Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren helps President Obama rewrite the new democratic response to the Republican chant of "class warfare." MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell explains.
Rewriting GOP's 'class warfare' attack
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:46 PM EDT
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The perfect Socialist.
To me it sounds like Ms. Warren cares about someone besides her self. Watch out Scott Brown, I think you have met your match. It should be a fun race to watch.
The troll's are out.
Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell, I hope newsvine fixes my ability to vote up your stories....?
Thumbs up ^ Elizabeth Warren...
Predictable that someone like sixpick, the perfect idiot, would show up here first.
Thanks, Hal, for making me laugh!!!
Myrmidon.
Yes, myrmidon is the perfect discription of Obama's idiots.
And Obama is the perfect specious person for them to follow.
It's only applicable if you are a true lib-a-turd.
This idiot on the video needs more myrmidon people like you, but I really think you'll find after all your boasting you'll come to realize you are in the minority and will be saddened the day after the election. Obama/Biden leaving the White House 2012. Sorry, that's real compassion for you.
Write on sixth pick you are the one who in the minority. Your lack of compassion and misleading information will not serve you well. No one will be leaving the White House or the office in 2012.....however some of the 112th may be looking for new jobs.
Elizabeth Warren knows what she is talking about, and many of us who have suffered the obstruction and legislation stalling reps are sick and tired of their careless actions. We will prevail.
Candidate Warren put into perspective how capitalism is supposed to work, how it works best and schooled the Republican cheapskates. What makes us great as a nation is our ability to retool our industries in time of emergencies and the shared sacrifices that have built and kept our infrastructure so as to get our goods to the market. Now Republicans want to stop their share of infrastructure money at the same time as they are espousing that they want to build jobs. But what is the sense of building jobs if your infrastructure is not good enough to deliver the goods? The Republican Debate showed mirror images of obstructionist sound bits. Candidate Warren put into perspective how our system works and what has made our country great. President Obama realized this and stepped up his game concerning fixing our infrastructure and increasing jobs because of his wisdom/intelligence/desire to better America. However, Republicans are still monkeying around in a monkey see/monkey do nothing/monkey obstruct fashion because of their Tea Party convention concoction! QUICO!
And just who is responsible for maintenance of the infrastructure if not the federal government? Remember the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis and killed 13 people? One in four bridges in the US is listed as structurally deficient. The life of a bridge is supposed to be 50 years, and the average age of our bridges is 43 years.
That's only our bridges. Remember the levees in New Orleans? How about dams? We've not really concentrated on the condition of our infrastructure since Ike was president, and it shows in the deterioration of all of the above items.
This is not a political ploy, it's a real life situation that must be dealt with. What better time to do it than now? We have literally millions of unemployed people, supplies are cheap, money is available at a low interest rate. Why not utilize all that to do something that has to be done anyway?
Warren is a communist marxist as for Hussein Messiah Obuma after three years remembered to fix the bridges and highways ? I like when he said that he is worrier for the poor and the middle class. What a JOKE and what JOKER together with Warren. If she thinks she can win that's another thing comming.
Hope your not easily disapointed.
Sorry Johnny boy, He doesn't have to worry about that. But thanks for the compassion, anyway.
I tend to agree with this young ladies ideals but the message assumes that taxes aren't collected from those factory owners and that they have not paid anything towards education, security and infrastructure. I do believe in what she is saying but why does Warren Buffet or Bill Gates have to pay more taxes when we let billionaires from India and China import goods tax free. Why not balance the deficit with increases on tariffs? I know they always say it would hurt our exports but when have we not had a trade deficit? Who knows, maybe we get some jobs back out of it as well.
Just seems that it's easy to attack people here and ignore that we are shipping jobs and wealth over there. Why should we pay for corruption, exploitation and military build-ups over there when we can have them pay for our Medicare and Social Security.
Why not suspend military and foreign aid programs for say two maybe three years and spend the money saved on infrastructure and "Green Jobs" here instead of raising anyones taxes.
I think her notion of paying it forward is great but the real question is who should pay, our citizens (the ones who built those items she discusses) or the people who are taking our jobs with lower tax rates, free trade agreements and the whole WTO concept.
Bill....
Yes, sending 6 billion dollars to Pakistan and watching them burn out flag really doesn't inspire me much.
I must be missing it somewhere on the website, but where is there the link to send a direct email to Lawrence O'Donnell?
