David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elizabeth-warren-2020-presidential-run-1.4962137
Elizabeth Warren takes big step toward launching 2020 presidential run
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Roderick Wilson
Based on the information she
provide, Elizabeth Warren was named as the “first woman of colour” to be
a Professor at Harvard Law in 1997. A distinction she wore proudly. - I
guess with the progressives race is now like gender, science, DNA,
physiology are to be ignored, just claim to be whatever you want.
Angus Campbell
@Roderick Wilson
and again is this all you can come up with?
and again is this all you can come up with?
Cal Mett
@Angus Campbell That is all.
Roderick Wilson
@Angus Campbell - That would start a half a million strong protest march if she were a Republican.
Jeff Laidlaw
@Roderick Wilson Yeah, those poor Republicans. Always the victims.
Roderick Wilson
@Jeff Laidlaw As oppoded to Democrats whose racism and me too faults are deemed “irrelevant” by other Democrats.
Erin Wilson
@Roderick Wilson
Nice up vote software.
Nice up vote software.
Steve Smith
@Roderick Wilson
The color is pasty white with a touch of old lady grandmother.
The color is pasty white with a touch of old lady grandmother.
Steve Smith
@Angus Campbell
Sorry, he's not making it up it's the truth. You could actually look it up if you wanted to.
Sorry, he's not making it up it's the truth. You could actually look it up if you wanted to.
David Amos
@Roderick Wilson Methinks
that Iggy and many other Canadain politicians know that Elizabeth Warren
and all her cohorts in Harvard Law knew why I sued Cardinal Bernard
Francis Law, 3 US Treasury Agents, many Yankee lawyers and their
Attorney General long before I ran in the election of the 38th
Parliament N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@David Amos These documents and many more have been in many people's files and in several court dockets since June of 2004
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
Billie-Bob Brown
@Roderick Wilson
Trump said "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian," Trump said. "I have a feeling she will say no but hold it for the debates.".
Warren had the test done and it confirm that she had a Native American ancestor.
Trump refused to not honor his offer (even claimed he never made it).
No surprise. Trump has proven himself to be a dishonorable President.
Yet his loyal fans continue to believe things he makes up.
Trump said "I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian," Trump said. "I have a feeling she will say no but hold it for the debates.".
Warren had the test done and it confirm that she had a Native American ancestor.
Trump refused to not honor his offer (even claimed he never made it).
No surprise. Trump has proven himself to be a dishonorable President.
Yet his loyal fans continue to believe things he makes up.
Sara Shepard
@Roderick Wilson - She never
pretended to be Native American to get into Harvard, but Trump
pretended to have bone spurs to get out of something.
William Perry
@Roderick Wilson
The truth shall set you free Mr. Wilson !!
https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526
The truth shall set you free Mr. Wilson !!
https://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/fordham-piece-called-warren-harvard-laws-first-woman-of-color-123526
Art Rowe
@Billie-Bob Brown
Forget the "president" part, he is simply dishonorable!
Forget the "president" part, he is simply dishonorable!
john carter
I'd give Warren, odds of let's say one in one thousand and twenty four, of becoming President.
john carter
I'd give Warren, odds of let's say one in one thousand and twenty four, of becoming President.
@john carter
Carlos Bustamante, a prominent Stanford University geneticist and MacArthur fellow, led the analysis, so it’s far more likely to be accurate than direct-to-consumer DNA tests that sometimes botch results. He concludes that though Warren is mostly European, “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor” six to 10 generations ago. This could support Warren’s claims, though if her ancestor is fully 10 generations back, she would be only 1/1024th Native American, a fact that critics would love to emphasize.
Carlos Bustamante, a prominent Stanford University geneticist and MacArthur fellow, led the analysis, so it’s far more likely to be accurate than direct-to-consumer DNA tests that sometimes botch results. He concludes that though Warren is mostly European, “the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor” six to 10 generations ago. This could support Warren’s claims, though if her ancestor is fully 10 generations back, she would be only 1/1024th Native American, a fact that critics would love to emphasize.
Mark Johnston
@john carter - Well since
1900 a sitting president has only 5 times for reelection. So the odds
are in your favour for sure. But I've learned after the last US
election predicting outcomes aren't that easy. Do some research, she's
pretty intelligent.
