WORCESTER — As Elizabeth Warren makes her way through the restaurant, with its locally painted art and locally grown food, patrons set down their lattes to greet her.
Warren hugs one woman, pecks another on the cheek, shakes hands with an entire table. The crowd at NU Café, a popular hangout, seems to welcome her attention and the down-home drawl that could make you forget that she makes her living at a certain Cambridge law school.
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I love reading between the lines of these fawning Globe articles! Like how when greeting Warren, people "put down their lattes." Gotcha! No working-class Dunkin Donuts-drinking crowds for Elizabeth Warren, thank you. Warren prefers to mingle with the Starbucks, Venti-mocha-chai-spiced-latte crowd who worship her far-left Cambridge policies! The next stop in the article? A "meet and greet" with a union that's already endorsed her, including its $200,000 "business manager." Now, that's mingling with "the little guy," all right! If Elizabeth Warren wants to be a U.S. senator, I suggest she venture beyond the "cheese store" and staged union photo ops and actually try to meet some REAL PEOPLE. Oh, but I forgot: They're all voting for Scott Brown...
Granny says she's not afraid... Well, I am.... of HER!!! I work hard to take care of my family. I don't want an elitist liberal taking more of my hard-earned money and giving it to illegals, layabouts and union thugs...
She is a MAGNIFICENT candidate. Maybe she is the best we will ever have. Teddy was unique but this woman is NOT a politician. There is not a phony bone in her body. She is all policy excellent and knows it thoroughly. She is NOT bought. I loved her from day one as much as I love her now. And after talking with her and meeting her three time I can say she is the real deal and a LOVELY LOVELY person. Yesterday I had a chance to meet her husband as well. Likes attract likes. He is as nice and very very smart as she is. I was very impressed. I cannot say how much I root and support this woman as a candidate. The opposition in the final analysis is with big corporate behemoths and if you REALLY read his record he is not all that bipartisan. Republicans say anything, and LIE like a rug on EVERYTHING and anything the think they can get away with if the voters are unquestioning. To say that she is against Medicare is INANITY and a just plain LIE if one understands politics. Hey, guys Democrats are the one FOR keeping Medicare and Social Security not demolishing it like Romney, Ryan and the Republicans want to do. The Republican Party is NOT about any of you unless you are part of the 1%. When all is said and done Brown voted 70% with his own Republican party and will ultimately be beholden to them. They are NOT about most of you and neither is he. Elizabeth Warren I hope for your election every day. My price above rubies candidate is a GEM!
This is the kind of extreme, slanted, partisan rhetoric that has contributed so much to the divisive political climate.
Warren has no political experience and her resume is even more thin than was Barack Obama's in 2008; at least he spent a few years in his state legislature followed by a couple of stellar years showing up to (mostly) vote "present" in the US Senate.
Her one achievement on the national stage was to help create the CFPB, which is an overfunded monstrosity. 70% of its employees earn generous six figure salaries, and over 100 of them earn over $225,000 per year. They paid a student intern $43,000 per year. Their starting salaries are double the normal federal standard. They are funded directly by the Federal Reserve, a highly unusual arrangement which places them beyond the reach of Congressional committees which normally fund and oversee such agencies.
In Elizabeth Warren's world, this is how all Americans should live--cushy public lifetime jobs, generously funded by borrowing against the future.
We can't afford Elizabeth Warren. She might make a great MP over in the UK or on the continent; perhaps she should go teach at Oxford and run for office over there.
hooya... n rosen steps in to stand up for Lizzy the bankruptcy professor and maybe squaw from Harvard Law. . . rosen doesn't like it that scott brown voted a majority or so times with the GOP. . . that puts rosen among the idiot class, led by this granny with the red drape she dons for most photos, that thinks brown ought to vote with the democrats the majority of the time. . . why is there a two-party system... if the demomob gets its way, there would not be two parties, and lizzy wants to trundle herself off to washingtoin to see if she can help. . . a one party state... there were several of those during the 20th Century, and most of them went on what is known as the 'ashpile of history'. . . maybe lizzy and her party will join them. . .
nrosen..
did you ask granny about the asbestos suit she was part of? Where she helped that "big corporate behemoth" stiff their workers?
did you ask granny about LTV steel? another case where she helped that "big corporate behemoth" stiff their workers?
and... you do know that Granny and her Hubby are, infact the 1% she claims to hate so? She makes 340K, her hubby the same. 700K a year....and zero interest loans from Harvard...
That is the 1%... how can you trust her?
Last week I noticed a lot of "Warren for Senate" signs around Mattapan Square. But did Elizabet Warren visit the "Little People" there? Did she campaign there? Will she EVER visit there..You know, the people that she CLAIMS to represent? No, No, and No.
Prof. Warren's message may sell well with the unions and academics, but for the business people who actually create the jobs, her "help the little guy" image is very thin. You don't "help" the little guy by suing his employer, taxing him to death, and limiting his ability to compete through onerous regulations and paperwork.
Massachusetts is full of these academics who think they know more about business than do businesspeople, but they're wrong. Forty years of increasing debt and declining economic performance speaks for itself.
Warren may very well win the election, thanks to her fiery rhetoric and populist message. But we will all lose in the end to foreign competitors who keep getting better and better while we keep shooting ourselves in the foot.
Also, her "Likeability Factor" might improve if she went on Jay Leno, Jay Z, Letterman, and The View, like Barack Obama did. With plenty of loud band music, of course. For tough, informative intervews by those talk show hosts. And at each debate, Prof. Warren quoted a article or survey at least twice. Here's a quiz:" At Tuesday's debate, how many times will she quote THIS Globe article and others? A. 5X B. 10X C. 15X D. 20 X or more.
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Good lawdie... another Granny Lizzy Warren puff piece by her very own psychobabble propaganda sheet. . . I must say I am very disappointed to see that Mr. Filipov got assigned to this undignified task . . . he is a superb reporter and even better feature writer. . . This kind of crap should be limited to political hackdom chief Johnson and his stable of lemmings. . . One wonders if Lizzy has chosen her press hack in case she has to quit Harvard Law and go pretend to do something besides tread on the party line, like that Tierney guy with the jailbird wife . . .