Twitter works well. I've even received answers. Most of these people don't bother with FB which is understandable.
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Let's conduct a short inventory of "Hope and Change":
1. Gitmo still open
2. More War's for oil (Libya)
3. Poverty at all time high (15.5%)
4. Gas and energy prices at all time highs
5. Unemployment at all time highs
6. Obama's job czar moving his own company's jobs to China (GE).
7. Government money going to bankrupt "clean energy" company so Biden can get a photo op.
8. 80% of recent college grads moving back home with mommy and daddy.
The list could go on, but you get my point.
If I was in charge of this mess I would (1) Blame it on someone else (2) Invoke class warfare to divert attention from my failures.
That is all, I must go for I am one of the few who still has a job.
After 27 years in the Corps the best leadership lesson I learned was to never blame your predecessor, or others, for the failures of your own Squad, Platoon, Company, or in this case, Country. The day you assume Command is the day you assume ALL responsibility. I don't care if GW was the worst President in History, the day Obama took office the name George Bush should have never been uttered again. If he doesn't provide the "Hope and Change" promised then hopefully the voters are not so "star struck" this time and he is judged by his administration's record. And don't tell me about all the great liberal social causes he has taken up, I could care less, as I am sure the millions of unemployed could care less.
kurt,
lets conduct a short inventory of the stated goals of the GOP:
1. crush Obama/hope he fails
2. cause his waterloo
3. demonize, disrespect and smear President Obama
4. GOP stalled, stomped their feet and back-peddled on things (individual mandate, tax cuts, ETC) that they have supported before Barack Obama became president.
5. under W. bush, GOP didn't say "no" or "hell no" for 6 years
6. the GOP gave bush all he asked for and more:
A. 2 wars unpaid for, one of them illegal
B. tax cuts for the rich
C. prescription drug coverage (medicare part D) not paid for
D. "no child left behind"
the economy didn't tank when President Obama took office. the "tanking" started months before Obama took office. then a year later, everyone found out that the economy was in worse shape than anyone knew or thought.
the republican party, history has shown, are the biggest deficit builders of all. W. bush didn't say "no" to any spending, and the GOP loves to blame the democrats for the deficit.
the republican party: they do not practice what they preach.
Blah Blah Blah....I thought I told you I didn't wan't to hear Bush's name again. By the way, of course the opposite party want's the White House back. Duh, Politics 101. I'm sure when GW was Prez you all sat around and said "I hope he gets a second term". I don't even know why I respond to your predictable rants, strait from MSNBC talking points.
i know its unpleasant to remember all the horrible things W. bush did. it is important for the bagger/republican party to remember how we got into this mess, and why it is taking so long to get out of it.
the great depression occured for the same reasons that our economy tanked in 2008. republicans were in power and did the same things then that they did for several years before 2008.
my talking points are not from MSNBC. i get information from all sources and draw my own conclusions.
i love to remind you of the ignorance and strategory of W. bush, and the truth of his administrations part in this economic mess.
you think just because you tell me not to mention W.'s name that i will abide?
Blah, blah, blah Translation: I got nothing. Kurt, for once your right. The opposing party DOES want the white house. The difference here, and not suprizing I have to spell it out for you is opposing parties DO NOT intentionally tank our economy in a major recession to regain power. Apparently the reichwingnuts DO think their supporters are dumb enough to buy their lies and feed off their disinformation but fortunately the rest of us do not.
Thanks John, It's refreshing to know that Suzette is not the only Left Wing Nut Job Kool Aide drinker in the house tonight. You and your party know nothing about running an economy. You do know a lot about destroying one though. Why didn't you losers do anything when you had both houses and the Oval Office? I know because they were to concerned with winning their next election. Your distortion of the facts will not sway the Millions and Millions out of work and on Food Stamps! How is that for "Hope and Change"?
kurt,
who destroyed this economy? W. bush, thats who. you are again conveniently forgetting who was president before Obama.
i will remind you that President Clinton had to clean up after 12 years of deficit building from reagan and H.W. bush, and when he left office, we had a surplus which W. bush promptly gave to the rich.
since nixon, the republican party has been the party of deficits, and the democratic presidents have had to take over and clean up. the economic mess that W. bush left this country in was/is HUGE. like the Great Depression, this will take years to crawl out of.
in order to get anything done (IF you have a "super" majority) is to have the democratic party vote in lockstep as the republicans love to do. the blue dog democrats are conservative on fiscal and other issues. also you need a super majority of more than just a "few" to get anything done. when democrats and repuublicans vote on a bill, they also think about their chances of re-election, of who has bought and paid for them.
it appears that the only time the republicans are conservative on the deficit, is when we have a democratic african american president.
suzzette....
