John Nichols, The Nation: Elizabeth Warren Wins the 'Which Side Are You On?' Debate

[highplainsdem]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170079/elizabeth-warren-wins-which-side-are-you-debate

An overbearing and at times ridiculously aggressive Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown came across as a desperate man Thursday night, as he attempted to gain the upper hand not just in the first debate of this year's most closely-watched U.S. Senate race but the contest itself.

Brown literally attacked Elizabeth Warren, his Democratic challenger, from start to finish.

Warren, unruffled and showing the confidence of a woman who has moved ahead of Brown in most recent polls, sometimes rolled her eyes or shook her head in disappointment. She made her points about economic injustice and Wall Street wrongdoing, about holding corporations to account and establishing far tax policies, about relieving the crushing burden of student-loan debt and about making sure that Mitt Romney and a Republican Senate do not fill the next vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown could attack all he wanted, but the senator who joined fellow Republicans in trying to block President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagen to the high court could not change the reality that Warren was right when she said: “This really may be the race for the control of the Senate and the Supreme Court may hang in the balance."
Warren was smooth and effective, "explaining things" with the same confidence that Bill Clinton displayed in Charlotte. It wasn't always easy; as Brown interrupted at every opportunity -- to accrue Warren of lying about her heritage, of attacking asbestos victims, of starting Occupy Wall Street.

But Warren never sweated it. She knew she had the winning hand.

-snip-

[russspeakeasy]

1. Good for her.....

[demwing]

2. I think your link is broken--but this one works:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170079/elizabeth-warren-wins-which-side-are-you-debate

[pacalo]

4. Thank you, demwing. :)

[highplainsdem]

5. Thanks. The site changed the link (from 170078 to 170079) after I posted this. I'd

copied the original link directly from the address bar.

I've edited the OP to include the new link.

[pacalo]

3. Please check the link; it didn't work for me.

Scott Brown came across as snarky & desperate to me, too. The choice couldn't be clearer with Elizabeth Warren as a candidate against him. I think Brown's desperate demeanor during the debate reveals that he knows it, too.

[highplainsdem]

6. See reply 5 above, and the OP -- the site changed the link, and I've now corrected the OP.

[pacalo]

8. Thanks for the correction & for posting Nichols' article. It's a great read.

[highplainsdem]

9. You're welcome!

[Cha]

7. Thanks for the article, highplainsdem..

"I support President Obama," she said.

Brown just gulped.

[AnnieBW]

10. "Professor Warren" Took Snotty Scotty to School!

And rapped his knuckles! Good for her! Go Elizabeth!