Which card do I play today? That's Elizabeth Warren ... How dare people ask her what she was doing listing herself as Native American without having any proof? Don't they think she's a capable, strong woman? She's going from bad to worse on this.

Unless there is evidence Warren has been selectively highlighting aspects of her ancestry for personal gain (e.g., financial stipends earmarked for Native Americans), I'm not sure there is a "story" here. America has a lot of people with "mixed" backgrounds.

All you need to know is that it took over a week for Warren to give us this version of "the truth"....Guess this one worked best with the focus group.

If Scott Brown had done anything like this, the left would be calling for his "scalp" claiming he was attempting to get jobs set aside for minorities. Granny's excuse is extremely lame, as is her lament about the high cost of education while she and her husband combined are pulling down $600K plus per year from Harvard, not to mention her boast to have established the intellectual foundation for the Occupy anarchists while she is firmly entrenched in the 1%. Perhaps her new campaign theme can be Cher's hit from the 60's with the politically incorrect title-"Half Breed." As the songbird said, "Give her a feather she's a Cherokee!"

The molehill is officially a mountain. Unfortunately for Prof. Warren she is adding to the pile.

This woman is an insane fraud. Do you people hear what she says?

Oh please!

Sorry Ms Warren, I'm not buying this explanation. You completely lost me when you deflected the questions and criticism by playing the feminist card. Just be honest and candid with the voters - thanks.

The problem for Ms. Warren is that there is no good answer for her conduct, at least no good honest answer. She is what genuine Native Americans call a " box-checker ", someone who really doesn't identify with that heritage but who "checks" the Native American box on various applications in order to gain an undeserved advantage. This frequently includes precious scholarship money designed to go to Native Americans who identify with a tribe. It also includes jobs at schools anxious to boast about their " diversity ". She is obviously a smart person, but she is struggling to find a good answer when the only honest explanation available to her is that she is a box-checker and that is a bad thing.

Elizabeth, why don't you just tell the truth -- that you thought it might give you a little extra edge in the Cosmo centerfold competition. But Scotty won the prize.

It would be nice if the article would've pointed out that her listing in the directory makes no mention of her Native American roots--just that she's a "minority." Imagine being black and showing up at a function looking to discuss issues related to being a minority in a historically white-dominated profession. You meet Warren and she tells her charming anecdote of her grandmother and the Cherokee... Would you have any respect for this person?

Well, let's see: woman - check! liberal democrat - check! feminist - check! crusading social reformer - check! victim - check! fraud - ...

Can you imagine what would happen to scott brown on this issue if the roles were reversed and brown was challenging warren? The democrats and news media would have a field day skewering a republican who claimed he was minority. Warren committed a serious immoral act and got caught when scrutinized in her run for a high profile senate seat.

The question is do you have indian blood or not? Yes or no. She has it. There's no line asking "How much indian blood?"

All of us have African blood too, but it would be creepy if everyone checked off "African American" because of it.

Warren claims "minority" status when it is useful, then discards it once she's a success. She is so caught up in her "heritage" that it takes a major research undertaking to find even a scintilla of actual evidence to indicate a POSSIBLE tie to an Indian heritage. She's so proud of her heritage, and such a compassionate person that she's given.....exactly how much to Indian charities over the years? Now she claims the whole thing was an attempt to "network" yet the evidence of any actual effort in this regard is unattainable. Warren must think voters are as foolish as the Harvard people who, with no evidence, touted her as a "minority". Funny how one, corrupt, decision can come back to haunt someone. Karma is a bi--- Ms. Warren, eh?

This whole tempest in a teapot wastes time. There are important issues to discuss- the economy,foreign policy among others . Mr Brown seems content to involve himself in petty issues.

Listed herself as a minority in directories of law professors in the hopes of networking with other "people like me"... Being from Oklahoma and actually being a member of the Cherokee tribe I can only laugh. People like her are all over Oklahoma. NONE are Indians, but all love to boast about having "Native American" roots. All are too stupid to even realize that Cherokees don't call themselves "Native Americans", they call themselves Cherokees, Indians or Americans... Someone of her age would have grown up in a time when calling an Indian a "Native American" would have been an insult as if they were less American than other people. As for her BS about simply trying to connect with others that shared her heritage (Wanna-be-Indian), that really isn't that difficult to do. There is a organization that REAL Indians in graduate school know about called American Indian Graduate Center. I'm close to her age and used that center when I was in law school, but then for her that wouldn't have been possible because unlike the places she was seeking employment under the guise of being an Indian, the AIGC actually verifies your tribal affiliation. She has none. The fact is this woman has no shame. She was lying so that she could use affirmative action which was very prevalent when she was trying to get into school and get her first job. Now she has been caught, but rather than just admit she lied and apologize she has to start piling on more lies. If she had confessed to her lies sooner one could simply put it down to being young and foolish, at this point with the continued lies and denial she really should withdraw from the race and slink back into obscurity.

