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Elizabeth Warren: The Republican Vision Is Clear: ‘I’ve Got Mine, the Rest of You Are On Your Own’

Sep. 5, 2012 10:36pm Glenn Hall

Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, came out swinging hard against Republicans in her first speech at a Democratic National Convention.

After declaring that “the system is rigged” against the middle class, Warren directed her attack straight at the GOP: “The Republican vision is clear: ‘I’ve got mine, the rest of you are on your own.’ ”

Elizabeth Warren: The Republican Vision Is Clear: Ive Got Mine, the Rest of You Are On Your Own

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Warren, one of the most lively speakers at the convention Wednesday, warmed up the crowd ahead of the evening’s keynote address by former President Bill Clinton. She has become one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars after being tapped by President Obama to shape the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that emerged as part of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by Obama in 2010 in the wake of the financial collapse that led to the biggest banking bailout in American history.

A victory by Warren in Massachusetts could potentially determine whether the Democrats retain control of the Senate next year. She is facing off against Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who won a 2010 special election over Democrat Martha Coakley to take the seat that had been held by Ted Kennedy for almost 47 years.

Democrats are defending 23 seats in the Senate in this election (compared with 10 GOP seats). They currently control the Senate with 51 outright seats plus 2 independents who tend to vote with them (Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont).

Warren, whose Senate campaign has been plagued by controversies such as the dispute about her alleged status as a native American, didn’t play any defense in her speech. She attacked:

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

“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. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people. And that’s why we need Barack Obama.”

Warren went on to lambaste oil companies for taking subsidies, billionaires for paying lower tax rates than their secretaries and Wall Street CEOs, who she said wrecked the economy and destroyed jobs yet “still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors and acting like we should thank them.”

While Warren pulled no punches, she also offered no evidence to support her claims. She backed up her arguments with anecdotes from her own middle-class upbringing and those of unnamed people she has met, such as a construction worker who was unemployed for nine months, the head of a manufacturing company worried about rising costs and a student struggling to repay college loans.

“I’m here tonight to talk about hard-working people: people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner and help out with homework; people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors, and the lady down the street whose car broke down; people who work their hearts out but are up against a hard truth — the game is rigged against them.”

As she wound down her speech, Warren invoked the memory of Ted Kennedy, who she said understood the call to act and to help each other. She then asked Americans if they are ready to answer that call and she concluded by saying:

“Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I’m ready. You’re ready. America’s ready.”

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teddrunk
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:45pm
“Republican’s want all the wampum. Great dark chief say take it from them, even if you are a lazy brave.”

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 10:14am
  Well I guess Ms Warren felt she was so much on her own she decided to coopt a Native American identity to make herself the first minority staff member at her chosen University@Whocaresville, USA. WHite privilage should have gotten her a job there no problem right…especially way back when when Whites had more clout in their country their forefathers built?
  
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 11:31am
  I used to be able to “share my propserity”. I used to be able to pay someone to clean my house once a week, pay the cleaners on the corner to do my laundry, pay the kid down the street to cut my grass and weed my flower beds. Now I can’t afford to do that. I have no prosperity left to share. If I had to drop these services, I am sure there are scads of others who have had to drop them also.
  
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Searchingforthelight
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:44pm
What I caught of the convention seemed as though they were trying to copy the Republicans and outdo them except for of course with respect to the abortion, free contraceptions. And when they talked about the President thinking of his daughters rather than thinking of donors. I thought, man I am so glad my kids would never consider abortion. I mean, when I think about it, teaching my kids abortion is okay is child abuse. Taking another child’s life, to me, is not a viable option.

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:40pm
Crazy Squaw Warren belongs in a rubber teepee.

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- obfuscatenot
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 6:44am
  Too much! Coffee spew-um! The rubber tee-pee has double use, surely they are wetting themselves at the prospect of NOT sharing our wealth. The peasants are wise to the plan…..if only the village idiots will see the downside and stick with the villagers and not the nobles in the castles! False Indians should become an example! She’s alot like Obama in the “false” category, the ship is going down and she just can’t stop! Ride the swirl, Lizzy!
  
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- 1592
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 7:05am
  She does look a bit insane from time to time.
  
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- SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:51pm
  @1592
  
  That is the understatement of the year. I haven’t watched her in action much, but every time that I have, I was amazed she wasn’t in a straight jacket. Her defense of BO/BS’s “you didn’t build your business” is a portrait of a deranged and unhinged lunatic.
  
