Couldn't have said it better myself...

Michale.....

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154283-136EC5F7000005DC-624_634x454.jpg

"That's just disturbing...."
-Patrick Warburton, M&M Commercial

:D

Michale.....

Not knowing how to be a politician is a PLUS in my book...

It's why I voted for Obama. I thought he wasn't a politician..

Turns out he was THE politician of politicians...

Color me embarrassed... :^/

Michale.....

It's a despicable position for the Republicans, of course. It used to be that white people with some Native American ancestry were expected to lie about it. There was a clear hierarchy in the status of different groups, and that status mattered. Almost everyone had someone below them, to feel as though they were better than: not so much win-win, as win-win-win-win-lose. That's part of "The Good Old Days", the kind of world the Republicans want to take us back to.

It's smart politics, because the "win"s vastly outnumber the "lose"s, and appealing to people's worse nature is so much easier than appealing to their better nature. Of course, it's really not much of a win to be worse off just because you have someone clearly below you to look down on. But the way identity politics plays, it counts as one.

Competent politicians know that, and know how to deal with it.

Interesting analysis of the Wisconsin Recall campaign..

Yea, I know. It's biased. But the facts are fascinating, nonetheless...

Michale.....

The vast majority of voters (72 percent) said the issue would not affect their vote, but 31 percent of self-described independents - a critical voting bloc - said the issue makes them less likely to support Warren in November.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-02/news/31987873_1_poll-democratic-senate-warren-campaign

Michale.....

When you condemn such practices in others, it goes to character..

It's like being a Wall Street Banker by day and an Oowzer protestor at night..

Hypocrisy..

not remembering what ethnicity you put on an employment form twenty years ago? warren is obviously being amateurish as a politician, because a more skilled political team would flush those lame attacks like the dead goldfish they are.

Once again, it's not that Warren forgot what ethnicity she put down. It's the fact that when it suited her needs to be a native American, Warren was a native American..

If she had been saying she was a native American her entire life, that would have been fine.

But it seems she was only a native American when it suited her purposes to be a native American..

Again, it goes to character.. Or lack thereof.

The voters will have the final say as to it's relevance.. And I think they will show this by making Scott Brown's campaign as successful as it was against Coakley...

I agree with you on the hypocrisy of the Right. Like the Left, they are throwing everything up against the wall to see what sticks...

Michale.....

flipping houses? really? oh, the horror! but seriously? flipping houses for profit? not remembering what ethnicity you put on an employment form twenty years ago? warren is obviously being amateurish as a politician, because a more skilled political team would flush those lame attacks like the dead goldfish they are.

personally i'm surprised you didn't go after the really juicy bit:

Last week, Obama was Wall Street's enemy, and he "didn't understand capitalism." This week, he's now Wall Street's puppet. In a rational world, this would not make sense. I mean, he can't be both, fer cryin' out loud!

and yet, it seems like that's exactly what the president himself is trying to be... wall street's toughest cop and bestest buddy, at the same time. to be honest, the republicans are mucking it up royally. they are tripping over themselves trying to decide which obama to criticize, when the answer is obvious, both! meanwhile their own guy would continue to peddle soylent inc... if he could spell it. corporations are peeeepull! they're peeeepullll!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LHetPeE-sc4/TkSHQcV5ZYI/AAAAAAAAIGk/lxX83uo2fg8/soylent-green-mitt.jpg

I think Warren doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected dog catcher...

Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as “flipping” properties, records show.

A Herald review has found that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate rapidly bought and sold homes herself, loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices.
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1061136010

This Senate Seat appears to be safely in Republican hands...

Michale

Michale....