Well, it only took two days to see what we are in for for the next six years (“Warren holds back with reporters,” Page A1, Nov. 9).
Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren took the low road in her first press conference.
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Good grief, you are a very sore loser.
Elizabeth Warren was probably just plain exhausted. If you had seen her hearings in Washington you'd know just how articulate she was.
Testifying at a hearing in Washington is reading from a pre-prepared script. If you looked closer at the hearings you would have seen her fumble around when the questions started. She is going to be talk radio fodder for the next six years.
It has been said that politicians campaign in poetry, but govern in prose. Unfortunately, Senator Warren’s poetry consisted of a few well-worn cliches all about working to protect “middle-class working families.” The demands of campaigning limited her to just a few brief sound-bites such as this; the good news is that it worked and helped her to get elected. Now she has to leave the safety of a few memorized quotes, however sincere, and make a shift to much broader dialog. I believe that she has the intellectual capacity to express herself quite effectively, once she masters the prosaic demands of serving in the Senate.
Sour grapes don't look good on anybody. Warren was available to run because the Wall Street types who support Scott Brown were terrified of her. She won because she had something other than vaguely worded attacks on her opponent's family to build her campaign on.