Warren v. Brown
P. Schultz
June 2, 2012
Here is a story about Elizabeth
Warren and that she was spared a fight for the Democratic nomination for
Massachusetts senator to run against Scott Brown. Apparently, she has found “a
new feistiness” and she will not wilt when attacked by Brown. I guess this is
good to know and reassuring but I cannot help but think that if this is all
there is in this choice between Warren and Brown that there isn’t much here at
all. I mean as near as I can tell for the past few weeks, the focus has been on
Warren’s claim or non-claim of some sort of special ethnicity. Really? This is
what a debate between Warren and Brown comes down to? Aren’t there more
important issues that these two have to debate?
And what if there aren’t? Now that
is scary and sad. Warren is billing herself as the person who will help prevent
the Republicans from taking over the US Senate. But what if it doesn’t matter
if the Republicans take it over? Will our foreign policy change? More drone
attacks? Hard to conceive. Guantanamo closed? Don’t think so. Goldman Sachs people
have less influence? Wanna bet.
Oh well: Such is life in our
oligarchy. As things go “down the tubes,” as George Carlin use to say, we worry
about Mitt Romney’s religion, whether Obama was born in Hawaii, or whether
Warren claimed to be a “Native American.” What a country!
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