I could spend a lot of time on all your comments, but for time's sake I will cut it short. You have no idea of what you're talking about.
seems to me that those you question have a hell of a lot "better" education. Sometimes "more" isn't better.
and you should thank your lucky stars for that. Remember, there is someone out there waiting for your job and will work for less..so when that next raise is offered, sometime in the next decade be sure to refuse it
look up 111th congress bills passed. Look up Obama's record of achievements during his administration.. the list goes on and on...
health care? vacation time? sick benefits..like sick days off? cost of living ( I mean cost of dying) raises..Bet your booties your employer has a life insurance policy on you and believe me they have no intention of sharing it with your family
Folks- Suzette enjoys framing issues to facilitate her point of view- even if facts may give way to innuendo. Example- she list 4 thinks Bush II did. To put in perspective, she also has been on record before thinking the Rs in Congress should support Obama more heavily. So- let's look at her claims- putting a Bipartisian lens on them. The items she blames Bush II for, and the Senate vote in parans- NCLB (91-8), Tax Cut (62-38), Rx (55-44), Afghan (98-0) and Iraq (77-23).
Right, wrong or indifferent- it seems a little tacky to ask for bi-partisianship on one hand, and then blame the other side when they worked both sides of the aisle to get a compromise solution.
rusty,
i do not "enjoy" framing issues to facilitate my point of view. i am clearly stating/writing what i see as the truth in a certain situation.
eric cantor and john boehner are saying that the jobs bill is not being offered in a "bi-partisan spirit". CNN and the Associated Press are leaving the impression that repubs want "very much" to work with the white house, but they are unable to as the white house is being "too partisan".
this is absolutely false, as the white house has been trying to work with the republicans, bringing things to the table that BOTH parties have supported in the past, and ideas that REPUBS HAVE BROUGHT TO THE TABLE ALL ON THEIR OWN. but that of course has been in the past, because the repubs have brought absolutely NOTHING to the table while Obama has been president, and they have even struck down ideas that had strong republican support IN THE PAST, (individual mandate) but now that Obama is President, these republican ideas have absolutely no republican support, because as they themselves have said, "why would we do that now (pass the jobs bill) and give Obama a win"?
the republicans love to complain about the media. they love to say how horribly unfair the republicans are treated by the media. but political pundits and reporters are not making a historical connection to the repubs obstructionism, they are reporting on it like this is normal behavior, that this is how the game is and has always been played; that presidents always find it inconceivable to get votes in a bi-partisan fashion (to get votes from the opposing party).
this is not how the game was played under W. or reagan, because the democrats did not/do not embrace the extreme notion of "complete and utter obstructionism" like the repubs are so obviously doing since Barack Obama took office.
your last sentence just makes my point. the democrats worked with bush. they did not obstruct and filibuster the way the republicans are doing today. these republicans will not work with President Obama to get anything done for our country. they have said what they are going to do, we have all heard them say it in one way or another. the republicans have said what their main goal is in more ways than one. they have said it, and i believe it because of how they are treating our President.
there is absolutely no precedent for the partisan way the republicans are governing.
of course, we have never had an african american President before.
Of course Ds worked with Bush. That's what made your above statement sound a little foolish- but you are seeing the truth now it sounds like. The Rs worked with Clinton (ie- NAFTA, Welfare reform, income tax increases accompanied with capital gains tax decrease, repeal of Glass-Steagell, etc). As I recall, neither of those Presidents started every speech with- "Do you know what those Rs (Ds) are doing now...". Neither of them allowed the Legislative Leader of their Party declare, "We won!!, We'll write the bills." It is rumored that before the Rs took over the House, Obama had never even met with Boehner.
In a very real sense, Obama was done a disservice when he was given 60 votes after the election. He, and Ds, took that to mean they didn't need the Rs, and they proceeded to govern that way. Now that they've tossed as much poison into the bipartisan well as possible, they are attempting to drink from it. They don't like it one bit, and neither do the Rs.
