the middle class - yes. Ms Warren proves that a 1%er can care about those who Obama has ignored for 3/5 years.
How has Pres. Obama ignored the middle class???????????????? I haven't heard a single republican wanting to create a single job. They just want to create a middle class in CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And tell those of us female what to do with our female parts. How many jobs will forced ultra sounds create.
I created several jobs...yeah....that's the ticket.
I even...killed Osama binLaden....yeah.
And.....I, uh, er, um, also liked to um, er, ah....I killed Osama. Yeah, that's the ticket.
We all know the President will carry Massachusetts. So, when the voters vote it should be pretty easy for them to select Ms. Warren.
Remember vote all Democrat in 2012.
I'd guess this election is 50/50. Brown is a moderate, kind of, republican while Warren needs a little more integrity.
If the GOP had put a real understanding person up for election against Obama, they might have had a chance of defeating him. But with the road show of clowns they had, it makes a person wonder if they have a understanding Person in the GOP.
However, do not count out all of the voter caging going on, hacking into electronic voting machines, the etchy sketchy guy could win. And yes, as an independent voter, I plan to vote for Obama.
Reason why, is actions speak more than words. Look at the bills Congress passed, and the state bills passed by the GOP control states. And how those bills effect my reproduction rights is plain to see. So the GOP/tea baggers can go screw them selves this time around.
SallyAnn since you put it that way I feel obligated to point out to you that your "independent" progressive education did little for you in the grammar department, perhaps you should have sought out a more conservative approach.
And I posted this without the insults.
SallyAnn: With all that is facing this country, I would suggest you pull your head out of your reproductive area and try to understand that the issues to be decided in this election are far greater that your ability to terminate a fetus that was the product of your desire to have intercourse without protection.
Get a grip woman, the future of 350m Americans are at stake here, not just your self centered reproduction (or your lack thereof) "rights"!
Elizabeth Warren is looking at the high cheek bone on her rear end, not her face! When she looks in the mirror she sees the real @!$%# she is!
Warren grossly exaggerates her heritage.
Brown demonstrates hypocrisy on Obama-care.
In the category of character, it's a toss-up.
It's not Warren who exaggerates her heritage, it's the press. She's not the one who started talking about it.
No, she exaggerated her heritage when she STOLE affirmative action slots, and was SPECIFICALLY HIRED, (Per HARVARD THEMSELVES) because Harvard felt they needed to diversify the staff.. LMAO! So, she brought his on herself. She's used it for minority status in hiring EVERYWHERE she went as a attorney.. So, that would be DizzyLizzy who exaggerated, not the press, they just caught her.
No it was Warren who checked off the boxes on applications and registrations, it is called lying and cheating, not a little white fib. She is as full of --it as a christmas turkey. Take a good look at what she has been doing, and it does not bode well for the working middle class anywhere.
Elizabeth Warren is just as big a hypocrite when it comes to her state taxes. Massachusetts allows you to check a box to pay taxes at a higher rate if you would like to contribute more to the state which I was sure a champion of the downtrown and middle clas like Warren would be checking since she believe in higher taxes for the rich and giving back to the poor and middle class. I was SHOCK I tell you to discover she doesn't voluntarily give more in taxes. Typical liberal higher taxes are alright as long as it's someone else's money. This women is nothing but a phoney.
Read a better article. She is 1/32nd Cherokee
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/02/warren-native-american-2
gideb114--you might want to consider looking up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary as I don't think you understand what it means. There is nothing remotely hypocritical in saying America should raise taxes, especially on those who by far get the most benefit from the existing tax code, while yourself following the tax laws. I'm absolutely in favor of increasing taxes, I think it's ridiculous to continue pretending that infinite cuts will magically solve America's problems, but at the same time I'm absolutely in favor of any American taking advantage of (nearly) any legal and ethical means to minimize their own tax burden. Considering how the right insists repeatedly how trivial the impact would be on the US's revenue to do something like the Buffett rule, it's pretty disingenuous and nearly hypocritical that they then insist that anybody who believes Americans should pay more taxes should just voluntarily pay more themselves, as though that would do a damn thing to help.
