It won't be because of my vote.
"Outside groups fuel Brown-Warren ad war; Negative messages get heavy TV play" November 11, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
If you believe the barrage of ads, the 2012 Senate race will pit the oil company pawn against the campus radical, the first shots in a race that some strategists say could generate $60 million in television spending....
The amount pf money spent on politics while the American people suffer is a scandal.
Elizabeth Warren is among the first Senate challengers to be the subject of a negative ad, a $596,000 buy that went up yesterday as part of a package of commercials targeting candidates in five states. The ads have been purchased by Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a political committee founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove....
That can only help her.
Ken Goldstein, president of Kantar Media, Campaign Media Analysis Group, said “Massachusetts is going to be one of those Armageddon Senate races.’’
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Polls show that Warren, who must still win her party’s nomination, is not as familiar to voters as Senator Scott Brown.
See: Sunday Globe Special: State Poll
The state Republican Party has tried to depict her as someone outside the mainstream, producing an online video calling her the “Matriarch of Mayhem’’ after she said in an interview that she created “much of the intellectual foundation’’ for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
That's a little arrogant to say her thoughts were behind the movement.
The ad that launched yesterday continues on that theme, showing images of protesters alongside Warren’s face.
Can only help her since over 60% of the American people (more in Mass.) support the protesters.
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"Warren walks fine line on Occupy movement; Backs message, avoids close ties" October 26, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
Warren’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric has paralleled almost perfectly many of the grievances voiced by protesters in New York, Boston, and elsewhere. The striking similarities suggest Warren could become the first senator whose candidacy is driven by the emerging Occupy Wall Street movement, just as Florida Republican senate candidate Marco Rubio was propelled by the Tea Party in 2010.
I think Wall Street protesters are beyond politics. They realize both parties are rank. This is an agenda-pushing attempt to define and dilute the protests through politics.
But Warren’s relationship with the Occupy Wall Street movement has been hard to pin down. She has embraced it to the extent that it comports with her message. Yet she has been careful to avoid public images of herself among the tents and has stopped short of taking the protesters’ side during occasional clashes with police.
Warren has visited the tent city in Boston just once, without advertising it on her public schedule, avoiding television cameras in a highly unpredictable environment. Her top opponent for the Democratic nomination, Alan Khazei, beat her to Dewey Square by almost two weeks.
Khazei quit.
In an interview published yesterday on the Daily Beast website, Warren took her most aggressively supportive tone to date, claiming substantial credit for the writings and views that Occupy Wall Street protests have amplified across the country.
“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,’’ she told the website. “I support what they do.’’
That's good enough for me.
But in an interview Friday with the Globe, she answered less forcefully when asked whether she considered herself part of the movement.
“I’ve been speaking out against Wall Street for a very long time,’’ she said.
“I’m not going to stop,’’ she continued. “That is the movement.’’
She also emphasized that the demonstrators must respect the rule of law.
Warren spoke at length about her encounter with a police officer who was guarding the protest. The officer, she said, told her that he sympathized with the protesters because he was also part of the “99 percent’’ of Americans who are not among the wealthy.
That's what makes the police so disappointing in this country. Fuck your unions, you f***ing thugs. You should be crossing over and joining, helping to defend. To protect and serve, remember?
Warren recalled how the officer said he wanted to “coach the protesters to make sure they were doing it in a way that stayed within the law.’’
Why should they when the authorities do not?
Republican Scott Brown walked a similar fine line with the Tea Party movement, which initially embraced him as the critical 41st vote against President Obama’s health care plan, but has since soured on him as he has crossed party lines. Brown’s comments have expressed support for the Tea Party’s fiscal conservatism, but he has avoided attending some rallies.
The Occupy movement still carries great risk for Democrats, who are wary of embracing the volatile protests and some of its more radical elements, yet eager to show they are in touch with the nation’s economic woes.
They are the BIGGEST COWARDS I have ever seen.
One of Bill Clinton’s former pollsters who surveyed demonstrators in New York has warned Democrats that a close association with the protesters could alienate moderate voters.
The protesters are moderate voters!
At least one Occupy participant said he understood Democrats’ reluctance to embrace the movement.
“If I were a politician, I’d be tentative about it, too,’’ said Bill Lewis, 59, a computer scientist from Cambridge who has been attending the Boston protest for two weeks.