LOVE this Rewrite segment in particular - but.....   Are you kidding me?? A pre-video commercial paid for by ExxonMobil touting the disastrous Tar Sands project tacked on this piece and your show's website???? C'mon, O'Donnell - you can do better than that!!!
Yea, it should be a Solyndra solar panel flying through the air on it's way to the dump.
that space junk that you taught will not be flying anymore. You either want this country to succeed or you don't!
Thankful Mom....
Were you drinking when you wrote that? If so, you need to cut back.
notice that they refer to "north America" not the USA because the oil is in Canada.
Gee- does the Tar Sands in Canada support any USA jobs? Pics I've seen of it show tons of US built and exported equipment.
The only thing republicans know of poor,middle class or those without insurance is what they read in newspapers or hear on TV.They KNOW wealthy people, corporate execs and lobbyists.The ones that line their pockets,that take them on golf outings and contribute to their campaign funds.When they use their catch phrases like this is what "The American People"want,their talking about the people they KNOW,not middle America.During election time they go to middle class bars and resturaunts shaking hands telling them how much they can do for them,once elected they stick it in their @$$. The only class warfare has been waged against the poor and middle class for the last 30 to 40 yrs by republicans and their wealthy benefactors.
You are very misinformed. Look it up anywhere. The richest people in Government are all Dems. They could give a rats ass about you.
Joca...
When I read post like yours, it really makes me feel sorry for you, being so brainwashed that I don't know if there is any hope for you. I can't even bring myself to make a joke out of it with you thinking that all Republicans are wealthy and live off you poor people. Most Republicans are just normal people like you and I. We've raised a bunch of idiots over the last 20 years and they just don't have any faith in themselves that they are responsible for their walfare and success. My employer grew up in a small house with 3 brothers and they didn't even have closets. He was in highschool before he received his first pair of glasses. He looked for opportunities and worked hard and now is making the million dollars a year. He works at least 6 days a week and most of the time he is busy on the 7th day. Can you say that about yourself? Are you putting out the effort to be successful? You may not make that kind of money, but if you stop listening to these nuts that just want to keep you down, start believing in yourself and look for every way that you can improve your life, it will come to you. If you sit on your butt and gripe because you don't have a successful financial life, then you will just have to grin and bear it. Most people end up close to where they aim. Get up tomorrow morning and tell yourself you aren't going to put up with a hopeless life anymore. You're going to make a success of it.
Well said Sixpac. Sooooo Tired of people blaming everyone else for their problems. I am not perfect, my mother raised 4 kids on two waitress jobs and refused to ever take a handout. Me and my sister are fairly succesful now due to hard work and determination. My two brothers didn't fare so well. Thankfully there were rich people along the way who gave me a job. The average American want's a handout like Joca. People like that will always blame others and try to bring them down before they get off their azzes and do something. I have a lot of respect and admiration for immigrants who come here with nothing and become succesful, I never here them complaining about rich people, because they bust their butts to become rich too!
how right you are in your summation. The biggest problem here is that the right base is so ignorant that they actually don't know what is best for them. Sad but true. Many people here in rural Pa. talk about the cuts coming and actually blame Obama. They say" Obama wants to take my money". I say to them, what money? and their reply is money that I'll have next year or the following year. Why do they think they'll have more when every program they need and utilize is on the chopping block. The biggest problem and lie is that they all are watchers of Fix News and believe every word. It doesn't mean anything to them when you try to show a graph or chart because they don't know how to read it. Their local newspapers run headlines all about the sports especially high school. They don't have an inkling about what the real news is until they go to WIC or LHEAP and have been told that funds have run out and then of course they blame Obama....go figure...
Sixpic&kurt you two and your I'm better the you attitudes are exactly whats wrong with this country today.There are poor in this country as there will always be.Everyone cant be as smart as you two think you are.I also came from a poor family,my father had polio but still managed to hold a full time job.Istarted working on truck farms at 12 yrs.old at 35 cents an hour so my family would not have to buy me school clothes.Later I worked for a printing firm where I worked for almost 50 yrs minus time in the military.My wife and I had six kids one of which by the way is wealthy and doesnt whine at tax time.I thought Ihad a pretty successful life until you two told me I didnt.I now draw social security and have access to medicare.Two programs that republicans have been trying to kill since their inception.I may not have a college education but I do know when someone is trying to screw me.So dont feel "sorry"for me,Idont want or need your pity.
