Elizabeth Warren keeps saying "I am not running". She is absolutely not ruling it out. She does not say never.
When you juxtapose what she said a couple months ago with "Big doors might open", let's not assume Elizabeth Warren has shut the door.
Hillary Clinton is a Wall Street Corporatist Democrat. We can't afford more corporatism.
http://www.people.com/...
"I don't think so," she tells PEOPLE in an interview conducted at Warren's Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for this week's issue. "If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open."
She has been critical of both Hillary Clinton and Obama.
Warren understands professional politics and numerous politicians have said "I am not running" before changing their mind slowly. There is a reason why she has not said "I am NEVER going to run"
It is still a tall proposition that she will run in the end and if she doesn't, fine. Let's look to other alternatives. But I really do not think we should dismiss Warren outright and therefore work as hard as possible to provide her the most energy and support needed to run.
This is Elizabeth Warren's moment. It is now or never. Even if Hillary runs, Warren does have a chance. Numerous progressive groups, Hollywood, and the people will run to her genuine non-corporatist message. Her citibank speech shows she CAN inspire the masses and cut through all the 1% bullshit that has divided us for so long.
She can connect with Obama's base when she talked about how the bailouts especially hurt African American and Hispanic communities. She knows what she is doing.
Elizabeth Warren as president is much more powerful than a senator of the minority party now.
Hillary Clinton is a hawk and for Keystone. She has dodged questions on the immigration debate and has goldman sachs contributions already. Barack Obama has said himself that "Hillary will not agree with him on all the issues". It is so obvious we should not blindly support her.
I hate the idea of blind support of Hillary Clinton. It does not make sense for the Front Pagers and Howard Dean to support a known corporatist (even though we have been vitrolic critics of Obama's corporatism). We all should be drafting and encouraging Warren to run and write diaries challenging Hillary Clinton.
I will never vote for a republican and I will never vote third party. But blindly supporting corporatists like Hillary Clinton would be disastrous. Look what happened when blind support to Bush's Iraq war went through (via Democrats and Republicans and their interests bullying us to sit down and shut up).
Anyone getting on "Hillary for 2016" and saying that Elizabeth Warren has shut the door and that we should sit down and shut up for Hillary, really should be careful on how they approach progressives who aren't ready to support her at this time (like myself).
http://www.bostonglobe.com/...
Many Democrats still flock to Clinton. More than 80 percent said they would support her in a presidential bid, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. But 71 percent of all voters surveyed said they want the next president to take a different approach to the White House.
http://www.examiner.com/...
According to the new poll, Clinton has the support of a majority of Democrats and Democratic leaning independents, but much less than before with only 61 percent. At second place, is the perennial runner-up Vice President Joe Biden with only 14 percent, but Warren's lead is growing now she tailgates Biden with 13 percent of support. In June, Clinton had 69 percent of support in the same poll. In total, Clinton lost 10 percent from her margin this past year alone, mostly losing the support to Warren. Warren has gain six points since June, while ABC News notes there has been no movement surrounding Biden. Warren insists she is not running, but her denials are getting less convincing.