As I said in my last post, I see Elizabeth Warren as a strong advocate and quite possibly a point person for Hillary to speak to on finance policy during her Administration, but not as a VPOTUS candidate.
I just think that Warren cares about advocating for her strong views on Wall St. and the banks. She's done and will do great work on it-thanks to her we have the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, etc.
But Hillary needs someone willing to advocate for her first and foremost in a VP.
UPDATE: I see me and Paul Waldman agree:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/13/sorry-liberals-elizabeth-warren-isnt-going-to-be-hillary-clintons-running-mate/
As to the rumors that Hillary dislikes Warren or vice versa they aren't true:
"In conversations with other top Democrats and close advisers to Clinton, it’s clear that Warren’s stock is rising. One Clinton adviser, who described himself as part of “Team Warren,” said that the idea had plenty of internal support and that the assumption Clinton doesn’t like Warren personally is incorrect."
“Having been around Hillary when Elizabeth is talked about, there’s not much — she doesn’t have bad feelings toward Elizabeth. It’s more that she’s frustrated that people don’t realize that she’s been championing these issues her whole life, too,” the adviser said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-vice-president_us_5734e8efe4b060aa7819c184
Speaking of which:
"Ylan Q. Mui reports that even with the general election looming, Hillary Clinton isn’t stopping with the liberal stuff:
"Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would support changes to the top ranks of the Federal Reserve, an issue recently championed by progressive groups amid debate over how long the central bank should keep supporting the American economy."
"The Fed is led by a seven-member board of governors based in Washington and a dozen regional bank presidents based across the country, from New York to Kansas City to San Francisco. The governors are nominated by the White House and approved by the Senate, but regional bank presidents are selected by a board of directors with nine seats, whose occupants are chosen by the banking industry and by the Fed governors in Washington."
"In a statement to The Washington Post, Clinton’s campaign said she supports removing bankers from the boards of directors and increasing diversity within the Fed."
It’s almost as if Clinton is a genuine liberal Democrat on most issues."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/12/happy-hour-roundup-857/
This is what gets obscured. If not for Bernie Sanders' run, the word would be about how liberal Hillary's platform really is.
The difference is that she knows how to get her proposals done. Bernie talks about 'Medicare for All'' but has no more of a roadmap for how we get there than he has a path to victory for the nomination.
I just think that Warren cares about advocating for her strong views on Wall St. and the banks. She's done and will do great work on it-thanks to her we have the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, etc.
But Hillary needs someone willing to advocate for her first and foremost in a VP.
UPDATE: I see me and Paul Waldman agree:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/13/sorry-liberals-elizabeth-warren-isnt-going-to-be-hillary-clintons-running-mate/
As to the rumors that Hillary dislikes Warren or vice versa they aren't true:
"In conversations with other top Democrats and close advisers to Clinton, it’s clear that Warren’s stock is rising. One Clinton adviser, who described himself as part of “Team Warren,” said that the idea had plenty of internal support and that the assumption Clinton doesn’t like Warren personally is incorrect."
“Having been around Hillary when Elizabeth is talked about, there’s not much — she doesn’t have bad feelings toward Elizabeth. It’s more that she’s frustrated that people don’t realize that she’s been championing these issues her whole life, too,” the adviser said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-vice-president_us_5734e8efe4b060aa7819c184
Speaking of which:
"Ylan Q. Mui reports that even with the general election looming, Hillary Clinton isn’t stopping with the liberal stuff:
"Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said she would support changes to the top ranks of the Federal Reserve, an issue recently championed by progressive groups amid debate over how long the central bank should keep supporting the American economy."
"The Fed is led by a seven-member board of governors based in Washington and a dozen regional bank presidents based across the country, from New York to Kansas City to San Francisco. The governors are nominated by the White House and approved by the Senate, but regional bank presidents are selected by a board of directors with nine seats, whose occupants are chosen by the banking industry and by the Fed governors in Washington."
"In a statement to The Washington Post, Clinton’s campaign said she supports removing bankers from the boards of directors and increasing diversity within the Fed."
It’s almost as if Clinton is a genuine liberal Democrat on most issues."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/12/happy-hour-roundup-857/
This is what gets obscured. If not for Bernie Sanders' run, the word would be about how liberal Hillary's platform really is.
The difference is that she knows how to get her proposals done. Bernie talks about 'Medicare for All'' but has no more of a roadmap for how we get there than he has a path to victory for the nomination.
She is now talking about opening up Medicare in the kind of way that can do something in the near future, not another Thousand Year Plan of the Emoprogs.
But when she first started running she was criticized for having a platform that is too liberal.
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