"...Nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands. Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions."
But some of us stand convinced that the law should demand more so all can share the burden of keeping our government working for us.
Wall Street Reform by Elizabeth Warren !!!! As the saying goes: "where's the beef?"
She's just another lame liberal (just like Barney Frank - thankfully he is retiring; and will do no more damage).
Well except to his sphincter. The poor thing.
Elizabeth Warren is the best candidate in this or many even any race nationwide.
Surely you jest.
Warren is a woman, that automatically makes her unqualified as far as Republicans are concerned. You're also unqualified if you are gay, hispanic, middle class, poor, or elderly.
You know, 'cuz Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Susana Martinez, Nikki Haley, and Mia Love don't exist.
/sarc
mk1,
Armando just OWNED YOU with his/her reply ! Thanks for the laugh !!
show me a politician that doesnt stretch the truth and i'll show you a purple unicorn that poops rainbows.
Wasn't that basically the gist of Obama's 2008 campaign?
Armando 2
Libtards 0.
Isn't that Romney campaign so far? Thought so!
That's all the media will be asking ms Warren: why she listed herself as an Indian. Why not ask if, as a congressperson, she would vote for a preemptive war against Russia which recently announce it may preemptively war against us. Or if she would vote for a Declaration of War against Iran before committing U.S. forces which would be needed to support Israel if Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities. No wonder our government is so dysfunctional.
I say if She was once a liar then always a liar. She advanced herself in college by claiming to be Native American. She needs to pay back all the tuition she got illegally over the years.
False claim. She did not get her college financed through claiming to be native american (if you are at all interested in the truth).
No one said FUND, that would be correct, ADMITTED to the college as a minority? That too would be correct. Nice false choice there, Mark.
Read a better article. She is 1/32nd Cherokee
http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/02/warren-native-american-2
This was not for entrance into school. It was in a directory. You are way off base here.
What's the fuss? This is American politics. Since when did the "truth" have anything to do with it? How can they live it, if they don't even know what it is?
Therein lies the problem, at least the right wants to have it cleaned up.
Term limits are needed to weed out the the ones that can't separate themselves from the "power".
Bill,
Then I take it you are not voting for Romney? Too bad!
lolol!! This is too funny! Leave it to a Democrat to once again find a way to make the campaign about women's issues! That she is not qualified to teach because she is a woman? Duh! What is the percentage of women teachers?? I am sure it far surpasses that of men. Good luck with that strategy! I can see how far it got with Obama and how that backfired!
And I thought the Democrats are known to be the party of tolerance. To suggest that Warren considers herself a Native American simply because she has high cheakbones in her family is so steryotypical. What will she say next to get elected? "I have a black heritage because someone in my family has big lips?" This is so ridiculous!
Actually her great great great grandmother was verifiably Cherokee. Interesting how they articles are starting to levee that part out, thus opening the door to all these lies from those looking for something to criticize.
I thought it was great great great great or something like that. I heard that she was 1/32 cherokee. How does one even verify that?
There is one document that hasn't been certifited yet that supposely support her claim but geneology had to fine the document it wasn't in Warren's family possession. Warren today in a interview stated she found out she was part Indian by here grandmother showing her a picture of her great grandfather and her grandmother stating you could tell he was Indian because of his high cheekbones. So there you go a nice sterotype from our PC canidate Elizabeth Warren.
Please do not tell me that her checking Native American didn't help her get her teaching job at Harvard. She graduated from Rutger Law School which is consider one of the lowest law school when Harvard is looking at hiring a Professor. Her law school is rank 2nd to last in hiring practices. Most of the Professors at Harvard all have Ivy League degree so please don tell us she was the best qualified applicant. She was hired because Harvard got to kill two birds with one stone - they got to check of the women and minority hire blocks by hiring Lying Lizzy.
gideb,
So you personally do the hiring at Harvard? Did you interview her for the position she applied for? You know this to be a fact? How? You have some documents we don't know about? Just asking, you know? You seem to know so much, especially the hiring practices at Harvard. Lie is a very strong word when you don't have anything to back up your statements, wouldn't you say! LOL!
