Hey everyone,
The full LeftAhead team was on board today — Mike, Lynne and I — to interview our special guest, Elizabeth Warren. All three of us had high expectations of Warren coming in and she certainly met them, mixing in her unique talents in tackling difficult subjects in a personable way that everyone can understand.
As she says, she’s spent decades looking at the major problems facing Middle Class America and she knows her stuff. We covered everything from the economy to jobs to health care to the cost of college, all tied together in the theme of how we can make the Middle Class work.
We also covered the mixed GOP claims that she’s either the Harvard elitist or Oklahoman hick, neither claim frightens her or has meaning. Just spending a half hour talking with her, you can tell that she’s benefited from being in both worlds and has never lost sight of her past in the “ragged edges of the middle class.”
The faux memes of the right contrast well with the hope she’s inspired among many people across the Commonwealth and country as a whole. She sees these people as the key to not only get elected, but what’s necessary to push through the reform needed in government to make America work for the Middle Class again.
Here’s the player:
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To anyone who hasn’t listened, please do – Elizabeth Warren is in our corner.
It was an interesting interview and I liked what I heard, but nobody asks her what her civil rights priorities are if she indeed had any. Clearly civil rights aren’t a priority for her since she hasn’t listed them on her website. Is Elizabeth Warren pro-equality? If so, will she be a leader or a follower? We still don’t know.
When he was first elected, he voted for marriage equality on the floor of the Mass. House of Representatives. This was a switch for our district, because he defeated a Republican representative who had voted against marriage-quality.
He voted against allowing marriage equality to go on the ballot.
The SJC of Massachusetts was the authority that allowed marriage equality; the legislature had the task of preventing it from reaching the ballot. Still a notably achievement and I’m glad Tom voted against it, but I don’t think that vote in particular should have much bearing on this race as all the Democrats support marriage equality and oppose DOMA.
she is in favor of equal marriage rights.
Or rather, it implies to me that she’ll at best be a follower. Not impressive.
I’d also like to hear from her own lips that she understands that LGBT civil rights don’t begin and end with marriage equality. We LGBTs are still in grave need of federal anti-discrimination protections in employment, housing, credit etc., and that’s just for starters. If she thinks she’s addressed LGBT civil rights need by talking only about marriage equality, then it’s clear that she has no clue what legal issues face LGBT people.
Embedded player doesn’t work for me. I just get a little red message that says “playlist error”
Works OK for me.
I’ve had some trouble with the embeds coming from BTR lately; they changed the player a little bit and I think gave it some occasional hiccups.
If it’s not working, there’s the link to LeftAhead.com you can follow, or you can go straight to the source at BlogTalkRadio.com/lefties
Is a transcript available for deaf and hard-of-hearing readers?
I’m sorry. We don’t have transcripts. Our service charges big bucks for that capability.
Mike