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BIGWUN
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:29pm
Behind in new polls. Ugh! Heap Bad!

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- SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 12:00am
  How is she even still in the race???? that is truely mind-boggling.
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 2:53am
  I actually have a hard time with that too except to say it’s Massachusetts. What do you expect? On the plus side, she’s kind of a walking joke and while her crazy liberal district may decide to take her, she alienates much of the rest of the country and makes the Democratic party look bad.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 7:09am
  SITDOWNANDSHUTUP, If you want to truly understand how she is still in the race. I suggest that you visit Massachusetts some time and discuss politics with some of the locals. You’ll swear that you have been talking with Fauxcahontas herself.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:42am
  Circle the wagons, the indian is on the warpath.
  
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chips1
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:27pm
If she is part Indian, then Custer was caught with his pants down. That’s where Clinton got his idea!!!

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noslave
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:22pm
from a full blooded member of the democratic “FUGAWAREWE TRIBE”like wassermann schultz, dickheadd durbin,etc. acting like their on haluctions, they say stuff,then when confronted with the truth,their own words,etc.they act like where the fluke are we??i never said that?? even clinton saying obama may have screwed you for 4 yrs,re-elect him for 4 more??YOU’LL REALLY FEEL IT THIS TIME???IS HE WARNING US??

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- Stoic one
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:40pm
  Well we know Fluke is on her back working for the democrats. warren is claiming she is every minority she can lay her tongue on. and obama wants to plug every hole with his anti American beliefs.
  
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- v15
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:40pm
  The Alinski Amnesia Defense. lol Divide parties down the middle! Confuse your friends! Camouflage partisan rhetoric!
  
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mrprof
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:17pm
These moochers are relentless – Levin is right in saying they are the party of government. They will never relent. Just waiting. Molon Labe.

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:22pm
  You’re right, they will never relent – they are in a living hell.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:12pm
Yes, I agree with her !!!! And I don’t care what she has , and it’s nobody’s business what I have,,,,,,and WE SHOULD ALL BE ON OUR OWN !!!!!!!!! Pursuing happiness………….not pursuing foodstamps……..

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v15
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:07pm
That mescaline-poppin’ Indian with a white lady’s name is having visions again…

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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:03pm
yes, we should all be on our own….Except we have our family, friends, faith, and community. Basically, everything except the federal government

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obxned
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:03pm
Besides being a liar of epic proportions, this poor idiot does not know squat about the way business works. If you are an employee, or an owner, or an invester in a business, what you really, really want is a whole nation full of people with lots of money in their pockets.

People without money make lousy customers!

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:42pm
  As do corporations that are taxed to death. They can’t hire people if they have no money to pay them, nor any to expand the business. Fauxahontas says the game is rigged for middle-class people, but she never explains that part, because it is just a bumper-sticker slogan. She keeps blaming the Wall St. bankers for crashing the system, when she knows damn good and well it was Dodd-Frank and the Democrats who dumped a ton of bad Fanny-Mae and Freddy-Mac loans on them, and by the Cra that Clinton signed and the Democrats pushed (George Bush asked them 13 times to stop) that crashed the market. Obama profitted from this, as well as Chris Dodd, Bwaney Fwank, Franklin Raines, Geithner. It was all a plan to crash the system and get bail-out money that they could steal. Remember, there was no accountability to the TARP funds.
  
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My Two Cents
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:57pm
My personal belief is that I built my business, I earn mine and the rest of you are on your own.

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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:05pm
  A big, centralized government will fail sooner or later no matter who is in charge.
  
  The attempt to force an equal outcome on unique people is impossible to achieve. Not everyone can run microsoft, or perform open heart surgery, or lead this country successfully. Owebama had 4 years, and failed. It is time for a new chance at real change for the better. Romney is qualified. You don’t need to feel a thrill up your leg to use logic, and vote for the only option that might improve America.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:06pm
  Elizabeth Warren=fake, lying- “Indian”, propagandist of the Democratic Party (Communist Party).
  
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yougottabekidding
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:57pm
Do you mean like the loan guarantees to green energy companies that went under which the American tax payers lost. My money that you idiots gave to your supporters and bundlers.

Thank God I’m not watching this idiocy on TV I would not have a TV left!