Brown's record will haunt him if Warren is smart enough to remind voters what his record is on the major issues.
1. He voted against health care reform 3 times.
2. He voted to continue tax breaks for big oil repeatedly.
3. He voted against the Buffet Rule and against 73% of Americans' wishes.
4. He signed the letter to Senate leader Harry Reid which basically said that they (every single republican senator) would block every piece of legislation that came before them until the Bush tax breaks for the richest Americans are extended.
5. He votes against the environment every time. He is a slash and burn capitalist.
6. He is in bed with wall street. The massive donations from them is a strong indicator.
The list goes on.
Go Elizibeth Warren.
I don't know if you remember but he was elected because of this! Remember? I will refresh your memory! The people of Massachussets were disgusted with the process of Obama and the Dems ramming this unsustainable, partisan Healthcare down their throats the way they did and the people had to make a point, therefore Scott Brown, a Republican was elected!
Do you have ANY IDEA where Dizzy Lizzy is getting her donations? I'll give you a hint, NOT FORM THE MIDDLE CLASS. She's schmoozing movie producers and those wonderful knowledgable people we call actors.. She's raised 85% of her money OUTSIDE of Massachusetts. Sorry. I'm glad you want to pay EVEN MORE for gas then we are now, but I'm not. If you take away 4 bil from the oil companies, are they just going to say 'gee, here ya go blowbama, sorry' or are they going to PASS THAT ALONG TO ALL OF US? STUPID, just plain STUPID people that think that way. Umm, the MSNBC POLL, found VERY LOW support of the JimmyBuffet Margarita law, not 73%. Stop pulling numbers from your keister to make a point.
Lets start with Warren gets more from "big money" , then move on to everyone of the things on your list will help America, rather than let our POTUS drag us down to failure.
Making Buffet rule faiures a stand for your side is Ok with us as it will be your downfall, and Buffets(the non tax paying POS that wants to not pay the billion he already owes).
Voters in MA don't care about Obamacare ; we have Romneycare. Why would I want to be tax to pay for others insurance nationwide when I already pay for the bloodsucker of this state?
Don't forget that Lying Lizzy is one of the beauitiful people that went to Hollywood to suck up for donations.
Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act, Scott Brown's 23 years old daughter has stayed on his health care insurance. But yes, he voted against it.
I can excuse Warren on this one...for the stake to take the Senate back to the fold of the mainstream Americans is great. Let's see, is she fighting a squicky clean republican candidate? If not, what's the problem?
Upset....Really what you listed was the reason why Scott Brown was elected.
1. He voted against Health Care. Everbody in this country knows we need Health Care Overhaul. They just do not wanted rammed down their throats. An issue this large should not have been "Political" like Obamma made it. When he did not like what the Republicans had to say he Steam Rollered them. At that point is where the Republicans told him he will never pass a significant piece of legislation again. Bill Clinton never would have approached it this way. His arrogance and lack of Leadership caused his back lash
2. He voted against tax breaks for Big oil. Oil is 25 per cent of the economy. Why is Big oil the Bad guy? I think we should support our own and not have support go to our Midddle East enemies.
3. He voted against the Buffet rule. Taxing Millionaires would do absolutly nothing for our Economy. It would not even dent our "Debt". Maybe we should add up all the failed Green energy tax backed intiatives. Cut back on half of the Prsidents Tax sponsered vacations. Also having the President cut back on the Tax payers paying for his Campaign speeches. It would probably all add up to the extra tax he wants to put on the Millionaires. By the way Pittsburgh is in the middle of sending a local Senator to jail for using tax payer money for her campaign. Except she did it on a smaller level. The President blew hundeds and Thousands of dollars on his campaign sweep through all the colleges last week and putting the tab on the taxpayer .
