blatham
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 12:12 pm
Quote:
one blissfully unaware of the limits of her own understanding.
This poster remaining silent.
edgarblythe
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 12:15 pm
@blatham,
George ob1 is pretty close on this point.
RABEL222
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 12:41 pm
@snood,
She has to be very stupid if she disagrees with George.
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Olivier5
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 12:43 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

I don't think it's much of a surprise to anyone that Wall St does not want Warren in the White House. [...] her expertise in this area. And they know she's not a quitter and will be a formidable opponent.

Yes to all this. In any case this opposition from Wall Street is good news for Warren, at least short term. As is the Ukraine story, in that it embarasses both Trump and Biden.
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revelette1
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 02:11 pm
@blatham,
Wink
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blatham
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 03:01 pm
@edgarblythe,
No, he isn't. He is in fact being precisely what I quoted him as indicting her for. Neither he, nor you, nor I can come close to matching her intelligence, learning, and experience in these issues.
Quote:
Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former academic serving as the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts since 2013. She was formerly a law school professor specializing in bankruptcy law. A member of the Democratic Party and a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate.

Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School and has taught law at several universities, including the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. She was one of the most influential professors in the field of commercial law before beginning her political career. She has authored five and coauthored six books.

Warren's initial foray into public policy began in 1995 when she worked to oppose what eventually became a 2005 act restricting bankruptcy access for individuals. Her national profile rose during the late 2000s following her forceful public stances in favor of more stringent banking regulations following the 2007–08 financial crisis. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and was instrumental in the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, of which she served as the first Special Advisor under President Obama.
wikipedia
blatham
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 03:23 pm
Re Sanders' medical issue...

This is the same procedure I had (insertion of two stents after a heart attack). Not a big deal. But he'll be off his feet for a while and he'll have to take it easy. Not a good time for this to happen though.
edgarblythe
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 03:55 pm
@blatham,
I accept it on different grounds. I think if she gets elected she will play ball with many of those she presently wants to go after.
snood
 
  2  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 03:58 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:

I accept it on different grounds. I think if she gets elected she will play ball with many of those she presently wants to go after.


A suspicion based on...

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Lash
 
  0  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 04:38 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Trump has pulled in more money than Sanders (or any Dem candidate) recently. But that fact doesn't tell us anything about how he's polling.

It would if his average donation was $18.
That a lot of dedicated voters.
hingehead
 
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Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 04:39 pm
@blatham,
How old were you at the time?
blatham
 
  2  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 05:12 pm
@Lash,
That's a fair point. However, your claim that multiple pollsters are lying in order to damage Sanders' reputation is as irrational as Trump's claims that they are doing so to him. Were they lying when his numbers were much better?
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blatham
 
  1  
Reply Wed 2 Oct, 2019 05:16 pm
@hingehead,
Good point. I was considerably younger. Still, I wouldn't consider this event a disqualifying factor for Sanders. Which is not to say that his age isn't relevant.
revelette1
 
  1  
Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 06:47 am
@blatham,
I wonder what that is like? When they checked my heart, they decided to start me on medicine first. I am now up five different heart prescriptions, plus an infusion thing. The last prescription they gave me seems to have done the trick. So I thought to myself, why not go a day or two without some of the others... Well, I had begun to feel pressure again. It seems the last one is part of a series or something. I just wonder if it might have been cheaper (not all of them are covered) to have a stint put in.

Sorry, just wondered and thought you might know something.
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revelette1
 
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Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 06:50 am
I don't know about breaking up businesses. (don't understand it really) The rest of Warren's proposals I agree with. Also, more importantly for our democracy, wish there was some serious lobbying reform with new laws made to cement it.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 07:13 am
@blatham,
Biden and Warren not being spring chickens, I think in this election age should not be a main consideration.
blatham
 
  1  
Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 07:30 am
@edgarblythe,
Not main, I agree. But not irrelevant.
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engineer
 
  3  
Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 07:50 am
@edgarblythe,
But if it is a consideration, there are other options on the stage besides the big three.
revelette1
 
  1  
Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 11:26 am
@engineer,
As a matter of curiosity who would you pick? The rest of them have very low numbers spread around between them.
georgeob1
 
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Reply Thu 3 Oct, 2019 11:33 am
I suspect that Sander's candidacy prospects are now effectively gone. His support appears to have been slowly moving over to Warren, and the recent coronary episode will significantly further weaken the prospects as an electable candidate within the Democrat Party. Biden appears also to be continuing his slide, perhaps driven by many factors notably including the increasing odor of corruption attending his actions to promote the financial status of his rather unsavory son.

If so this leaves Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the likely Democrat nominee. I suspect she will do about as well as did Sen. George McGovern in 1972.
 

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