"Unless Elizabeth Warren builds appeal outside her core constituencies, it will be challenging for her to pull ahead of frontrunning Joe Biden, who has built his own beachhead of support among moderates, working-class whites, and African-American voters."https://t.co/YIn9z79y02— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 12, 2019
Anyway, the picture. Let's take a closer look:
"OLD DRINKS" — created from "cold drinks" with the placement of an "IF YOU LOSE YOUR MONEY" sign. That's rich, and I'm going to credit the AP photographer, John Locher, with deliberately framing his photograph to catch text that is relevant, meaningful, and humorous: Yeah, she's so happy to be striding in waving a big "Hi, I'm here with the old socialist idea of taking your money."
Now, she also looks fantastic. Any more energy and she'd look insane. The clothes are completely casual but perfectly crisp and cheerful. Elizabeth Warren is 70 years old, but look how trim and sprightly she is! If she were any thinner, I'd be worried about anorexia.
And look how happy she is, even in that incredibly depressing Nevada environment, walled in with teal-trimmed white cinderblock. She seems to be bursting through the door... even though the door opens in the other way, so somebody is holding it open for her. It took me a long time to notice that her pose isn't part of a bursting through the door motion.
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Nonapod said...
I've often found there's a certain awkwardness when career politicians take photos like this. It's like they're trying too hard to be relaxed and they come off as creatures in a person suit.
Or a bug in an Edgar suit.
Whenevet possible i like to show rathsr than tell:
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/liz-warrens-radical-anti-second-amendment-agenda/?fbclid=IwAR1dnLL2IybWdf9xOQWl-MIp8MObC4lh5jQPrx6oujQZskzW8uia6fkHsrU
Hagar,
Obama was picked by the power brokers because he presented an appealing facade: a superficially charismatic, sophisticated, cosmopolitan who had impeccable "progressive" credentials but who was essentially hollow, willing to serve the interests of the ruling elites while pretending to serve the interests of the victims of the ruling elites. Many of his supporters were disillusioned--hence Trump--while others remain in thrall to the illusion/delusion of an Obama who never was.
I think Warren is among the more likable politicians, a cohort that is largely unlikable overall. She seems sincere to me, and down to earth.
Didn't you just know she would be Cook's favorite?
I do agree she is probably more sincere than most candidates but Lenin set the standard for sincerity,
BleachBit-and-Hammers said...
cut and paste Inga is back.
Next up..."...you people" and Trumpists"
Followed by, "I'm not Inga but will use that name because I have been accused so often", ha ha!
Obama was picked by the power brokers
Emil Jones picked Obama.
Emil Jones Jr., a gravel-voiced, dark-skinned African-American known for chain-smoking cigarettes on the Senate floor.
Jones had served in the Illinois Legislature for three decades. He represented a district on the Chicago South Side not far from Obama’s. He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city’s most popular black call-in radio program.
I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:
“He said, ‘Cliff, I’m gonna make me a U.S. Senator.'”
“Oh, you are? Who might that be?”
“Barack Obama.”
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
I agree the power brokers (Pritzkers) backed him in 2008 but he was a nobody when Jones picked him.
Of course, we have never learned who backed him through college and law school. I doubt we will ever know,.
Volpis season of ash, opens up in the chernobyl disaster but flashes back to the time of marx approved biology of lysenko, nearly as bad as the aryan physics of conrad stark, in klingsor.
She's dancing to the disco version of The Internationale!
The fact she was working for dow chemical debying victims rights doesnt phase
She’s no Clinton.
Indeed. Clinton has more charm.
Warren has absurdly long and spindly arms with rather large hands.
She looks like a spider.
Michael K if you want to know about Obama's rise you have to check out David Garrow's biography. Does not dwell on presidency but exhaustive on years before that. Written by someone deeply critical of Obama from the left. One of his big insights was the key importance of Obama's years in Chicago between college and law school. Went from callow youth to a man those who came in contact with all agreed was an impressive, brilliant leader. He does not quite explain how it happened but he was just taken by the differences in the ways people described their memories of Obama before and after Chicago. And he interviewed a lot of people. Quite a few scoops when the book was published in 2017 as "Rising Star: the Making of Barack Obama." I'm not as left as Garrow so not as critical. It will be interesting if Trump attracts a garrow or Caro. But such a long pre-presidential life for that type of biographer.