4. "He signed the letter.........to allow Bush Tax Breaks." Here is breaking news for you ....even Presiden Obama will continue the Bush Tax Breaks....because that is what you do when the Economy is as God awful as it is today. This is the weakest Recovery ever from a Recession. There is a reason why...he sits in the White House. Excuse me.... He is never is in the White House...He is always campaigning instead of doing his job.
5. "........He is a Capitalist". Well isnt that what this country was built on ? If you want Socialism or Communism.....Please go somewhere else. People like you only hurt our country as you sit there and Demonize the very people that provide jobs AS YOU WAIT FOR YOUR HAND OUT.
6. In Bed with Wall Street.... Wake up . Our Economy revolves around Wall Street. Just last week Obama was praising Wall Street on how well it is doing in one of his campaign speeches. Why? Because with out the markets our Economy crashes... That would mean Chaos.
Upset... For the 6 reasons you will think he will lose are the reasons why he will win again. Those are the exact reasons why he won in the first place....He is not hiding from it.
Brown's record will haunt him if Warren is smart enough to remind voters what his record is on the major issues.
1. He voted against health care reform 3 times.
2. He voted to continue tax breaks for big oil repeatedly.
3. He voted against the Buffet Rule and against 73% of Americans' wishes.
4. He signed the letter to Senate leader Harry Reid which basically said that they (every single republican senator) would block every piece of legislation that came before them until the Bush tax breaks for the richest Americans are extended.
5. He votes against the environment every time. He is a slash and burn capitalist.
6. He is in bed with wall street. The massive donations from them is a strong indicator.
The list goes on.
Go Elizibeth Warren.
Warren's ancestry? Is that an issue upon which an election should be decided? If it is, then American voters have gone bonkers!
Dr. Sam-3913070
I believe that the issue is simply one of integrity. Most Americans are simply fed up with politicians stringing any line of 'horse feathers' to get elected, stringing another line when in office, and yet another to get re-elected. That prince of turds Newt Gingrich comes too readily to mind.
Dr.Sam, No, it is not the fact that she could be Native American! It was the fact that she misrepresented herself in a directory by listing herself as a Native American to get invited to some event. That shows lack of character, integrity and honesty that is lacking in most politicians!
No, its not the heritage, it shows she belongs in the GSA, not the Senate.. Stealing from worthy people that deserved the slot in the college, should have got the job, just shows she's another screw anyone on the way to the top politician. She claims to have founded Occupy until the country decided occupy was nothing but a bunch of spoiled whiney college kids that daddy threw out because at 28, they'd rather play PLaystation in the basement than work.
Not her ancestry but the point of LYING should mean something to you, or maybe you think that is a good trait in a states representative.
When you have nothing you grasp at straws.
Romney is a huge liar. Watch the videos on youtube. Anyone who can't support Warren for something that is technically true should not support Romney who says every day things that are decidedly false.
Ms. Warren is the BEST of the best. She is a gift to the people of Massachusetts and stands squarely with the 99%. She has the expertise in economics many times over and is SIGNIFICANTLY more qualified than her opponent. I have said so many times she is a price above rubies and we would be infinitely foolish not to take advantage of this gold we have been given. Ms. Warren I pray for you every night and blog in support as much as I possibly can. When the election draws near I feel confident that the wise, educated, intellectually astute people of Massachusetts will send this eminently qualified and gifted person to the United States Senate.
She's a 1%er herself.
I will have the BEST LAUGH when this condescending fool is kicked to the curb in November, and goes running back to her falsely obtained affirmative action slot at Harvard.
And you Lizzy can go home and weep.
Yes, a typical elitist! She will lose the same way Scott Brown won his last election!
Gawd, that's enought to make me barf.....are you kidding or for real?
Nat - I just threw up in my mouth a little after reading your post. You need some serious help...remember there is no stigma any longer to seeking mental health support.
I hope she beats the pants off of him. She's great, no matter her heritage.
Getting his pants off would be an even bigger fantasy for her than the one of being native american.
Scott Brown said it the best when she commented on his modeling, no one wants to see her naked..
Her heritage isn't the issue her lack of integrity is!