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Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts senator who has built a
political career on denouncing banking titans and financial
sophisticates who make a buck off the little guy. Turns out, she is, or was, one of "them," during the days she was building her own personal wealth empire.
Warren bought and sold at least five properties for profit at a
different time in her life, before the cratering economy and a political
career made her a star.
Her life story has been the subject of much
interest, and her 2014 memoir, A Fighting Chance, chronicled her rise
from humble beginnings in small-town Oklahoma and her struggle to make
ends meet. It didn’t much mention, though, the early 1990s, years when
her children were teenagers and she was once again happily married.
These are years when she wasn’t yet the multimillionaire she is today,
and, she has said, she was voting Republican.
As a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and later as a
visiting professor at Harvard Law School, she was doing well for
herself, building both her professional profile and her wealth.
She owes
at least part of her considerable financial success, it seems, to
snapping up properties in her native Oklahoma and turning them for
a profit — though today that’s not a practice she endorses for the many
people looking to emulate her success. The Boston Herald reported on
these purchases during Warren’s Senate run in 2012, noting that she
invested in “the often topsy-turvy real-estate market of the 1990s” and
that her actions “don’t seem to square with her public statements about
the latest real estate boom and bust.”
In the end, this newest of Marxist/Progressive heroes, is no better than the folks in Big Banking, she is fond of criticizing.
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Article text from the National Review and the editor of Midknight Review.
Someone put it this way: "Hillary and her campaign are a large balloon floating around in search of a pin."
ReplyDeleteThat pin will be Warren, who in 2016 will be 67 years old. It is now-or-never time for her to run. If she defers, as she now claims to be doing, it is unlikely she gets another shot at the White House. Her moment — and the stars — align now for her to puncture that Clinton balloon with precisely the issue that Warren understands: Hillary and Bill Clinton have sold their money-grubbing souls to Wall Street. The left wing of the Democratic Party — those who attend the Iowa caucus and vote in snowy New Hampshire in February — will choose Warren over Hillary Clinton.
If the polls keep showing Hillary in a tight race with the Right, if the sandals continue and grow, if she cannot connect with "the folks," the tide will turn against Hillary. If Warren gets in the race, expect that to happen before the end of the year. The Left will want to see if Hillary can advance her campaign. Understand this, the Left must win this election. If it loses the presidential race and cannot retake the Senate, the Progressive agenda will have been defeated. I do believe that Anonymous is right: For Warren, it is now or never.
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