I don't feel sorry or pity for you, only for the 150 million americans you look at with disdain because they happen to be successful.
I see the infestasions of the trolls have arrive, so there will be no positive conversation here. The tea bag scourge is taking over and civilized behavior is dead.
joca41...
I don't think I'm smarter than you. I read my comment as well as yours and I never implied you were not smart. I did say you thought all Republicans were wealthy and wanted to live off you poor people. I'm aware there will always be poor people and some aren't as smart as maybe we think we are and some are just not motivated to improve their lives. I guess I was trying to give poor people a little motivation to realize they didn't have to remain poor if they were willing to take it upon themselves to work toward a goal of leaving their poor lives behind. You don't have to be smart to be self sufficient, but you do have to have the attitude that you are responsible for your life and not blame your shortcomings on others. Of course, there are many exceptions I feel we are morally responsible to provide as a nation the necessary living standards to allow a person feel worthwhile. If a person can't help themselves, I feel we should help them, but we have too many that can but will not help themselves and fall prey to the belief they have no choice and blame it on people that are successful. And by successful, I only mean providing for you and your family. You don't have to be wealthy to be successful is what I'm saying. Not all Republicans are rich with wealthy friends. You pretty much said that. Believe me, you could have replaced Republican with the word Democrat and it would be just as untrue. We have people on this blog that are sitting back with a nice check every month which I'm sure they deserve and constantly criticize my view point on this. In my opinion, they should spend their time trying to motivate people to become all they can, but instead they tend to motivate people to blame all their problems on others. From your original post, you came across as a poor person who had a tough time of it. You got 35 cents an hour, you rascal. I only made 25 cents an hour. Good for you. It was a long day too, wasn't it? That nickel coke and nabs were the good ole days for me. Chopping that wood and gathering up that fat lighter in the woods to start the stove until we got a coal stove. It was cold in the morning. In fact, it was cold during the night. It was hot in the fields in the summer. I'm very familiar with these things. I'd go back there in a heartbeat if I could. My great grandfather and I would walk over a mile through the woods to start the fire in the stove at the church before service. Yes, life has been hard for many over the years, but these days, too many have not known what it meant to work yourself out of poverty and have settled for a government to provide you with the very basics of life's needs and complain that they aren't providing enough for you and what gets me is people on this vine promote that type of thinking instead of trying to promote self-reliance and call me a troll.
kurt, sixpick, marc, rusty,
you all think that just because we think the rich should pay more in taxes (democrats and repubs) that we hate the rich.
i would rather see the rich pay more in taxes than make cuts to programs that help the needy. and if tax cuts create jobs, WHERE ARE THE JOBS? the repubs have had 10 years to prove that this theory works, WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
that was all we heard from the repubs before they took the house, now all we hear about is the deficit and cuts to programs that people count on. fema can't be funded for disaster relief without making cuts. the deficit can't be raised without making cuts. the gov't can't be funded without making cuts. the biggest deficit builders of all, the republican party, all of a sudden are worried about spending.
they are using the deficit to try to get rid of programs that they hate-social security, medicare, medicaid.
i wish they were more concerned about jobs, and not the deficit.
the repubs are holding the american people hostage with their obstructionism.
Suzette- headlines in Saturday's paper in my hometown (not a conservative paper), cited economic study showing that Obama's jobs plan would do very little, if any.
Instead of asking the rich to pay more, why don't you, and Obama, ask everyone to pay. Spread across everyone, wouldn't the increase be much smaller? That was Clinton's strategy back in the ealy 90's, and liberals like to point to that as a success. Ask me, you, and all the other taxpayers to pony up to pay for everything.
I think that some honesty must begin to creep in those people like you who comment on the world and national economy.
The democratic governments around the world are not in control of their respective countries, world wide corporations are.
You often hear that corporations are sitting on their money, not hiring, reinvesting in this country because of uncertainty Give me a break, corporations are investing in Russia is that country stable, in India, I've been keeping track of the political and ecomonic problems that exist there. Just go around the world and track corporate investment to determine the real relationship of government to corporations and you will come to only one concludion, corporations control the world, via S & P and all the others. Today business has become a deity for many. That is they believe that whatever is good for business is good for the world. I don't think so. If world governments are ever going to take the steps to improve the living conditions of their people both today and in the future ( I mean the starving child of today influences the world of the child that are born tomorrow)., they are going to have to get control of these corporations not starve their populations. Hungry people start "riots" they will fight back. That is what happened in England, despite the attempt by the media to make those demonstrations something else. Read the following and then have your researchers find out how many people Cisco has hired here in the United States.
