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djean111

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8. Well, the knives are out for Warren. It almost seems like an actual primary is not wanted, for some
Wed Nov 12, 2014, 05:23 AM
Nov 2014

reason. Warren will be overtly and subtly vilified, by those who hope to squash her ideas more than herself, and don't realise that the Warren enthusiasm is as much against the corporatist third way thinking, like the TPP. Those who do not like the Clinton form of government now are not going to embrace it, or Hillary, just because Warren mistakenly believed she had some Indian ancestry. The smearing is just old-fashioned political smearing, and I would have thought some people would have learned about that and avoided it, since they themselves have been subjected to it. It is a very RW thing to do, IMO.

I am afraid, though, all we are going to get is the usual campaign blather, pretending to be more populist or progressive, from the Wall Street candidate. What concerns me, through the chorus of "but the liberals LOVE her, look at the polls!!!!" - is that the GOP base hates her with a passion. This will really mobilise them to vote against her, I think.

Already have noticed a whisper of "hey, why hate the TPP? Don't you want to help out our dearest trading partners?".

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