Elizabeth Warren's school marm charm will serve her well in Iowa, where she is now running second as she is nationwide. It would be fun to watch her handle Donald Trump in the debates. Isn't Pocahontas a great nickname? What woman candidate wouldn't want to be called Pocahontas? That's a Disney princess name, I think the only positive nickname Trump has ever given anyone. Warren has already caused Trump to make an unforced error.
You don't have to agree with her policies if you accept the "he annoys all the right people" explanation for Donald Trump. She annoys people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh in ways that would make for a really entertaining 8 years.
Look at what she is doing when she says things like that she's "a capitalist to my bones." And perhaps what is most delicious is that Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid created her when they wouldn't let her run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So instead she ran for U.S. Senate. That's not getting mad, that's getting even.
Sixty percent of the 12.7 million non-business bankruptcies works out to 7,665,347 bankruptcies that, per Warren, are caused by "extreme medical debt." Does that pass the smell test to you?
Good point, Big Mike.
I would also point put that collecting data is not the same thing as research. What was her thesis? What did she compare her bankruptcy sample to? She did not even subject the phony data to statistical analyses, AFAIK.
How do lawyers get tenure with this crap?
As for Warren, if I wanted a scrawny 70-year woman to continually scold me, I would go find my old grammar school principal, who would probably be around 96 years old by now.
"As for Warren, if I wanted a scrawny 70-year woman to continually scold me...."
Are you a banker or financier? If not, how is she scolding you?
“Warren's problem right now is Bernie Sanders, not Joe Biden. The reverse also applies to Sanders. There isn't room for both in the race- both depend heavily on winning in New Hampshire next Winter, and if they are both still in the race, it is very likely that New Hampshire will be won by someone not named Sanders or Warren”
Yes, both are in the lead in the left lane. But I just don’t see Crazy Bernie getting all that close to the nomination. He is just too wacko for the American public, and, more importantly, looks and sounds it. Warren may sound contrived, insincere, etc, but she doesn’t come across as your wacko great uncle who needs to get back on his meds, as Sanders does. Who would you trust with their finger on the nuclear button: Crazy Uncle Bernie, foaming at the mouth, with his hair flying and eyes flashing? Or that grade school teacher you hated? My vote goes to the teacher any day.
I think that Warren can survive getting shellacked in New Hampshire, if she appears to be doing well elsewhere. But if not New Hampshire, where else early can Sanders do well?
Rising star, was a needless tree murder, not as bad as remnicks bridge, that was procopius level hagiography (the first time) it tells you vry little of what you need to know about obama
We do know who paid for Obama's years at Columbia; it was Bill Ayers' parents.
Tom Ayers was the honcho at Commonwealth Edison and a power broker indeed, but Bill Ayers - a founder and leader of the Weatherman - was a "community organizer with an office on the same floor with Obama, the "callow youth."
"Are you a banker or financier? If not, how is she scolding you?”
In thirty years, with inflation, what do you think the level of wealth will be that is subject to her proposed wealth tax?
Oh, and “Marxist” “fascist” “socialist” “communist” it’s all the same deluded cohort who make pretty promises then ruin the country that believes them, so don’t expect me to get too upset at being called sloppy with labels from that grab bag.
Quite a few scoops when the book was published in 2017 as "Rising Star: the Making of Barack Obama."
Thanks. I'll read it. My daughter gave me "Audacity of Hope" in 2008 but that was just a campaign bio. If she had given me "Dreams" I would have read it. I still think he is an empty suit but that book sounds interesting.
I know Occidental College, by the way, and it is hard left. A friend was a professor of microbiology there and was denied tenure when they learned of his political opinions, which he had kept (he thought ) secret. I have wondered how he wound up there,
"And perhaps what is most delicious is that Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid created her when they wouldn't let her run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “
They. did this country a favor. Doesn’t that law have a clause that says it’s illegal for the SCOTUS to find it unconstitutional?
The question gets to be who were manipulating who?
"Are you a banker or financier? If not, how is she scolding you?'
State fellators like Warren (and you?) scold anyone who values liberty.
Obama had female lust going for him and apparently that was enough.
"State fellators like Warren (and you?) scold anyone who values liberty."
That's not an answer.
Or more accurately: who was manipulating who when?
"State fellators like Warren (and you?) scold anyone who values liberty."
That's not an answer."
Truth hurts, doesn't it, Cookie?
>Of course, we have never learned who backed him through college and law school.