. Cisco Systems Inc. says it will invest $1 billion in Russia over the next decade, plus $100 million in venture capital. Cisco also will establish a "dedicated physical presence" in a planned technology hub outside Moscow, touted as "Russia's Silicon Valley."
"Simply put, we're all in," said Cisco CEO John Chambers at the company's San Jose headquarters Wednesday, with the Russian president beaming by his side. "We will be great partners. We will try never to let you down."
Cisco does not share the doubts expressed in many quarters about Russia's high-tech potential and Medvedev's drive to modernize the former empire.
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paula watson....
You're right about large corporations having too much control over our government as well as other governments around the world. What can you do? Can you stop a prostitute from selling her body or can you stop a john from buying it? I know that is a crude comparison, but it is a an accurate analogy. You may be able to curtail corporations effect here, but the corporation will move to a more favorable environment. When a country is so dependent on the corporation for economic reasons, the corporation has to be treated as a queen, not the prostitute it is. In the real world, that is the way it is, and I do not know how to make a queen out of a prostitute. Governments tend to be prostitutes, as well. If you can't control your own government, how are you expected to control other governments. Every one is looking for a piece of the pie, the whole pie if possible. Unfortunately, if the USA wants to play the game, we must treat the corporation like a queen in order to keep her at home understanding competition for her attention is always knocking at the door to take her away. Cisco is not hiring, but firing to the tune of 10,000 from what I can see and moving every which way but our way. We can't put our efforts to make sure every child on earth is fed until we make sure every child in the USA is fed, so we have to do what is necessary to provide the environment to attract the coporation instead of repelling it. I may not like it but, that's the real world for me.
1rst of all the reason why no major advancements in taking on black causes is because black people cant stick together. you have the black person who goes against anything that identifies him as being black, you have the black person who just doesnt like other black people doing better then them, you have the slave who still thinks being articulate and dressing well is acting white, then you have the ones that complain about what they dont have but dont get there lazy asses up to get it! we never stick together on nothing we should be ashamed of our selves honestly. so we vote him out and vote in rick perry. we will be voting against our self interest. we will be voting out obama at the same time voting out social security,medicaid,medicare,and voting in more money for major coorperations,less attention on the middle class and below. so he is not a great president but he is far from the worse. the econy actualy has grown our gdp is in the positive maybe not as positive as we want it but everything was in the neg before he became president now its in the positive and slowly climbing. all the republicans are talking about policy wise is the same thing that got us in this mess. so vote against him and look dumb because he's not the best but he is a hell of alot more in our corner then the alternative. intead of being so quick to respond with hate and or dislike for him personaly take time to breath and think rationaly if that is possible for some of you even if the tea party would see that the very republicans that you want to replace him are not even in your self interest. tea party wants small government but since 2010 replicans have pass laws like in florida for mandatory drug testing for federal employees, in other states passing laws prohibiting womens right to choose, passing laws saying who americans can love and or marry,passing laws that only benifit the rich. all republican states have taken money out of eduaction to give to the wealthies who have not created jobs who have not been loosening up lending but have been making record profits in the tens/hundreds of billions. so again he's not the best dont allow your cultural feelings, dont allow your (for blacks) i dont want to associate with being black feelings, or he is to articulate so he cant be black feelings or what ever feelings you have force you black,red,yellow,brown, dem,republican, tea party, coffe party or what ever party to vote against your self interest. dont vote your feeling vote who will be in your corner more ............ something to think about
absolutely...Mr. Obama represents one too many blacks employed and educated to boot. The far right still can't stand it that a black man and his educated family live in "their" white house.
Janet Anderson....
Obama would not be in office had it not have been for the white votes. The far right are like the far left and there is no reason with either. I find your remark that of a far left and racial. At the very least, it is to promote racial tension and is not true of most Americans.
She is obviously a racist.
Janet Anderson....
I wouldn't mind seeing Herman Cain, who is a true black man, in the White House. Maybe that will help you deal with your racism.
bravo!!! Ms. Warren. Spoken like a true "for the people" politician. My best wishes for you and your state on your election. We need more like you, Mr. Sanders and others who speak for the people.
