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(11,641 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 01:24 PM Mar 2015

Elizabeth Warren, Sept 5th 2012 at the Dem National Convention: "The Game Is Rigged"

Plenty of centrist Dems suggesting Elizabeth Warren needs to tone it down.

A huge problem with that line of thinking is that the GOP politicians never have and never will.

Here's a blast from the past to remind us of why people are talking about Elizabeth Warren A WHOLE LOT:


Elizabeth Warren: ‘The game is rigged’

By Amy Gardner September 5, 2012


Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts, sharply criticized the Republican Party, millionaires and corporate leaders in a prime-time speech to the Democratic National Convention Tuesday, accusing them of denying a level playing field to the middle class...

~Snip~

“Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends,” Warren said. “After all, Mitt Romney's the guy who said corporations are people.”

Warren added: “No, Gov. Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.”

The hall erupted in chants of "Warren, Warren, Warren" before she spoke a word. Delegates cheers and thundered as she made the case that President Obama would use a second term to protect and restore the strength of the middle class by, among other things, investing in education and roads and bridges and by protecting the agencies that police corporations and help consumers...

Full article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/09/05/elizabeth-warren-the-game-is-rigged/


Full speech from Sept 5th 2012 at the Democratic National Convention:

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Elizabeth Warren, Sept 5th 2012 at the Dem National Convention: "The Game Is Rigged" (Original Post) think Mar 2015 OP
Angry rhetoric that we need a lot more of. Autumn Mar 2015 #1
I like her tone! AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #2
 

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)
2. I like her tone!
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 02:53 PM
Mar 2015

The Clinton Camp has launched a tag-team misogynistic attack against Elizabeth today because they are afraid of her. And they should be afraid.

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