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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEliabeth Warren ENDORSES Hillary Clinton!
All of the female Democratic senators signed a secret letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton early this year encouraging her to run for president in 2016 a letter that includes the signature of Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other senators who are mentioned as potential candidates, two high-ranking Democratic Senate aides told ABC News.
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Warren, D-Mass., has been widely mentioned as a possible liberal alternative to Clinton in Democratic primaries. While she has denied interest in running, this letter goes further than shes gone previously in supporting a Clinton candidacy.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/in-secret-letter-senate-democratic-women-rally-behind-hillary-clinton/
Actually, this is old news - the article is dated Oct. 30. But there appears to be a group here that have forgotten it.
dballance
(5,756 posts)She, like Bill (NAFTA), is too corporate. At least we know that going into it. I feel a bit like I was taken by Obama's hope and change message. I think he's done a great job given all the obstruction. He has surprised me with his TPP stance. I'm afraid of an 11th hour decision on KXL.
I'm not happy at all with his TPP support.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)I don't see how this can benefit us and our country. Maybe I'm not looking hard or deeply enough, but I just can't see what the benefit of TPP. I really can't.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)We need a progressive President. If not Warren, perhaps another.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)They are pretending it isn't real.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Let's just think about it this way: If Warren was asked to sign this secret letter in support of Hillary Clinton for President, could she really say No? So was it really an endorsement or just a practical way to not have people all over her for daring to challenge the grate Clinton.
No, she couldn't. This letter nonsense is just that - nonsense. Probably Bill's or Lanny's made up story.
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)She signed a secret letter with 25 other women, started by a Clinton supporter, which merely encourages Hillary to run.
Do you want her to deny the lie that this is a public endorsement?
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Words mean whatever we want them to mean. Dictionaries are for losers.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)And DU seems to be for liars
2014 isn't even over and this site is being used as a medium to suppress progressive Democratic female senators from running in 2016, as what could only be part of some campaign. Its shameful
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
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AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)hence teh lol
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)But it is happening. A lot.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)If warren wants to run, she will run.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)It probably comes straight from the Clinton headquarters. And that is good news to me.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)The Clinton machine is quite real and quite powerful.
-Laelth
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Newt Gingrich coined that term back in the 90s.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Noam Scheiber mentioned it in a recent essay. It's real, even if it wasn't as old when Newt Gingrich named it. There's nothing wrong with it, btw, but let's be honest about its existence.
Here: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115509/elizabeth-warren-hillary-clintons-nightmare
-Laelth
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)She is the least scary politician to come down the pike in a decade.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)But it sure is weird, and it sure is widespread.
They're angry, they bend the meanings of words, and they post nothing about why Warren shouldn't run, just that she'll lose, she belongs in the Senate, and that her supporters are really, really stupid and/or Republican infiltrators.
Very odd.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)In the first few replies you will normally get the lie. Sometimes its instant.
Im not saying its aliens, but.....
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Still not ready to declare it an organized effort... But does seem odd.
blue14u
(575 posts)I'm not going to take that suppressant pill..
You can't make me! NOPE....
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NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)DU isn't a propaganda engine meant to throws lies onto
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts),
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)In fact, I'm seriously thinking going full Independent. The "Democrats" have moved far too right for far too long, and I see ZERO impetus to move Left from this batch of so-called "DEMS." Disgusting.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)to where you will have zero influence in the real world is a sound idea, knock yourself out.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Hillary is all for any trade agreements for screwing us. I don't trust Hillary, like I don't trust Bill!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)January, just after Ms. Warren had taken her oath of office?
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)They believe Senator Warren will eventually jump into the race. Or, at least, they hope she will.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It just makes me think less of Senator Warren if she doesn't see Hillary's values are anathema to the values and issues Warren ran on for her Senate seat and the reasons that so many of us are trying to draft her to run.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Who ever the nominee is I'll vote for them. In a lot of ways I'd like to see Hillary be the first woman President but it won't matter if someone else gets the nod or she bows out cause I'm voting Democratic all the way.
Reformed Bully
(43 posts)Michelle & Jill
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)then again, EW may not be ready to run for president, anyway. She was just elected as a freshman Senator a little over a year ago. It's a long time between now and 2016, and there are still the midterm elections to focus on, so it's best to wait and see who will step forward. Regardless of which Democrat gets the nomination, it's important to give them a strong progressive majority in both Houses.
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)And endorsement is a public, exclusive announcement of support for candidate running for political office.
A secret encouragement to run is not an endorsement.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)How odd, since there's nothing about an "endorsement". A political endorsement is a quite different animal than 'encouraging someone to run'.
cali
(114,904 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)of some of our fears regarding her positions so maybe she will address them publically and reconsider them.
She's a smart woman. I'm sure she is politically adept to know when to evolve with the changing political landscape.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Or, is this thread like peanut butter to ants?
SHE ISN'T FUCKING RUNNING LOL
Marr
(20,317 posts)Well, not really-- since Warren by no means "endorsed" Hillary Clinton.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I imagine Hillary won't be getting a whole lot of "secret letters" once people know that she or (more likely) her people leak the info.