An excellent letter, Mr. Tucker. Moreover, how cynical of Deval Patrick to be lecturing Obama on how to be a liberal. Patrick has also surrounded himself with advisers who are part of the crony-capitalist establishment, including Romney hang-overs. Patrick knows that corporate tax breaks don't sway business decisions (at least that's what he said when he was first running for office) but he runs a massive corporate-welfare gravy train that costs the state billions of dollars every year -- yet he cannot, just cannot find $160 million to keep the MBTA from implosion. He hires as his Sec. of Housing and Economic Development a real estate lawyer, with known direct financial conflicts on such major issues as casinos and waterfront development, a guy who, when asked why he still champions handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in film tax credits when the state Dept. of Revenue had reported that they are major economic/job losers, responded, "Oh, the film tax! That's just for fun!" In his second campaign, Patrick was running against Charlie Baker -- a Republican whom he had asked to be his running mate in 2005 (http://www.redmassgroup.com/diary/7870/deval-patrick-asked-charlie-baker-to-be-his-running-mate-in-2005). Patrick has drunk the Kool-Aid on "education reform," and is dismantling the public school system; he is advancing charter schools, which are the forerunner of vouchers, and siphoning off public money for privatized schools whose purpose is union-busting, de-professionalization of teaching, and creation of test-score mills rather than places of real learning. Clinton, Obama, Patrick -- much of the Democratic political leadership has "triangulated" over to be the Republican party of yesteryear, instead of standing for what they tell us they believe, thus liberating the conservatives to pander ever more rightward. Democrats are now competing with extreme Republican theocrats on the inclusion of "God" in the political discourse, instead of reminding the nation why the separation of church and state are in the constitution. It was Clinton who signed off on welfare "reform," NAFTA, and the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and Obama is now working out even more free-trade deals and intends to approve the Keystone Pipeline, a certain environmental disaster, to cave in to Republican calls for "American energy independence" and, of course, "job creation" at any cost. If liberals want leaders who will be serious about progressive values, we will have to find a way to hold them accountable, so that they can't take our votes for granted. I think only the threat of a third party will do it; we need some kind of Instant Runoff voting, to give other parties a chance to show what voters would do if they weren't frightened into choosing the "lesser of two evils" but could send a message saying what we really want.

Wasn't  Warren a lawyer for an insurance company to fight  against working people getting their fair share?