Mark Johnston
@Roger Deveries - What does
that matter? How cares? Did she say she was 100% native American did
she say she wasn't? Don't let this derail important topics. That's the
job of the media.
Mark Johnston
*has only (lost) 5 times for reelection.
Mark Johnston
^*who cares
Fred Ashlton
@Roger Deveries
Sheeesh Putin probably has a higher percentage than she does
Sheeesh Putin probably has a higher percentage than she does
Fred Ashlton
@Mark Johnston
If she was intelligent - she wouldn't have let Hilarity run for Pres
If she was intelligent - she wouldn't have let Hilarity run for Pres
Mark Johnston
@Fred Ashlton - Honestly
Hilary was the Democrats best chance at winning. If she didn't run
people would have said "we would have won if Hilary was in the race"
Roderick Wilson
@Mark Johnston - She listed
herself as Native American with Harvard. She did the same with many
other organizations. When tests prove she is 0.03% Native American then
her claims are clearly false.
david mccaig
@john carter
46 year old Texas Democrat upstart Beto O'Rourke, the guy that reminds us so much odd Bobby Kennedy, raised 62 million dollars in his run to defeat incumbent Ted Cruz and he nearly did it, plus his youthful enthusiasm helped democrats win hard core Texas Republican jurisdictions. He's the ONLY democratic presidential candidate that could deliver the South and a massive 3 house presidential win.
46 year old Texas Democrat upstart Beto O'Rourke, the guy that reminds us so much odd Bobby Kennedy, raised 62 million dollars in his run to defeat incumbent Ted Cruz and he nearly did it, plus his youthful enthusiasm helped democrats win hard core Texas Republican jurisdictions. He's the ONLY democratic presidential candidate that could deliver the South and a massive 3 house presidential win.
david mccaig
@david mccaig
And Beto O'Rourke is a hard core social liberal, which for Americans means universal healthcare, free public college education, the restoration of all the government protection agencies devastated by the radical right wing suits standing behind Trump. And meaningful significant climate action and green energy ushering out planet harming oil industry.
And Beto O'Rourke is a hard core social liberal, which for Americans means universal healthcare, free public college education, the restoration of all the government protection agencies devastated by the radical right wing suits standing behind Trump. And meaningful significant climate action and green energy ushering out planet harming oil industry.
Stanley Baird
@david mccaig I doubt a
majority of US voters would support this agenda - do you? World wide
there is currently push back to most climat change policies,
William Perry
@john carter
You are most probably correct unfortunately . Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want what's best for ALL Americans like Medicare for all with preexisting conditions covered. We are very lucky to live in a country with a health plan that is not 100% perfect but covers all of us. Americans in general do not want what we already have in the way of medical care. The young think that they are invincible right up until they find out that they are not.
You are most probably correct unfortunately . Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want what's best for ALL Americans like Medicare for all with preexisting conditions covered. We are very lucky to live in a country with a health plan that is not 100% perfect but covers all of us. Americans in general do not want what we already have in the way of medical care. The young think that they are invincible right up until they find out that they are not.
Art Rowe
@john carter
However the BIG BIG question remains unanswered, ""What are your thoughts on walls or fences""?
Seriously, just kidding.
However the BIG BIG question remains unanswered, ""What are your thoughts on walls or fences""?
Seriously, just kidding.
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David Amos
David Amos
@john carter Methinks everybody knows that I consider Warren to be just another corrupt Yankee lawyer N'esy Pas?
Elizabeth Warren takes big step toward launching 2020 presidential run
Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is only Democrat so far to have formally announced campaign
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took
the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for
the U.S. presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter
will help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two
dozen candidates.
"No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing," the 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat said in a video that highlights her family's history in Oklahoma. "To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That's what I'm fighting for and that's why today I'm launching an exploratory committee for president."
She elaborated on the theme to reporters outside her Massachusetts home.
"America's middle class is getting hollowed out and opportunity for too many of our young people is shrinking," she said. "So I'm in this fight all the way. Right now Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. It's just not working for anyone else."