Isn't "Russia" the answer to all questions of this sort these days? The other option seems to be "White supremacists" but I think that answer isn't applicable here.
Michael K. Skip Dreams. I read it in 2006 when folks were starting to predict the presidency (and when Audacity was published). Despite its unique story, I found it to be kinda dull, as written, and Garrow shows lots of places where it's inaccurate, so you could have it by your side for checking comparisons. His post-presidential memoir may be interesting, however. I suspect he wants to upstage Michelle's.
Garrow's theory for why Obama wouldn't release his college record was that he wanted to hide a course he took on socialism. Garrow had no doubt about his academic ability, however.
>>"Are you a banker or financier? If not, how is she scolding you?'
OK, she's not technically scolding me. She just wants to take all the money I have invested with bankers and financiers to fund her bullshit government giveaways and pie-in-the-sky free everything for everybody lunacy.
I'd rather be scolded, but as a deplorable I may rate even that....
"We do know who paid for Obama's years at Columbia; it was Bill Ayers' parents.
Tom Ayers was the honcho at Commonwealth Edison and a power broker indeed, but Bill Ayers - a founder and leader of the Weatherman - was a "community organizer with an office on the same floor with Obama, the 'callow youth.'"
Wasn't Bill Ayers also "just a guy in the neighborhood?"
Morally superior people do not have dessert, apparently.
readering
I doubt Garrow is right. Obama was a polisci major and it would be very strange for him not to have taken such a class (also it’s Columbia; I attended a little after him). Another possibility is that his grades were bad, but I don’t believe that either—even if he were actually dumb (which I don’t believe) there was quite a lot of grade inflation unless he absolutely did nothing, never showed up, never made any arrangements, etc.
It’s more likely that he was enrolled as a foreign student; that would be completely obvious on a transcript. I am not saying he wasn’t born in Hawaii because he was born in Hawaii (forget the birth certificate, look at the Honolulu Advertiser of the time). That may have been how he was admitted, how the school was paid for, an exotic back story that he had told like the one his publisher used, the unlikely narrative in Dreams, etc.
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word
Lyrics
Don't believe me if I tell you
Not a word of this is true
I love Cookie, but he lives in such a liberal NY bubble, that he has trouble processing claims that don't register. To his credit, though, he doesn't much care for the Democrat Party either.
I will answer your question about "scolding," if you read one of the following:
1. Thomas Sowell on Civil Rights
2. Walter Williams on Economics
3. Victor Davis Hanson on Trump
4. Andrew McCarthy on the Russian Hoax
readering: "If there was a memo on the left there would be more love for my hero (Obama)"
readering now a Journolist Denier.
Because of course she/he/xe is.
I never understood the foreign student thing. Foreign students don't get financial aid like US students. He already had the advantage of ethnicity and applying from Hawaii. garrow thinks Obama wrong to worry about a socialism course on his transcript but that's his conclusion from looking into the issue.
readering: "Foreign students don't get financial aid like US students."
In an increasing number of circumstances they get more....
"In a political climate where undocumented students are increasingly feeling unwelcome under the Trump administration's stated opposition to illegal immigration and risk deportation under its tough law enforcement policies, some states are openly promoting their tuition-free programs to those very students and encouraging them to apply."
Are you a banker or financier? If not, how is she scolding you?
You didn't build that comment.
I found it to be kinda dull, as written, and Garrow shows lots of places where it's inaccurate,
Oh, I don't doubt it is inaccurate. I suspect it tells a lot about him and who he is,. By accident, of course.
Foreign transfer students got housing at Columbia (Obama lived in East Campus), other transfers didn’t. Also only about 20 transfers a year were accepted into Columbia College. Ethnicity no doubt helped but Columbia already had a lot of African-American students (that is not based on data just my impression).
>>Foreign students don't get financial aid like US students
If they are in the country illegally, in some state University systems, they get in-state tuition. US citizens from other states do not.
I think that's financial aid, don't you?
Definitely no financial aid for foreign students. Maybe not an issue for him.
Columbia is not public and can do as it pleases, which in my day meant no tinancial aid for foreign undergrads.
She looks like a dorky high school boy in that picture. The kind that frequently, but in some way justifiably, were pushed into lockers and given wedgies.
"Trump administration's stated opposition to illegal immigration”
Doesn’t the oath of office say something about enforcing the laws of the land?
"there was quite a lot of grade inflation unless he absolutely did nothing, never showed up, never made any arrangements, etc. “
You mean the way he “edited” the Harvard Law Review? Mostly working from home "quote unquote."
