I was offended by Brian McGrory’s column “A woman of few words” (Metro, Nov. 12). I am an ardent Elizabeth Warren supporter, not because of her glamour or lack thereof, but because of her values. She is a novice politician, but I trust her to represent me well when she heads to Washington in January.
It is unfair to discredit her for failing to give a stellar performance in front of reporters shortly after an exhausting campaign. It’s time for us to accept our politicians as the human beings they are, and learn to judge them by how they vote and what they stand for, rather than by how charismatic they are in public.
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Warren can win one playing the victimnd play that part for a while but at some point or other even her most sycophantic supporters will begin to expect at least somethign from her. Still early for that I see.
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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.
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Given how feckless and spineless our political media have been here in Massachusetts and nationaly, I think it's actually a good thing that the Senator-Elect chose not to play with them last week.