Warren burst onto the national scene a decade ago during the financial crisis with calls for greater consumer protections. She quickly became one of the party's more prominent liberals even as she sometimes fought with Obama administration officials over their response to the market turmoil.
Now, as a likely presidential contender, she is making an appeal to the party's base. Her video notes the economic challenges facing people of colour along with images of a women's march and Warren's participation at an LGBT event.
In an email to supporters, Warren said she would announce a campaign plan more formally in early 2019.
Warren
is the most prominent Democrat yet to make a move toward a presidential
bid and has long been a favourite target of U.S. President Donald
Trump.
In mid-December, former Obama housing chief Julian Castro also announced a presidential exploratory committee, which legally allows potential candidates to begin raising money. Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is the only Democrat so far to have formally announced a presidential campaign.
But that's likely to change quickly in the new year as other leading Democrats take steps toward White House runs.
Warren aims to enter a Democratic field that's shaping up as the most crowded in decades, with many of her Senate colleagues openly weighing their own campaigns, as well as governors, mayors and other prominent citizens. One of her most significant competitors could be Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who is eyeing another presidential run harnessing the same populist rhetoric.
She must also move past a widely panned October release of a DNA test meant to bolster her claim to native American heritage. The move was intended to rebut Trump's taunts of Warren as "Pocahontas." Instead, her use of a genetic test to prove ethnicity spurred controversy that seemed to blunt any argument she sought to make. There was no direct mention of it in the video released Monday.
Warren
has the benefit of higher name recognition than many others in the
Democratic mix for 2020, thanks to her years as a prominent critic of
Wall Street who originally conceived of what became the government's
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She now faces an arduous battle to raise money and capture Democratic primary voters' attention before Iowa casts its first vote in more than a year. She has an advantage in the $12.5 million US left over from her 2018 re-election campaign that she could use for a presidential run.
Warren's campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she has woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.
"America's middle class is under attack," Warren said in the video. "How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice."
"No matter what our differences, most of us want the same thing," the 69-year-old Massachusetts Democrat said in a video that highlights her family's history in Oklahoma. "To be able to work hard, play by the same set of rules and take care of the people we love. That's what I'm fighting for and that's why today I'm launching an exploratory committee for president."
"America's middle class is getting hollowed out and opportunity for too many of our young people is shrinking," she said. "So I'm in this fight all the way. Right now Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected. It's just not working for anyone else."
Warren burst onto the national scene a decade ago during the financial crisis with calls for greater consumer protections. She quickly became one of the party's more prominent liberals even as she sometimes fought with Obama administration officials over their response to the market turmoil.
Now, as a likely presidential contender, she is making an appeal to the party's base. Her video notes the economic challenges facing people of colour along with images of a women's march and Warren's participation at an LGBT event.
In an email to supporters, Warren said she would announce a campaign plan more formally in early 2019.
In mid-December, former Obama housing chief Julian Castro also announced a presidential exploratory committee, which legally allows potential candidates to begin raising money. Outgoing Maryland Rep. John Delaney is the only Democrat so far to have formally announced a presidential campaign.
But that's likely to change quickly in the new year as other leading Democrats take steps toward White House runs.
Sanders eyeing run
Warren aims to enter a Democratic field that's shaping up as the most crowded in decades, with many of her Senate colleagues openly weighing their own campaigns, as well as governors, mayors and other prominent citizens. One of her most significant competitors could be Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who is eyeing another presidential run harnessing the same populist rhetoric.
She must also move past a widely panned October release of a DNA test meant to bolster her claim to native American heritage. The move was intended to rebut Trump's taunts of Warren as "Pocahontas." Instead, her use of a genetic test to prove ethnicity spurred controversy that seemed to blunt any argument she sought to make. There was no direct mention of it in the video released Monday.
She now faces an arduous battle to raise money and capture Democratic primary voters' attention before Iowa casts its first vote in more than a year. She has an advantage in the $12.5 million US left over from her 2018 re-election campaign that she could use for a presidential run.
Warren's campaign is likely to revolve around the same theme she has woven into speeches and policy proposals in recent years: battling special interests, paying mind to the nexus between racial and economic inequities.
"America's middle class is under attack," Warren said in the video. "How did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice."
With files from Reuters
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