Being high and/or lazy was no impediment to success at Columbia in the 89s.
Today places like NYU and USC make big money off foreign students without financial aid.
"Truth hurts, doesn't it, Cookie?"
Well, no. Even if I were invested in Warren as a candidate, there was no answer, and so not painful "truth."
They built East Campus while I lived across the street. Based on Dreams he didn't live in a dorm but maybe we brushed shoulders after all.
"OK, she's not technically scolding me. She just wants to take all the money I have invested with bankers and financiers to fund her bullshit government giveaways and pie-in-the-sky free everything for everybody lunacy."
How is that so? Government programs are funded by your tax dollars, not by money you have invested in private funds. The "lunacy" you decry is the norm in many countries, where it works pretty well. (Not perfectly, but then, our system is far from perfect.)
Warren condemns the banks and financial institutions for their criminal behavior. How does that hurt you, (especially as she is crying in the wind and her fellow Congresspersons are hardly going to impose sanctions on the financial institutions, whose "campaign contributions" they need dearly).
From the Garrow book my memory transferring into Columbia not that competitive then (unlike today). Morningside Heights a lot different!
There was an article in the alumni magazine written by a guy he lived with there. He might have lived there only one term but he definitely said he was there with him.
Columbia College was by far the smallest Ivy League school.
Btw I don’t remember if there was financial aid for transfers in those days.
Morningside Heights like every other neighborhood south of 125th and maybe even north, has been borgified. Manhattan used to have not just neighborhoods but sub neighborhoods, like a few buildings of Haitians on West End or Chinese Cuban restaurants in the Heights. All these places seem very similar to me now. I like Brooklyn but Manhattan really holds little appeal to me now.
these programs are already at the 100 trillion mark, that's more than the entire global gdp, for perspective sake, there's no tax that could cover such a shortfall, and the green new deal proponents want to tack on another 100 trillion, thereabouts,
"If you just make the government all powerful and give it all of your money, nothing bad will happen ever again to anybody.”
Shorter Lizzie Warren.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/the-lefts-exclusionary-language.php
Just one letter away from "old drunks"
"[Obama] went from callow youth to a man those who came in contact with all agreed was an impressive, brilliant leader. "
Wow, what happened???
Narciso, that's worth providing a link: Warren's Anti-gun Agenda
And I can just imagine all the various gang members rushing to register their firearms with the federal government! A veritable stampede, no?
I think theyll hold off for a bit.
BTW, I will not register my firearm with the federal government. Period.
I recall reading a rather casual interview with a letter carrier who had Ayers senior's route. He related a very interesting conversation the Mrs. laid on him about the Soetoro kid. Her hubby was quite impressed with him, and she explained hoe this young man was going to have a very bright future. He also said he'd seen Obama at the Ayer's house couple of times. Maybe had a hand in the redistricting of Obama's realm.
how
Blogger readering said...
Today places like NYU and USC make big money off foreign students without financial aid.
The most disgusting is not SC, which is private, but UC which excludes resident applicants to accept more Arabs and Chinese.
They far prefer non-residents. I am old enough to remember when UC was cheap, if not free.
>>Government programs are funded by your tax dollars, not by money you have invested in private funds.
Funny, my broker and tax guy tell me different. I guess I'll print your post out and show it to them. I'm sure they will see the light. :)
And no, it doesn't "work in other countries".
Go to France.
Go there illegally.
Then present yourself to the local government, tell them you want free health care for life, free college, and you want to bring in your "extended family", too.
Demand that the French provide services to you in English.
Demand that your children be taught in English in the French schools.
Demand a French driver's license.
Tell them they can't ask you if you are a citizen when you vote in their elections.
When they tell you "Go home", make sure you call them racists.
I gotta hand it to you Althouse, you do have an astounding ability to cross reference pop culture.
"Yeah, and Hillary was a Republican too.
Liar. "
Not just a Republican, a Goldwater Girl.
I saw late stage Judy Garland in that pose. Stiff, graceless, but still trying.
Will Cate said, "Just one letter away from "old drunks""
Good one.
Bet Liz was disappointed to find out there was no beer in that vending machine.
She looks fake.
She's a socialist. Why are we nice to them? They killed over 120 million people in the last century.
If we are going to be punching Nazis, we should be hanging Marxists along the way.
And just look at the size of that crowd...
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