Janet Anderson...
Elizabeth Warren is a communist and either you are too young or too ignorant to recognize it.
sixpick,
educate yourself on the difference between communism as we know it today, and what it was meant to be.
democrats are liberal, socialism is liberal.
republicans are conservative, communism is conservative.
"the conservatives in the united states are in the same position as the communists in the 30's, and for the same reason: their revolutions failed, unbelievably so, but they refuse to admit what went wrong".
communism has very little to do with marx, though marx and engels did see commmunism as the last stage of their socialist revolution. the meaning of the word communism changed after 1917 when lenin and his bolshevik party seized power in russia. the bolsheviks changed their name to the communist party, and then installed a REPRESSIVE single party regime devoted to the implematation of socialist policies, which were never implemented.
the russian people trusted lenin to lead the upheaval against the Tsars. in 1921 under the leadership of lenin, the soviet union abandoned socialism.
communism today is not the last stage of socialism. it is a state in which workers are controlled by the ruling elite which accrue benefit and privilege by exploiting the working class.
this is exactly what the republican party is doing. keeping the rich "rich" and taking services from the poor.
you are the ignorant one.
socialism and democracy are liberal.
communism (as we know it today) and republicans are conservative.
conservatives/republicans do have more in common with communism as we know it today, the communism of russia, china, cambodia and other countries, than does socialism or democracy (the democratic party).
The problem I'm having with this class warfare nonsense is that the Klu, Klux, Klank, Republican, Tea Party Drinkaholics are winning the propaganda war! How could one explain the fact that blacks/the unemployed/economically deprived people are lining up against President Obama blaming him for all of Americas' ills. They either don't see the message/don't get the message/are too dumb to know the difference just like the Republiklank Amnesiatic Tea Orgy Sippers! Perhaps it's the overwhelming amount of money being spent by the right wing and their innovative techniques using everything and anything even the soul of GOD to propagandize their class warfare message to a people who have been taken advantage of/beaten/jailed/denied rights/lied to for generations by those in power! QUICO!
Actually they are getting smart and their vote won't be taken for granted anymore. I bet the racisit DumboRats can't stand the thought of black people thinking for themselves and not doing what the man (DumboRat Party) tells them to think. Like all americans, black people are a hell of a lot worse off then they were three years ago and they are not going to take it anymore.
Jose....
You need to lay off the tequila.
I don't think that you can say Barack's speech in Cincy is rewrite of Warren's speech at all and I don't think you are doing your homework if you think it is. This speech was given in Ohio, where we are pretty much in an open state of class warfare due to attacks on the middle class by the current Republican administration. Boehner lame attempt to use that term for a tax bill is just an attempt to co opt the dialogue that is going on in Ohio and has been since February. Regardless of what you may think of the speech it is appropriate for the Ohio audience he was addressing based upon what is occurring here. Warren is great, but no one needs to copy her on any class warfare statements. In Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio we are in a huge fight. Apparently Barack saw the Ed show from columbus last week even if you guys missed it.
Victoria....
You would think our president would be stepping and trying to ease the situation in New York, but he's out trying to drum up more radicals to get their marching boots on instead. He's really bringing us together, isn't he? After all Goldman Sachs PAC was his 2nd biggest contributor in the 2008 election with $1 million dollars worth of donations. Rohn Emmuel championed the TARP. Can you not see what is happening and where it is really coming from?
right, sixpick, like the president could really do something to bring the republicans and democrats (the american people) together. the republicans don't want the president to bring everyone together. they want to continue to persue their main goal in life: making President Obama a one term president.
how would that look? everyone getting along while the repubs are messing with individual and electoral voting rights, taking away collective bargaining rights, repealing health care reform, doing everything they can to "stop the Obama agenda" (justice clarence thomas' wife).
you all don't want our President to bring us together. you don't want to see the repubs compromise or come to the table in the spirit of bi-partisanship, of getting things done for the american people.
like the rest of the bagger/repub party, you approve of how our President is being treated.
Suzette- it's always up to the Leader to decide who he wants to get along with. If Obama wants their input and values their opinion, even if he disagrees, he should be able to accomplish that. If a CEO of a company doesn't get respect from the workers, the board needs to determine if respect is needed.
The solution the board should put into place, according to your line of thought, is to go out and fire and replace all of the employees and try to hire new ones that they think will get along with and respect the CEO.