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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:00pm
  By the way Teddy boy killed a women and got away with it, talk about your war on women!
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:48pm
  I watched/listened….know your enemy – see I enjoy ‘the end’ near future stories. And the end of modern day ROME is at hand; We still have a choice……we must educate those around us and ask them to CHOOSE.
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:56pm
Oh so what. It will all come out in the wash, and some day when the world population plummets, the souls that are the cream of the crop – the oil on top will be the souls born into the world, and will stick a cork on the rest getting born.

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:59pm
  And they’ll keep that genie corked in the bottle.
  
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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:02pm
  But I’ll be here, and all the crap that used to be yours will all be mine.
  
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vanderleun
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:55pm
I believe her new indian name is “Walking Eagle” for Eagle-So-Full-Of-Cr*p-She-Can’t-Fly.”"

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teddrunk
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:52pm
Holding up two hands she’s showing all the number of abortions she’s had.

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- marine249
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:57pm
  I count 10
  
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- teddrunk
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:01pm
  Yup, amazing in a woman as young looking for an octogenarian.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:09pm
  Actually they should use her as their poster child for abortion.
  “See what can happen if you don’t abort”
  
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- teddrunk
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:31pm
  You, good point.
  
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:06am
  I’ve had 2.
  Meh.
  
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- marine249
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:53am
  @ DORA
  sorry.
  
  heres hoping you don’t go for 3 or4.
  
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- teddrunk
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 7:06am
  Only 2 Dora? Good for you. You’re the Democrat’s version of a virgin.
  
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- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 7:06am
  Stay classy Dora. In actuality, after quasi reading most of your crap, that may be a good thing. You lack personal responsibility and a child of yours would be a ward of the state all it’s life.
  
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dealer@678
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:47pm
Romney will win by a landslide. I dont care what injun says

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13th Imam
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:47pm
How

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- DarkJello
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:54pm
  It is bizarre hearing libs go on and on about how great it is to work.
  
  Their laws promote a lifestyle of mediocrity at best. We, the real workers, want America to actually succeed. As in, not the “alternate universe” of Deb Wass Sch the DNC chair. We are America! Not some loonbat and her all heart and little logic fans.
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:11pm
  And “The One” has Never had a real job or employed anyone in a real job.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:20pm
  Well, rumor has it that Obama sold drugs when he stated he was “young and irresponsible.” Now selling drugs on the streets… that’s something the left considers a job… isn’t it ??
  
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- OLDPAINT
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 5:07am
  Crackpot squaw’s vision is about as clear as my ‘horses’ oil after a year of hard riding. Must be at the Pipe for far too long. It’s not the ‘how’; it’s the ‘why’ that’ll kill you.
  
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tarpon
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:46pm
A pile of POW WOW chow to you…

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floridareader
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:45pm
Warren is right, absolutely right: we got our America back and all of you commies go unto looking for another country to mess with.

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johnos69
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:43pm
That is the platform of your party Warren!

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Popp40
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:43pm
PROJECTION………that is the whole democratic party!

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- MAX0O1
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 1:21am
  PROJECTION is a PSYH term and an extremely accurate diagnosis for the DNC.
  RECCOMEND COURT ORDERED INSTITUTIONAL care with heavy doses of TRUTH MEDS
  
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teddrunk
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:43pm
What no war paint? Massachusetts First Squaw.

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Walkabout
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:41pm
Cherokee Liz made it perfectly clear that she was out only for herself when, she made sure she was a double affirmative action candidate for college & for work.

She knew it gave her a big leg up & she used it over & over again.

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nobull14
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:40pm
It sounds like then came Warren has done to many acid trips !!!!!!

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- Walkabout
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:48pm
  Maybe it was peyote. She is 1/32 Cherokee according to her.
  
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- dealer@678
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 10:50pm
  By looking at her eyes it was a lot stronger than acid
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 12:00am
  I thought it was 1/64 or 1/128th……..did not think it was as high as 1/32nd..
  
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- OhSnappage
  Posted on September 6, 2012 at 2:21am
  This loon is as flighty as a dingbat in heat. She is that crazy hippie kid that fried her brain at woodstock that our parents warned us about. Why is crazy so popular with liberals?
  
  That the losers deserve the trophies over the achievers.
  Can one liberal justify a rational thought/explanation for this?
  
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