Lewis pointed to the range of activity and people at the encampment, a mix that would not fit into an easy political narrative.
Despite the best efforts of the propaganda paper!
It’s also not a given that protesters will embrace Warren. Lewis and others said there is little talk of her there....
A poll conducted earlier this month by Douglas Schoen, who has conducted polls for both Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, warned in a recent Wall Street Journal column that Democrats should be cautious about the Occupy movement. In an interview with the Globe, he said he would give Warren the same advice.
“She’s going to be in a close, competitive election with Scott Brown,’’ Schoen said. “If she needs to go to the North Shore, the South Shore, Western Massachusetts looking for votes, I wouldn’t say tying in to Occupy Boston is something I’d recommend to her.’’
I WOULD! That's straight from the horses' mouth!
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Third Party Phonies
That's why you can flush anything Schoen says.
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But you know who you do have to tie into to win elected office in AmeriKa:
"Brown criticizes consulate protest; Senator says he stands with Israel in antiterror fight" November 07, 2011|By Matt Rocheleau, Globe Correspondent
Senator Scott Brown yesterday denounced Friday evening’s sit-in protest at the Israeli consulate in Boston.
“This group of protesters has a poisonous message which needs to be loudly refuted,’’ Brown, a Massachusetts Republican, said in a statement. “Israel is a friend and ally to the United States. It was shocking to hear the protestors chanting anti-Israel slogans in support of the terrorist-backed intifada uprising, which has created so much misery and death in Israel.’’
Rather than describe the graphic sex acts Brown is engaged in I'll let you use your own imagination. I'm speechless on the slant.
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And the poisonous message?
Brown’s statement included a link to a YouTube video that showed about 20 demonstrators sitting in the lobby of the Israeli consulate at Park Plaza in downtown Boston, shouting chants including: “Hey hey, ho ho, Israeli apartheid’s got to go’’; “Occupy the consulate, not Palestine’’; and “Militarization is a crime.’’
That's all?
In the video, Boston police are shown escorting protesters out of the building, as the demonstrators chant, “We will be back.’’
In his statement, Brown said: “There should be no mistaking which side America is on in the fight against terror, and I want to make it clear that I stand with Israel.’’
He just won the election.
Related:
The U.S. Senate's Chief Brownnoser to Israel
Brown's Nose Buried Deep
He's buried something up there.
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The Boston protest came after Israel’s navy intercepted two small boats carrying about two dozen pro-Palestinian activists of several nationalities on Friday, according to the Associated Press. The vessels that tried to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip were towed to a port north of Gaza, AP reported.
No one was injured and the 22 activists are expected to be deported from Israel, according to AP reports....
Gee, did the AmeriKan media ever keep that quiet! I had to read it in a Globe story on page B3.
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Warren's concession speech:
"Warren rallies Senate campaign forces" November 14, 2011|By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren drew about 1,000 supporters who pledged to work for her campaign during a volunteer event held in Roxbury today....
After she spoke, Warren responded to questions from reporters about comments she made in an interview televised today relating to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Republicans had criticized her for defending what she called a “nuanced response” to the escalating situation from President Obama.
You mean nonexistent program, right?
The State Republican party, echoing language used by several Republican presidential candidates, called for a more muscular approach.
“What is needed right now is not nuance, but a clear, consistent and unmistakable message from the United States that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable and won’t be tolerated,” said Nate Little, the executive director of the state party, in a statement.
Warren would not say directly how far she would go to stop Iran from building a bomb. “What you do is you try to build the right coalition in the region and I think that’s what the president is trying to do,” she said.
“All Americans recognize the seriousness of the situation and how it is that a nuclear Iran could destabilize the region,” she added. “The president has been working on foreign policy issues using all of the tools available to him.”
That's not good enough for AIPAC.
Before speaking with reporters, Warren shook hands and then addressed the crowd for about a half hour, telling the story of her upbringing in Oklahoma and stressing her campaign themes, including her assertion that the American middle class has been left behind.
“About a generation ago, we lost our way,” she said.
After that, America turned into a nation that says “I got mine. The rest of you are on your own,” she said.
Several times, she employed President Bill Clinton’s rhetoric, saying that people who “work hard and play by the rules” deserve an opportunity to succeed....
Don't quote Clinton. That doesn't help.
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Also see: Warren and Brown's War of Words
Why Warren For Senate?
She's got my vote.