Actually you are completely wrong. She made the claim to being Cherokee. The only way to gain tribal membership to the Cherokee Nation is to trace back your history to a Cherokee that was on the Dawes Rolls that the US government used to register Cherokees in the late 19th and early 20th century. She cannot do that, the claim her campaign team made that her great great great grandmother O.C. Sarah Smith was a Cherokee is bogus. I looked that name up on the Dawes Rolls and there is none listed. And these rolls do not only list the actual Cherokees but also list people that claimed they were but were not believed to be actual Cherokees. There is no O.C. Sarah Smith on the list. She is a liar.

The American Indian Graduate Center - I see is in in Albuquerque, NM. I used to live in Gallup and I've seen all of the nasty stuff that goes on when people have to argue back and forth about how much Indian blood one person or family has vs. how much another has. For those on the cusp, it was always a matter of trying to qualify for BIA medical and then housing through the Tribe which receives grant money from the Feds. I'm not sure what that has to do with Elizabeth Warren. She does not fit into the category that you're talking about here and you know it. To throw around such nasty language tells me you have other issues going on. Warren didn't lie about anything. If she was told by her family that she had Indian roots and if she naturally believed them and took at least some degree of pride in the fact that she has a more diverse background, isn't it possibly a good thing for her to carry some of that perspective out into the world of the dominant culture? You've got issues. Do you buy into the notion (like Brown apparently does) that the only way a woman or a cultural minority can get anywhere is through affirmative action? Would you like to see some kind of "degree of blood line" test for African Americans to see if their family members have "suffered enough" in the past to be worthy of consideration? Check yourself.

Giermund, you sound like you work for her campaign. Warren was very specific in her story. Unless you are a member of the Cherokee Nation you know nothing about how tribal cards are issued. If you go to a BIA office in Oklahoma they do not issue you a card unless you first show them the tribal card issued by the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation is very clear about who is and who is not eligible for membership in the tribe, and while I feel someone with only 1/32 is too far removed to be considered a real Indian, the tribe has no official cutoff in terms of how much Indian blood one needs... they do however require that you prove your claim and this is something that she could not do. Her campaign has claimed her great great great grandmother O.C. Sarah Smith was the Cherokee in her past. It is a convenient lie to tell, however when you look up the name O.C. Sara Smith in the Dawes Rolls that the US government used to register Cherokees in the late 19th and early 20th century, you will not find that name listed. Again her campaign is engaged in lies. Now you have the audacity to assume I have some right wing hatred of affirmative action and women. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a Democrat, a social liberal and an actual minority (not a cultural minority)... I'm also disgusted when I see some white person trying to game the system whether they are a man or a woman. Lying is wrong and that is what she is doing.

Look, as far as I know you could be working for the Brown camp. Who knows? You certainly seem outraged by this issue at this time. You can be sure that the issue itself was brought forth to muddy the waters and to hurt the Warren campaign by forces that don't give a whit about Indian issues. You know its not about that. This is a nasty political stunt with roots in big money politics and big-business interests. I wouldn't care if the Democrat Nominee for Senator from Massachusetts was Carrot Top or Flavor Flav or a Banana Split. I would gladly vote for a sun-melted Dairy Queen Banana Split before I would vote for Scott Brown. The situation with Republicans taking over and maintaining a vice-like grip on the political, economic, and cultural lifeblood of this country has got to stop. By buying and anesthetizing the population with neoliberal market policies that don't work, the Republicans put us all in danger. By spending our precious time arguing over (no offence to your heritage) trivial issues like this while the man behind the curtain continues to erode all of our civil liberties and economic futures we fall prey to their parlor tricks. You want to give Rand Paul more power? Vote for Brown. Or sit it out because you're outraged. No one has accused Warren of "gaming the system" in any way. She has not received any favoritism, college admissions or employment from any of this. "Box checking" is a sore spot for you. Separate out your past experiences for a second and look at the facts here. Life is not going to be perfect and there is no perfect candidate.

A great many people seem to think it is terrible for Elizabeth Warren to be proud of her Native American heritage, because it's a mere 1/32. However, what would it say about how far we had come as a nation if someone said she/he was proud to be African American if he/she had only 1/32 of that heritage? Once upon a time we slaughtered Native Americans.