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brooklynite

(93,834 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:42 AM Dec 2014

Okay, let's say Warren CAN be convinced to run for President...what have YOU done to convince her?

I've talked to Hillary Clinton. I've talked to Brian Schweitzer, who's my backup candidate.

What have the Warren supporters done at this point? (other than "voting" in DFA's online poll or "signing" MoveON's online petition). Written a letter? Called her office? Organized a local rally? Anything? Or is the hard work someone else's job?

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Okay, let's say Warren CAN be convinced to run for President...what have YOU done to convince her? (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2014 OP
I am neutral on Warren. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #1
Why, is it up to me to convince her or Sherman A1 Dec 2014 #2
Thank you. Why is it up to us to 'convince' candidates OR officeholders to Nay Dec 2014 #7
I'd ask her to lunch, but she's a little busy. nt RiverLover Dec 2014 #3
Oh, I think people are doing all those things. djean111 Dec 2014 #4
personally, I would like a strong voice for the consumer in the senate. hollysmom Dec 2014 #5
"(other than "voting" in DFA's online poll or "signing" MoveON's online petition)" think Dec 2014 #6
I think the presidency has become so beholden deutsey Dec 2014 #8
Bernie Sanders, 2016. A record of trust. woo me with science Dec 2014 #9
Personally, I have too much respect WhiteTara Dec 2014 #10

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
1. I am neutral on Warren.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:56 AM
Dec 2014

She has demonstrated a superior understanding of the issues, but that isn't enough to overcome the will of the machine.

Sabotaging the machine requires at least one of two things: Superior will, or superior personality.

We can't blame anyone for not trying to storm the bastille of that madness.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. Why, is it up to me to convince her or
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:58 AM
Dec 2014

anyone else to run for any office? I believe that is a personal decision by the candidate, they choose to do so and submit themselves for the job. If Elizabeth Warren chooses to run for office and is on the ballot in the primary in my state, I will consider her along with the other candidates based upon what I believe to be the best choice.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
7. Thank you. Why is it up to us to 'convince' candidates OR officeholders to
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:50 AM
Dec 2014

do anything at all? If they want to run and have a platform people like, they'll get elected and theoretically will try to explain and enact that platform.

If they DON'T try to enact and/or fight for the reforms they have run on, then we have a problem, but still there's no way to MAKE them do a damn thing.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
4. Oh, I think people are doing all those things.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:10 AM
Dec 2014

Are we accountable to you? Are you trying to urge us on? Or are you just attempting to marginalize.
I really didn't think anyone at DU was in charge of collecting this data.
Although your close familiarity with Hillary and Brian is, once again, duly noted. I guess we are slackers if we do not have the time and money to personally associate with them.

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
5. personally, I would like a strong voice for the consumer in the senate.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:31 AM
Dec 2014

I don't think everyone should run for president.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
6. "(other than "voting" in DFA's online poll or "signing" MoveON's online petition)"
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:40 AM
Dec 2014

I signed the online petition and glad. I'm glad you wrote a letter.

Peace...



deutsey

(20,166 posts)
8. I think the presidency has become so beholden
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:50 AM
Dec 2014

to wealthy, powerful interests in this country that it would be more than a herculean labor for any president who may actually want to serve the interests of ordinary citizens to find a way to do so.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
9. Bernie Sanders, 2016. A record of trust.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 09:56 AM
Dec 2014

A record of trust.

Warren isn't a change candidate on the MIC. Warren isn't a change candidate on the police state. I went to her "issues" page, and I think she will cut Social Security.

No unnecessary cuts or risky privatization schemes. (Jul 2012)
Modest changes will save Social Security, not privatization. (Apr 2012)
Opposes investing part of your payroll tax. (Oct 2012)
Sponsored keeping CPI for benefits instead of lower "Chained CPI". (Apr 2013)
Rated 100% by ARA, indicating a pro-Trust Fund stance. (Jan 2013)

No "unnecessary" cuts? Really? What "modest changes"?

Her talk is very good on the banks, but the PTB will easily be able to say that she can't get anything done there because of Republicans. I don't see her talking about our shredded Bill of Rights, and I don't see much on her "issues" page suggesting that she won't continue most of the very same war and police state policies that are destroying this nation.

I don't trust any of this hype around her. By my observation, half of the Obama cheerleading squad is now backing Warren, and there is great, deliberate theater being whipped up everywhere, in the MSM and across the internet, about whether or not she will run. I think it's an attempt to get people to rally and fall in line behind her without actually looking at her agenda. It reminds me of all the weird attention by the MSM months ago, when they were elevating Elizabeth by publicizing all Hillary's supposedly inadvertent "gaffes" about being poor like poor people.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is being almost utterly ignored, which is standard behavior by the MSM toward any candidate they genuinely don't want included in the national conversation.

We live in a propaganda state now, run by those who know exactly what we want to hear. I don't trust this hype around Elizabeth at all.

WhiteTara

(29,676 posts)
10. Personally, I have too much respect
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 10:12 AM
Dec 2014

for Senator Warren to think she is a lying weasel who says one thing and means another.

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