2016: Elizabeth Warren for President!

[Pryderi]

I hope she runs so I can do everything I can to put her into office! She is an advocate for the American working and middle class!

[Firebrand Gary]

1. You are too cool. Love Warren, lets give her some time to prep.

Considering what they are doing to Obama, it's getting ugly.

[Pryderi]

2. She's a passionate, progressive fighter! nt

[midnight]

3. She would be a beautiful president...

[CleanGreenFuture]

4. Elizabeth Warren Gearing Up For Senate Run, Announcement To Come Post Labor Day

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/elizabeth-warren-senate-massachusetts_n_924881.html?ref=tw

WASHINGTON -- Former Obama adviser and longtime consumer protection advocate Elizabeth Warren is moving toward a Senate run, several Democratic sources tell the Huffington Post.

The Massachusetts resident and Harvard Law School professor authored a post for an influential progressive state-based blog on Thursday afternoon pledging that she would not "stop fighting for middle class families." The article prompted a slew of speculation that Warren was poised to take on sitting Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).

Additional information relayed from Massachusetts Democratic sources suggest she's even more serious about launching a campaign. Warren is currently being assisted by two influential Democratic operatives in the state: Doug Rubin, the chief strategist for Gov. Deval Patrick's two successful statewide runs, and Kyle Sullivan, Patrick's press secretary for his first term. She has also begun making a series of calls to influential activists and party officials in the state, including one to the Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh on Thursday, a Massachusetts Democrat tells the Huffington Post.

...continued...

[Pryderi]

5. Coming Home by Elizabeth Warren:

Last week, my role setting up the consumer agency ended. My husband and I packed up the car and made it back to our home of 17 years in Massachusetts.

I left Washington, but I don’t plan to stop fighting for middle class families. I spent years working against special interests and have the battle scars to show it – and I have no intention of stopping now. It is time for me to think hard about what role I can play next to help rebuild a middle class that has been hacked at, chipped at, and pulled at for more than a generation—and that that is under greater strain every day.

In the weeks ahead, I want to hear from you about the challenges we face and how we get our economy growing again. I also want to hear your ideas about how we can fix what all of us – regardless of party – know is a badly broken political system. In Washington, I saw up close and personal how much influence special interests have over our law-making, and I saw just how hard it is for families to be heard. I want to hear your thoughts about how we can make sure that our voices –our families, our friends, and our neighbors — are heard again.

We have a lot of work to do in our commonwealth and our country. We need to rebuild our economy family by family and block by block. We need to create new jobs and to fix our broken housing market. We need to make sure that there is real accountability over Wall Street and that the greed and recklessness that created the last financial crisis do not create the next one. We need to restore the hope of a secure retirement and the promise of a good education. We need to stop measuring our economy by profits and executive compensation at our largest companies and start measuring it by how many families can stand securely in the middle class.

more here: http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/08/coming-home/

[CleanGreenFuture]

6. That's presidential talk right there. You know, I follow some financial

discussion boards and most of them are rabidly right wing and teabagger but they have a lot of respect for and wanted Warren to head the CPB just as we on the left did. However you feel about Barack Obama, a primary challenger might not be such and a bad idea. And if Warren came out with the nomination, Warren would have support from the left, independents, and a goodly chunk of those on the right who can get over her non-middle class warrior policies in order to have someone they feel can get this nation's financial house in order.

On the other hand, she probably still is supportive of President Obama and may not want to challenge him in the primary.

As for whether or not she's ready right now to be president, I say absolutely.

[Pryderi]

9. Echoes of FDR! See below

"the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759590,00.html

[CleanGreenFuture]

12. And I would assume she knows that the power needed to make any of

that happen must come from the president, and not a single U.S. Senator who may not have a majority.

[gateley]

7. Whoa! That's the first I've heard this! EXCELLENT!! nt

[CleanGreenFuture]

8. Sweet, ain't it? =0)

[joshcryer]

11. We've been saying that since Obama "refused to pick her" for the commission.

DU was all up in arms over that one because "Obama threw her under the bus" but everyone who actually follows these things knew what was up.

[CleanGreenFuture]

14. Not so much you and I together joshcryer, but yeah. And I've been

saying it since the Charlie Rose interview.

[MADem]

10. It could happen.

Logically, the next step is for USA to grow the hell up and break that glass ceiling.

She's a brilliant candidate.

[CleanGreenFuture]

13. Aw damn...let me just come right out with it...

I want Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2012 and not wait until 2016! I want it so bad my heart and mind literally yearn for it.

The thought gives me so much energy that I have to catch myself from jumping out the chair and taking off running down the street to see what I can do to make it happen.

God knows, Elizabeth Warren, I'll work my ass off for you and spend every last spare dime I have.

[gateley]

17. In order for her to realistically have a chance of winning, I think

her entry into the Senate race is an exciting first step! I just thought she was going to go back to her teaching (which she loves), I'm so excited to hear she'll be running against Scott Brown in MA!

[BlueCaliDem]

15. I would rather see how she does as an elected civil servant first

so until then, I'll hold off endorsing her for President. I like her very much, but I want to see what she's made of when she becomes Senator of Massachusetts and kicks airhead out of Ted Kennedy's old seat.

[CleanGreenFuture]

16. If that's where she decides to earn her cred, fine with me. All I need is the

campaign headquarters phone number and a donate button and I'm all set out here in Tejas.

[vercetti2021]

18. Nice!!

Warren/Grayson 2016!!!

[CleanGreenFuture]

21. I would settle for that if I had to. I'd work my freakin' ass off too.

[socialindependocrat]

19. Why don't we elect these people....

Instead of voting for people we know are bought by the wealthy ( except for Bernie) why don't these smart people run, you know, the ones who are always making sense of what congress is trying to say, and put the, in office. It's like eliminating the middle man/woman. We elect smart people from Colleges and Universities. These people have degrees in economics and foreign affairs and the like and they could stand up on C-SPAN and lecture each other about the best way to make America work and they would all agree and vote.

Oh, then we'd put all our "professional" politicians out of work!

Sounds good to me!!!

[Wilms]

20. ^/R n/t

[indepat]

22. 2012: Elizabeth Warren for President 'cause now is the time to reverse the

destructive far RW agenda before social security and Medicare are completely decimated. :patriot:

Edited for context