In their first face-to-face meeting, US Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, face delicate challenges: She must engage him on issues without seeming aggressive; he must fend off her charges without hurting his likable image.
Brown and Warren are set to take the stage in a Boston television station Thursday evening, stripped of their political handlers and media specialists. The debate, which will give the public its first unspun look at how they handle themselves, is scheduled to air live on WBZ-TV (Channel 4) and C-SPAN at 7 p.m.
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I agree. Warren can come across to some as a wonk and even preachy.
Ittk913 GUESS WHAT? WE NEED A POLICY "WONK" as you put it. SHE IS NOT PREACHY SHE IS CORRECT!
Policy is the most important aspect for any politician.Warren should do well as long as she sticks to the theme of helping working people.There are a lot of us out here getting the shaft from corporate America.Everywhere you go, someone's got there hands in your pocket. Warren knows how to articulate corporate greed.Don't give us too many statistics, give us stories. Talk about the wage that people live on, talk about the hours that people have to work, talk about how hard it is to live in America while waiting for a trickle that never arrives. Stick to stories and you will do fine.
Scott Brown's reputation as a polished politician is largely undeserved. For the last two years, he has ducked the press consistently. He's been very visible making jokes on conservative talk radio -- but when pressed on tough issues, he too often responds with written statements or has a spokesperson make his case. Prediction for tonight's debate: Scott Brown loses because he comes across as petty and defensive.
and Elizabeth Warren screaming you did not build your business, who never built a business and collects $375 thousand dollars for teaching ONE course twice a week understands WHAT.
Scott Brown does understand the working person...military person...and women...and did not use affirmative action to get where he is today.
Aw c'mon beantown, you know that Lizzy helped create an organization .. . . Occupy ****. . . or at least claims she did as a mentor. And her daddy was a janitor. . . after he suffered a heart attack and was apparently unable to return to a successful career. And she has managed to avoid a direct comparison between herself and what she claims for Sen. Brown - that he is out to support billionaires and millionaires. In other unmentioned words, Lizzy the Professor claims Scott Brown as supporting her and hers as members of the societal 1% so detested by the Occupiers. Seems a bit of logical disconnect there, say what?
The best of the best, is Elizabeth Warren. My heartfelt prayers are with Elizabeth today. I have FULL confidence in her excellent abilities. This woman knows the economy and her academic credentials and lovely persona are sterling. I hope she comes out with the confidence her huge career and education should bestow: According to Wiki: "On November 14, 2008, Warren was appointed by United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The Panel released monthly oversight reports that evaluate the government bailout and related programs. During Warren's tenure, these reports covered foreclosure mitigation, consumer and small business lending, commercial real estate, AIG, bank stress tests, the impact of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on the financial markets, government guarantees, the automotive industry, and other topics.[a] Consumer Financial Protection Bureau" Her qualifications take her to the Everest summit. I have met her three times and am in awe of her economic savvy, wonderful personality and gigantic understanding of all things related to our Great Recession of 2008 a bestowal upon our president who not only had to work with the clean up of an economic avalanche but did so with a Mack Truck of opposition in front of him. Elizabeth's knowledge was and is irreplaceable. On the social issues to boot she is rated four star. She believes in women controlling their own bodies, she believes in choice and she believes in the right of people to love whom they choose. She is picture perfect for the deep blue state Massachusetts proudly is! Good luck, Elizabeth, you are as I always say a price above rubies. You convinced me of your excellence a LONG time ago. I can only HOPE the Massachusetts electorate see it as I do.
and she is a lier who used Cherokee affirmative action to get ahead. Then she gets $375 thousand dollars per year to teach one course...(and they talk about Mitt Romney who creates jobs) and people wonder why the cost of college is going up. She is the top 1% and she did not pay any extra state tax...to help others.....or did she ever work 80hrs a week to start a new business....we need those who know what work is and how to create jobs...and as far as having control over your own body...great...just pay for your own contraceptives that cost $10.00 per month at Wal-Mart especially if you can afford to go to Europe like Sandra Fluke did with HER boyfriend this summer.
Why must it always be the case that the #1 concern for any female candidate is that she avoid coming off as "aggressive"? This is not a mere matter of abstract feminist principles. Once, several years ago, a number of voters in this state watched the gubernatorial debates and wrote off Shannon O'Brien as a virago. As a result, the people of Massachusetts and this nation have been burdened with the horror that is Mitt Romney.
Perhaps it was Tim Russert's question of why a 16-year old can't buy cigarettes and adults can't even get a tattoo and why did O'Brien support teenage abortion without parental consent. Her answer was to ask if he'd like to see her (ficticous) tattoo.
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Warren is clearly the one for us but Scott Brown will do the tear-jerking "up by the bootstraps-I came from nothing and I'm a regular guy" routine.He'll smile and look nonchalant while Warren shows concern for struggling people.
Warren, like Brown, uses the same type pf background. What concern did she show for the struggling people when she worked for the insurance company against the people?
very well put
Let's see if Lizzy the Harvard can persuade Massachusetts voters she knows about, cares about, and intends to act about Bay State issues, or whether she will come across during the first debate as a Harvard, throwing her national policy theories, love of the Occupy movement and its dogma, and national rather than state-level pronouncements about class at voters she wants to support her. Lizzy may be tres smart, trained since girlhood in the niceties of debating, but her attack ads directed at Sen.Brown have been preachy, self-righteous and offputting. She often seems plain shrewish, emoting as little personal warmth as a surgeon giving bad news to a scared family.
I am a voter that am voting for warren for one main reason...Brown is one of the phoniest blowhards I've ever seen on tv
At the debate Elizabeth Warren can't speak for herself. She used the debate to promote our "Entertainer in Chief", and tell MA (and the rest of the country) that the president always has Israel's back and that sanctions against Iran are working. . Israel and Iran do not think so, and neither should Americans.--She quoted the Boston Globe a few times, hoping that the Globe will bail her out of a very weak performance.